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mrclark | profile | all galleries >> RESTORATION PROJECTS >> BROWNING 1919 A4 .30 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

BROWNING 1919 A4 .30

Picked this up a few years ago and it was in rough shape.

It was scratched up pretty bad and I did not have access to a sandblaster or parkerising solution at the time.

So I tried something else.

1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Barrel before
1919A4 Barrel before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Barrel
1919A4 Barrel
1919A4 Barrel
1919A4 Barrel		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before
Tripod
Tripod		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 Tripod
Tripod		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before
1919A4 Before		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP
SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP
SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP
BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING
SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP
SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP		 SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP SECOND COATING
SCRATCHES TOUCHED UP SECOND COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING		 BARREL FIRST COATING
BARREL FIRST COATING
FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 Comparison before and after
Comparison before and after		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT		 FINISHED PRODUCT
FINISHED PRODUCT
Comparison before and after
Comparison before and after		 COMPLETE
COMPLETE

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ratman 09-Mar-2009 16:14
Hello
Can you do me a favour and send on ratman1809@o2.pl main external dimensions of this gun (only gun = not tripod esecially barel lengh ad diameters).
I try to find it in internet but "uncle google" doesn't help :P
Christian 24-Aug-2007 13:19
Unfortunately we had a magazine for it (I`m not sure what one - 20 or 40 round), that we lent to a "friend" that also had a ZB26 (without a magazine). This "friend" sold his gun with our magazine. So far, I have no magazine for it.

Last month, i bought another Browning 1919 (.308 Win.), and a Browning M2 .50 BMG (new!). The guy who I bought it from has another 3 for sale (one anti-aircraft, one is watercooled, and the other, is an original prototipe with 3 diferent barrel/cooling units (three in one!). I am hoping to by the others soon.
In Brazil, there are only 13 registered .50 caliber machineguns in the hands of civilians.
One is mine!
gpmg60@hotmail.com 28-Mar-2007 04:03
Christian, Did your father have any 7*57 40 round magazines or 20 round magazines with the ZB26? I'm looking for the 40 round magazines for a project.
Christian 15-Aug-2006 22:02
Very good job!

The work you have done on your guns has inspired me to restore a couple of mine own.

I to own a Browning 1919A4, and a Czech ZB26 (very similar to the Bren), in 7x57mm caliber, that my father acquired a few years ago at an auction done by the Brazilian army, when they where getting rid of their old armament.

I own a couple of old Hotchkiss machineguns, in 7x57mm, that where also used by the army, several years ago, here in Brazil.

Anyway, after seeing your splendid work, I am starting to think about “reviving” a couple of my guns, which need it.

Ps.: Unfortunately the old guns owned by the army, are no longer auctioned, due to some new “politically correct” laws that us, Brazilian firearm owners are having to put up with.
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