Browning 525 SL
MANUFACTURERS often undertake cosmetic exercises with long-established models but the test Browning 525 ‘SL’ Sporter is more than that. Its most obvious feature is its new, rather blue, laminate stock. This makes it quite heavy – 8lb plus – but it also makes it stable as well as aesthetically striking. The gun has a plain, coin-finished action with minimum embellishment. There is no decorative engraving with just the model name and Browning logo in black (black paint fills into shallow, probably lasered, recesses on the action wall and fore-end iron).
The SL has an adjustable, ‘Pro-Fit’ stock with a comb (which may
