The Browning B25 shotgun is, by any stretch of the imagination, an icon. Search the Internet for such arcane topics as “Ten Best Shotguns Ever Made” or similar, and the B25 (called the Browning Superposed in the USA) will almost certainly make any such list encountered in cyberspace. Similarly, look at the lists of the major auction houses in the UK and USA, and you will note that B25s in good condition, particularly higher-grade, engraved guns, command excellent prices.
Although no longer in regular production, the B25 certainly has alot going for it. It was not only John Moses Browning’s last design but was also the first mass-production over/under gun, with the first examples being sold only a few short years before World War II. Although built from machine-made components, it was lovingly assembled and finished by hand by skilled workers in the Fabrique Nationale (FN) factory in Liege, Belgium, with whom Browning contracted to manufacture the B25 up to the early 1970s. Lastly, the B25 has a reputation as a very well-balanced gun that is reliable to a fault and handles extremely well. Thus, it is not difficult to see why the B25
