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Browning B725 Hunter G1 shotgun review

A study in evolution, the new game gun from Browning is pointable, reliable and pleasing to the eye - and it performed well.

Browning B725 Hunter G1 shotgun review
ShootingUK
ShootingUK 10 April 2012

In those days, most over-unders were beautifully hand built, complex and expensive.

What Browning did was design a gun that, while by no means cheap, offered a more affordable option. The key ingredients were strength, good construction and simple lockwork.

Nearly 90 years and a few changes later, including the adoption of a Japanese manufacturing base for most models, Browning still holds true to the principles of the genius who gave the company its name.

The B725 Hunter G1 is a study in evolution rather than revolution. The lines retain that Browning-esque appearance which has been copied so many times, but the B725 has a more streamlined styling around the top of the action body.

/></p> <p>The stock keeps the shape that we are familiar with, though the fore-end, with its sharply curved-back shape at the end echoes the styling around the action.</p> <p>As this is the Hunter model (a game gun to us), it is decorated with pheasants and partridges plump enough to feed on for a week.</p> <p><strong><em>WHAT IS NEW?</em></strong><br /> First of all there is the low action body. It is claimed that this aids faster aiming, more instinctive shooting and a reduction in muzzle flip due to the more inline recoil.</p> <p>All these things are undoubtedly true, but there will be dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts for the old deep wall action body who aren?t convinced.</p> <p>There is also the mechanical trigger, which is a real bonus. I have never understood why so few manufacturers have gone down this logical route, as it enhances reliability.</p> <p><img width=

When you add up the various changes and improvements, it is quite a package; new enough to be an improvement, while retaining sufficient old familiar features still to be acceptable to those of a traditional bent.

It is extremely pointable, and comes with a variety of chokes.

Browning B725 Hunter G1 shotgun

From £1850

Importer: BWM Arms
Tel: 01235 514550

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