Is a browning maxus scopeable

Luketie123

Hello I'm just wondering if a browning maxus is scopeable

Witcher

Why would you want a scope on a shotgun?

Maybe if you could use slugs with it but the average shooter can't have them here so it's pointless.

TriggerPL

Blay wrote: »

Why would you want a scope on a shotgun?

Maybe if you could use slugs but the average person can't have them here.

Yes as far as I can remember

meathstevie

TriggerPL wrote: »

Yes as far as I can remember

There's quite likely a slug model with mounting options available. Good luck trying to get it licenced in Ireland though. Just check the Browning website.



Just found it, it's called the Maxus Rifled Deer Stalker and is designed for slugs only.

TriggerPL

meathstevie wrote: »

There's quite likely a slug model with mounting options available. Good luck trying to get it licenced in Ireland though. Just check the Browning website.

As far as I remember there is a weaver rail on it , I can't really check cause I'm in oz ere but I'm sure someone will be along soon enough

And mine isn't a slug model

Lotharmike

I am not sure about Maxus but a Bennelli takes a no 93 Weaver rail.I have one on the SBE2.

Luketie123

I can get slugs handy with the normal licence

Witcher

You would be in possession of unlicenced ammunition then. You need a restricted licence to purchase and possess them.

cookimonster

Out of curiosity, slugs for what?, bit much for snipe when in season.:D

dodderangler

cookimonster wrote: »

Out of curiosity, slugs for what?, bit much for snipe when in season.:D

Well anyone who asks for slugs isn't exactly after rabbits but some dealers will sell them to anyone. I won't mention them but are easily gotten

cookimonster

dodderangler wrote: »

Well anyone who asks for slugs isn't exactly after rabbits...

..............Ain't that a fact:rolleyes:


But on the off chance that Luketie123 has rabbits or such that big that they need slugs to stop 'em I wouldn't mind an invitation to that permission

TriggerPL

Ah lads talk about derailing a post ,

Cass

Luketie123 wrote: »

I can get slugs handy with the normal licence

Then you are breaking the law, as is the dealer that sells them to you.

dodderangler wrote: »

........... but some dealers will sell them to anyone. I won't mention them but are easily gotten

Don't. It's defamation/slander.

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meathstevie

Luketie123 wrote: »

I can get slugs handy with the normal licence

So not a good idea as my 11 year old daughter would say....the practicalities of the real world being what they are chances that you're ever going to run into serious legal trouble for having a few slugs in your possession are probably rather limited but expect the skies to fall on your head if you ever have a mishap with slug ammo that you shouldn't have. You'll be in that much ****e that you'd reckon the world is a septic tank.

FISMA

Luketie123 wrote: »

Hello I'm just wondering if a browning maxus is scopeable

Is the receiver drilled and tapped? Are there screws/bolts in the top part of the receiver?

Anything is scopeable if you do not mind drilling and tapping the receiver.

Often on shotguns, you buy a replacement barrel that has a rail/mount attached which slides over the receiver - a cantilever barrel. Usually, they are rifled, in order to use sabots. However, I guess if you were had slugs, you would use an unrifled barrel.

If you had a restricted license and could legally buy the sabots, it would be fun to do a bit of plinking, expensive plinking at that.

Pushing 250 and 300gr bullets through the air at supersonic speeds gives a nice kick. Cannot imagine how much they would cost at the local sioppa though.

Couldn't ye use them on Charlie?

xchrisshana

Yes you can put a scope on a maxus

dodderangler

Curious but why would you put a scope on a shotgun???

xchrisshana

Why not what ever floats your boat

deeksofdoom

dodderangler wrote: »

Curious but why would you put a scope on a shotgun???

Don't be such a dryballs:D

flounder

You can get a spring loaded base for the scope, spring absorbs the recoil, they use this set up in France shooting duck in low light.

arrowloopboy

Some ****tard will probably get a brainfart about trying to shoot deer with this braindead type of set up :rolleyes:,and then we could sell em to the game dealer and make lots a money ,great thread,keep em coming :rolleyes:.

TriggerPL

arrowloopboy wrote: »

Some ****tard will probably get a brainfart about trying to shoot deer with this braindead type of set up :rolleyes:,and then we could sell em to the game dealer and make lots a money ,great thread,keep em coming :rolleyes:.

U my friend are a moron !! This is simply a thread about scope on a browning maxus and u are straight away bringing poaching into it get a life .

There is lots if reasons to attach a scope to a shotgun .

arrowloopboy

TriggerPL wrote: »

U my friend are a moron !! This is simply a thread about scope on a browning maxus and u are straight away bringing poaching into it get a life .

There is lots if reasons to attach a scope to a shotgun .

You dead right ,this is a simple thread;)

16 bore

Cass wrote: »

Then you are breaking the law, as is the dealer that sells them to you.

Don't. It's defamation/slander.

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We said.

16 bore

I have hunted in an other country with shotgun slugs and they are quite effective at putting a deer on the ground. The nice thing about them I'd very little internal meat damage just a nice big hole and the animal bleeds out very quickly.
To answer the question asked do a search on the net and look for a weaver type rail that attaches to the barrel rib and extends back over the action to enable scope mounting you should have no problem finding one very popular even in Europe.

clivej

I have a picatinny rail that fits to my Maverick 88 pump with a red dot sight. Going to use with slugs for target shooting at varying distances up to 200m. these comps. are run in the UK.

For more details read the Phoenix comp. Gallery rifle handbook.

Chiparus

Winchester sx3 field does have dovetail groves for a scope, other models do not appear to be.

http://browning.eu/catalogues/2014/win2014en/