![]() I had some done ten years ago and the charges were at cost. Now, since most of the guns have changed hands since originally purchased, Browning charges you for it. For a long time Browning replaced the stocks with fresh ones and reblued the guns for free IF you were the original owner. That does not mean that ALL Belgian Browning shotguns whose serial numbers end in S67 through S70 have salt wood, but many did. ![]() The higher grades were affected more than the lower grades as they used the salt curing mostly on the good blanks. Browning used the process extensively on guns made in ’68 and ’69 plus also a good many done in ’67 and ’70. After a while the residual salt began to eat away blued metal where the wood touched the receiver and forend. They couldn’t flush all the salt out of the wood when the process was over. It worked well enough with only one flaw. Since time is money when you are waiting around for walnut blanks to dry out, Browning adopted the salt drying procedure. In the late ’60s Browning and a bunch of other gun makers (including the US Gov’t) were sold an idea that salt curing walnut stock blanks would cure them faster and cheaper than air drying or kiln curing. What is a “salt wood” Browning? How visually can I tell by looking at the gun?
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