Current Citoris feature screw-in 'Invector'-style choke tubes to regulate shot patterns downrange and thus provide versatility for usage in hunting and target shooting older models had factory fixed chokes. Citori actions are made with internal hammers and coil springs and all Citori models have shell ejectors, which expel spent empty shells when the breech is opened by pressing aside the top lever and bending the action fully open, which also re-cocks the internal hammers.Īs a decades-old tradition among many shotgun manufacturers, the single trigger is gold plated. Newer Citori internal barrels are chrome-lined for added surface strength. All metal parts are bright blued for the standard model, 'in-the-white' higher grade models with more elaborate machine-applied engraving can also be purchased. The top barrel has a vented rib attached by soldering for the entire length of the barrel tube. The side jet of gun barrel smoke is from the ported barrel.īrowning Citoris come in all of the popular shotgun shell gauges, and are made in an over-under 'stacked' barrel configuration with forends and buttstocks made from high quality walnut wood. United States President Barack Obama skeet shooting with a Browning Citori 525 on the range at Camp David. Over the decades, the Citori has proven to be everything FN wanted and more-a high quality, reliable, yet an affordable, contemporary, fully featured shotguns designed from the timeless classic. Selection of the manufacturing site became Japan (Miroku Corporation) to satisfy the required high quality and volume of production requirements. FN's marketing challenge was to design and manufacture a modern over-under shotgun with all of the styling themes of the Browning Superposed, but manufacture and offer it at prices affordable to the everyday sportsman and competitive shooter. The last completed design, and possibly the most elegant firearm design, completed by famous small arms designer John Moses Browning, the Browning Superposed has been a top seller and highly prized firearm among sportsmen and shotgun collectors for nearly a century since introduction in 1931.

Browning Arms Company is a wholly owned entity of FN. The Browning Citori ('Citori' has no meaning and is an advertising construct) was designed and introduced in 1973 as a more affordable version of the highly successful Browning Superposed shotgun manufactured in Belgium by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN).

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