Jack:
I'm looking forward to your range report and wishing you the best. The only semiauto I have owned that was chambered for .22LR was a Walther PPK I purchased from a fellow officer in Germany back in the '60s. It was a relatively rare chambering for a Walther at the time. I had a literal "blast" with the little pocket rocket. Unfortunately, I let it go several years ago in a trade I have since regretted. That Browning of yours
has to be a keeper.
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Edit: I just remembered a Beretta Bobcat Model 21 I once owned but let go due to the occasional trait of its pop-up barrel to drop a hot brass casing down any available open shirt (or more specifically, "blouse") of a shooter. (But that is another story for another time.
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