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The Medallist does not actually have any thing to do with Browning's or FN . It was a budget gun distributed by the then Browning UK [A company set up to distribute the Browning range ] as an additional line . It is actually wrong to call it a "Browning" at all and it was never sold as such the name Browning attached its self to the Medallist by default . When Browning took over the company Browning UK and changed the name to BWM [Browning Winchester Miroku ] they did consider dropping them altogether as they were not a Browning product .

Would it have been a UK only gun then ? I read that it was introduced to compete in the sub �1000 gun market at the time. Oddly enough, many of the guns it competed against were also made by fias. I usually take pictures for reference when I strip actions, found a set this morning of a lanber, hey presto, olimpo stamped on the block. I'd heard that some of these guns were made there too but hadn't checked until now. This particular one was more like the medalist action than the Hilton gun Co gun that I'm fixing
I'd heard some of the Lincoln guns were built by fias too
It'd seem that the practice of firms selling actions or complete guns to other firms is still as common as it always was.