Browning Magazines
Factory Browning • Hi Power / Buck Mark / 1911-22 / 1911-380 • 9mm / .22 LR / .380 ACP
Browning Arms Company — founded 1878 by John Moses Browning in Ogden, Utah — is the most prolific firearms-design house in American history, with John Browning's 128 patents forming the mechanical foundation of the 1911, the M2 .50 cal, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Hi Power. Keep Shooting carries the complete Browning pistol- magazine lineup: factory Browning 1911-22 and 1911-380 magazines for the 85% scale 1911 platform, Browning Buck Mark .22 LR magazines for the classic rimfire sporter, and Mec-Gar factory-OEM Hi Power magazines in 10-round and 15-round capacities for the most-adopted 9mm service pistol in military history.
About Browning Magazines at Keep Shooting
Keep Shooting carries the complete Browning pistol- magazine lineup — factory Browning magazines for the 1911-22 and 1911-380 scale-1911 platform, the Buck Mark .22 LR sporter, and Mec-Gar factory-OEM magazines for the legendary Hi Power in 10-round and 15-round capacities. For the high-volume Hi Power lineup specifically, see our dedicated Browning Hi Power Magazines subcategory. For the full Browning firearm and accessory catalog including the Microblast flashlight, Pro22 subsonic ammunition, and Hi Power TekMat, see our Browning brand page.
Browning Arms Company was founded in 1878 by John Moses Browning (1855–1926) in Ogden, Utah, and today operates from Morgan, Utah as a wholly- owned subsidiary of FN Herstal (Fabrique Nationale). Browning is the most prolific firearms-design house in American history. John M. Browning personally held 128 firearms patents and designed the mechanical foundations of the Colt 1911, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), the M1917 water-cooled machine gun, the M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun (adopted 1933, still in US military service 93 years later), the Auto-5 semi-automatic shotgun (the first successful semi-auto shotgun, 1902), the Browning Hi Power (completed posthumously by Dieudonné Saive, 1935), and dozens of other foundational firearms. No single designer has contributed more to the modern firearms landscape.
Browning the company and Browning the designer are distinct but intertwined. John M. Browning's business model was to design firearms and license production to other manufacturers — the 1911 was licensed to Colt, the Auto-5 shotgun to Remington, the BAR to Colt and later Winchester, the Hi Power to Fabrique Nationale in Belgium. Only later did Browning Arms Company emerge as a standalone sales-and- distribution arm for FN-manufactured designs. In 1977 FN Herstal acquired full ownership of Browning Arms Company, completing the corporate consolidation of the two enterprises John Browning had worked with for 30+ years. Today, firearms sold under the Browning name are manufactured either by FN Herstal in Belgium, by Miroku in Kochi, Japan (which produces the long guns — X-Bolt, A-Bolt, BLR, Citori, Auto-5 revival), or by various subcontractors for specific product lines.
The Browning 1911-22 and 1911-380 are a unique product line in the Browning catalog — introduced in 2011 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of John M. Browning's Colt 1911 patent. Both pistols are 85% scale reproductions of the original full-size 1911, chambered in the smaller .22 LR (1911-22, 10-round magazine) and .380 ACP (1911-380, 8-round magazine) cartridges. The scale reduction is proportional across every dimension — slide, frame, grip, controls, magazine — producing a pistol that operates identically to a full-size 1911 but in a lighter, smaller package suitable for training (.22 LR converts expensive 9mm/.45 range practice into affordable rimfire practice with identical trigger and manual-of-arms), concealed carry (the 1911-380 weighs 17.5 oz unloaded — roughly half the weight of a full-size 1911), and collectors of Browning- design firearms. The 1911-22 magazine ($48.91) and 1911-380 magazine ($40.28) are factory Browning production, scaled to fit the 85% frames and incompatible with full-size 1911 magazines. These are proper factory-spec magazines — not an aftermarket equivalent exists.
The Browning Buck Mark (introduced 1985, still in current production 41 years later) is one of the most successful .22 LR target pistols ever produced in the United States. Chambered exclusively in .22 Long Rifle and operating on a simple straight-blowback action, the Buck Mark is built around a machined- aluminum receiver with an integral optics rail and a 10-round factory magazine. The platform has been produced in 40+ configurations over its production run — the Buck Mark URX, Buck Mark Camper, Buck Mark Field Target, Buck Mark Hunter, Buck Mark Contour, Buck Mark Plus, Buck Mark Micro, and dozens of special-edition variants — and remains one of the standard benchmarks for serious .22 target and small-game pistols. The factory Buck Mark .22 LR magazine ($41.60) fits every Buck Mark variant produced since 1985, a rare example of genuine 40-year magazine compatibility across a platform's entire production history. The Buck Mark represents one of Browning's few original post-John-Browning-era designs — designed in-house at Morgan, Utah in the early 1980s as the successor to the earlier Browning Challenger series (1962–1984).
The Browning Hi Power is covered in depth on our Browning Hi Power Magazines subcategory page — briefly, it is John M. Browning's final design (started 1921, completed posthumously by Dieudonné Saive at FN in the decade after Browning's 1926 death, introduced 1935), the first successful high-capacity 9mm service pistol (13 rounds in the original 1935 specification), and the most widely-adopted 9mm service pistol in military history — standard issue to 50+ national militaries including the British Army (as the L9A1, 1957–2013), Canadian Forces (1944–2022), Indian Army (current issue), Israeli Defense Forces, and dozens of other armed services. FN ceased Hi Power production in 2017 after 82 years of continuous manufacture; the design was revived in 2022 by Springfield Armory (SA-35), Girsan (MC P35), and Tisas (Regent BR9). Keep Shooting carries 10-round and 15-round Mec-Gar factory-OEM Hi Power magazines — the same magazines FN shipped as factory-production Hi Power mags, and the same magazines Springfield Armory ships with new SA-35 pistols from the factory.
Why factory Browning (and Mec-Gar OEM) magazines? Three of the four Browning pistol platforms in our catalog — the 1911-22, 1911-380, and Buck Mark — have no legitimate aftermarket alternative. The 85% scale-1911 magazine geometry is Browning-proprietary tooling and no third-party manufacturer produces a compatible magazine; the Buck Mark magazine is similarly single-source from Browning. If you own one of these pistols, factory Browning is not a preference — it is the only option. Mec-Gar (Gussago, Italy) is the Hi Power situation — Mec-Gar is FN's factory OEM supplier, produces Hi Power magazines to the original FN specification on the original FN tooling, and supplies magazines to every modern Hi Power manufacturer (Springfield, Girsan, Tisas) as factory-production magazines. For the broader Mec-Gar factory-OEM lineup covering Beretta, SIG, CZ, Smith & Wesson, and other platforms, see our Mec-Gar brand page.
Browning's civilian market position today spans four overlapping user profiles across these pistol platforms. Plinkers and small-game hunters own the Buck Mark — it is the standard high-quality .22 LR target pistol and remains one of the best-selling rimfire semi-autos in the US market. 1911 trainers own the 1911-22 as a low-cost companion to their full-size .45 ACP 1911 — same manual of arms, same trigger feel, cents-per-round rimfire ammunition. Concealed-carry traditionalists carry the 1911-380 as a lighter, smaller 1911 alternative to polymer subcompacts. Hi Power veterans and collectors own the Hi Power across its 90-year production history — L9A1 British-service veterans, FN commercial-production collectors, WWII Inglis collectors, and the new generation of SA-35, MC P35, and BR9 owners who discovered the platform through the 2022 revival. All four groups are served by factory Browning and Mec-Gar magazines.
Keep Shooting ships all Browning magazines from our Pennsylvania warehouse with free shipping on orders over $49.95 and hassle- free returns. Magazine shipments comply with destination-state capacity restrictions — the 15-round Hi Power magazine will not ship to California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont, or Washington DC (state-level capacity restrictions vary — verify before ordering); the 10- round Hi Power, Buck Mark, 1911-22, and 1911-380 magazines are unrestricted in all US jurisdictions. Whether you're a Buck Mark owner sourcing spare magazines after 20 years of plinking use, a 1911-22 trainer stocking spare magazines for a weekend rimfire match, a 1911-380 concealed-carry user building up practice-magazine inventory, or a Hi Power owner — across any production era from 1935 FN GP35 through current-issue Springfield SA-35 — every magazine in our Browning catalog is either factory Browning production or factory Mec-Gar OEM production, with the full manufacturer warranty and the build quality that warranty requires.
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