I am swapping a rifle for a Browning Citori called by its owner a "Windsor. It has an adjustable comb, adjustable buttplate, and is ported. It appears to be a Trap gun. That much I know, but can someone please inform me exactly what "Windsor" refers to?? Googling has not helped me.

Thank you,I appreciate the knowledge you are willing to share here!

Bill

The only Windsor I'm aware of is the town on Windsor and Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England and FWIW, I believe the old gunmakers 'Churchill's' had a shotgun of the same name.

It could be nothing more than Citori using the same name as a marketing ploy and I guess it's better than naming it after the nearby town of Slough, of which, Sir John Betjemin (Poet Laureate) wrote:

"come friendly bombs, fall on Slough.
It isn't fit for humans now.
There ain't the grass to graze a cow".

thanks

The "Windsor" model has a side-plate with some modest stamped engraving on it. I assume they gave it the "Windsor" name in an effort to show it was "classier" than the standard Citori.

It was never very popular -- expensive for what you got -- and not very many were made.

I should have added the above information is for the Citori Windsor made in Japan.

Browning also makes a European Citori Windsor model and that is a much nicer gun --- the engraving is still mass-produced but it of much better quality and some of them have gold-plated figures that appear to be well-done.

I don't have any idea of what either might be worth but personally I wouldn't be seen carrying the one made in Japan.