re: Owners of Browning BPS pump action 12 gauge, is cleaning/maintenance difficult?

I never found the BPS hard to put back together and I've been breaking mine down after every two or three hunts to clean since I was a kid.

The key is to putting it back together is having the pump about halfway back on the tube. Then the barrel just about almost falls back into place on it's own. If it fights you, just move the pump backwards or forwards a little bit and it just falls in place.

At least that is how it's always been for me on my BPS pumps and my fathers. Now granted I've had mine since I was 13 so I don't know if things have changed in the overall design since I got mine.