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If you have a chance to own one, get it, but get it serviced by a competent gunsmith before you use it, and have a read of the instruction book to get properly familiar with it. The Belgian made examples are already collector’s items, but are not too valuable to collect and shoot. With their long recoil operation these guns soak up recoil and tend to function with near legendary reliability. These guns were made by Remington as their Model 11 and by Savage as their Models 720 and 745.
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The guns were also made by Miroku in Japan for a while and the Japanese made guns were well made but tend to be heavier than the Belgian FN made guns. The earlier guns made by Fabrique Nationale in Belgium are amongst the most prized both for functionality and for quality of manufacture. Painful lessons are usually ones we remember and I’ve never managed to accidentally close an action on my thumb ever since.ĭon’t press the little round button under the ejection port whilst you’re putting a cartridge into the chamber, it will hurt! (Picture courtesy ).ĭesigned in 1898 John Moses Browning’s Auto 5 was in production by various manufacturers from 1902 up until 1998. The innocuous little button is the bolt release and so the bolt slammed shut on my poor little thumb leaving blood on the breech face and a look of significant pain on my face. I opened the breech and inserted a cartridge into the chamber, I was supporting the gun with my left hand under the receiver as I did that and managed to accidentally press the button on the right side of the receiver as I pushed the cartridge into the chamber with my thumb.
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The gun was loaned to me by a friend who left me to figure out how to use it, I think he just assumed I would know. In addition to the bronze ring and friction ring adjustments there was another trap for young players who hadn’t read the instruction book, and I was one of those “young players” when I first had the opportunity to use one on a duck shoot many years ago. Browning a5 16 Ga 20 Solid Rib Barrel Cutts Compensator W/3 Chokes 287. RARE Browning a5 Barrel Cockerill Steel 1904 28 3/4' 399.99. This sale gun is fitted with a Polychoke adjustable choke. Browning Auto-5 20 Gauge 24 Lightweight Buck Special Auto 5 Slug Barrel. Belgian FN made 1947 vintage Browning Auto 5 coming up for auction by Rock Island Auction on 26th May 2016.