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Post by foxtrapper on Oct 26, 2021 18:06:08 GMT -5
Any one have one? That they ain’t feeling? Pm me please. Hopefully I danced around that successfully. Lol
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Post by squawberryman on Oct 26, 2021 18:29:11 GMT -5
What gauge
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Post by foxtrapper on Oct 26, 2021 18:52:49 GMT -5
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 26, 2021 19:31:57 GMT -5
Any one have one? That they ain’t feeling? Pm me please. Hopefully I danced around that successfully. Lol ***** I’ve only owned the Belgians. Japanese Brownings I’ve shot are beautifully made. I would think the steel not a lick inferior, possibly stronger. on the Japanese. The Browning Auto 5 in 20 gauge is a svelte work of mechanical art, a snappy bird gun. Browning’s LONG RECOIL A-5 cycles faster than Remington’s gas operated Model 1100. While cycling faster, the long recoiling barrel produces more kick. The A-5 12 gauge performed with superior reliably at bowling pins shoots, where buffered buckshot fills the action with ground plastic, good for gumming the gas gun. With long recoil, periodically squirt the works with oil and keep shooting. John Garand brilliantly borrowed Browning’s A-5 trigger for the M1. (For his Kalashnikov AK-1947, Milhail Kalashnikov borrowed safety from John Browning’s long recoil Model 8 deer rifle.) David Bradshaw
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 26, 2021 19:50:52 GMT -5
What I like about the A5’s recoil system is while it does move more mass thusly creating more recoil, it also seemed to spread that recoil over a long timeframe which made felt recoil seem softer to me. I put together a vintage A5 receiver with a complete parts kit from a demilled more modern gun and created my favorite version a Buck Master slug gun. I had a Rem 11 16ga prior to that which was really nice as well. Trapr
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 27, 2021 8:28:04 GMT -5
What I like about the A5’s recoil system is while it does move more mass thusly creating more recoil, it also seemed to spread that recoil over a long timeframe which made felt recoil seem softer to me. I put together a vintage A5 receiver with a complete parts kit from a demilled more modern gun and created my favorite version a Buck Master slug gun. I had a Rem 11 16ga prior to that which was really nice as well. Trapr ***** Trapr.... curious to know how many copies have been made of Browning’s auto shotgun invention. It’s decades since I fully stripped an A-5. Disassembly of all those forged & machined parts is straight forward, without tricks or destruction of any parts; more than can be said of some guns made since that 1900 masterpiece. Too paraphrase Bill Ruger, an indication of Browning's brilliance is his design of a machine gun AROUND Hiram Maxim’s patent covering the concept of full auto fire. From turning a Winchester lever action into a gas operated full auto, up through his .50 cal. BMG, the old boy came up with more ways to go BANG than any manufacturer could put into production. Which is why Winchester bought his patents----to keep Remington and others from producing them. Up in Canada years ago the waterfowl guides carried Browning Auto-5’s, because they worked. And didn’t break. Which, with smiths few and far between, counts big time in the Big Woods. Those old A-5’s were a frightful sight, no bluing, cracked & glued forends, more or less thrown into the boat, the same boat that, if left to winter on a hard to reach lake, by next summer would be incorporated into a beaver dam. My Buck Special has seen more partridge than deer. The magazine cutoff is a beautifully executed idea, which I’ve seldom used. Years ago I resisted the temptation to drill the stock and magazine cap for sling swivels, opting instead to sling it with a hank of rope. A sixgun draws faster than you can switch shells in a shotgun, so for combined hunting the shotgun and handgun each knows its job. The old Brownings made by Fabrique Nationale wear a buttplate of pressed horn. Never figured a reason to change that. As you say, by the time you get kicked by an A-5, the kick has softened. What hasn’t softened, the brilliant music of Browning’s Auto 5 cycling. Cannot think of a more melodious metallic sound. The old Colt Peacemaker and Bill Ruger’s old Blackhawk and Super Blackhawk come about second. With Remington’s old Model 870 pump standing 3rd place on the podium of GUN MUSIC. David Bradshaw
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Post by bula on Oct 27, 2021 9:13:21 GMT -5
I can't help you find one, do have a memory to share. My Dad had no interest in guns, hunting, or shooting for fun. Hunted because he had to during the Depression and did enough shooting in WW2. He bought me the appropriate firearm at various ages and made some effort to be sure I could safely use them. My best friend(still is) and his Dad, took me shooting, hunting. He had a "Sweet 16" version and believe a Belgium made one. It was very nice. When I piled up enough trap line money, I went Ithaca and my Mom helped me buy a M37 Deluxe with the extra 26" Deerslayer barrel. An uncles 16ga M37 and a 20 ga reside here now for anti-grouse duty. If I had to guess, that Browning is in the back of my friends gun safe, our Dad's now long gone. No guess at all, it will be the last gun he sells, or his wife will sell..
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