A $5000 bank gives you quite a few options. "Best" is hard to define, but I think it would be hard to argue that you would get the best value out of a used british boxlock from any number of makers in that price range. Finding that gun is another matter and if you aren't very familiar with used british guns then you need to hire someone who is to guide you through the purchase. A really nice british boxlock is better than 95% of the stuff that ever came out of spain, not meaning to belittle spanish shotguns but facts are facts. It would be hard to go wrong with a good used brit gun.
