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Where were the Auto-5's built that were made in 1954? I have 2 with sequential serial numbers.

“With the exception of a few lenses everything is domestically sourced in its raw state.”

Precision Rifle Shooter, 2024 Spring Edition page 36

Yeah, actually probably over 200, just not at once. I consigned over 125 after my divorce, probably still have over a couple dozen, a Grade 3 12, 16 and 20 ga set, probably a dozen NIB Stalker Light and Mag 12s, custom built 1991 Mag 12 with 28" Hastings Wadlock barrel done in Black T, NIB NWTF Mag 12, a first year Stalker 32" Mag 12 that has 10s of 1000s of rounds thru it, a couple of POW Light and Mag 20 guns NIB, a 2 gun matching serial number 12/20 Grade 3 set, a 3 gun set I put together from 1965, Light 12, Sweet 16 and Light 20, a first year double spring 1958 Mag 12 that is close to NIB, a 1909 Standard 12. I even have 2 aluminum receiver Diawa 12ga guns, shot sporting clays with one for a few seasons.

They're just guns, no one appreciates them any more, including me, when you can carry a little 5lb 28ga and shoot 5/8oz powder puff loads, hard to pick up a 9lb shotgun or shoot heavy loads of lead or steel.

They will be passed on to kiddos I know who eat sleep and breath hunting and fishing.

Belgium, 1954 thru 1957 were some of the finest Auto-5s produced

if Leupold is having issues with tracking and holding zero I would think the springs would be one of the concerns..

Are they having wide ranging issues? I have had 2, maybe 3 out of literally hundreds of cheap Leupolds that failed to track or hold zero. Yes, a tap on the turret was often required unless you ran the turrets thru their range a few times to avoid wasting ammo. But once set, they stayed in place. I have returned more for damage to be repaired or replaced than for mechanical issues.

At some point, we have to heed Sticks advice, shoot more, post less.

I am going to order me a 5 or 6 once I commit to a reticle and magnification. I damn sure won't be posting about it either way, there's enough nonsense here now.

from what gets reported that I've seen it's the higher end ones that seem to have more trouble than the cheaper ones??

but I agree with you on shoot more post less get actual experience and see what products work for you and what don't.

Things got better,yesterday afternoon. Hint.(grin)



Just sayin'...............

Ironically, shooting more is what reveals the mechanical problems that people run into. No scope has mechanical issues while sitting in the safe, and I'm guessing that it's difficult to keep enough ammo in stock to shoot hundreds of scopes enough to reveal mechanical problems. Either way, we should all use what works for our needs.

Trends and Track Records matter,as not all wares are "equal",let alone close. Hint.

Furthermore,not all Manufacturers can keep pace and more than a few are cutting costs,while "offering" schittier products for more money. None of which is "secreted" information. Hint.

Spent primers remain THE Supreme Tutorial. Hint.

Just sayin'..............

Thank you!

Oh I appreciate them plenty, but I sold my last one because I was shooting enough clays that sooner or later I’d have to have it worked on, tough as they are. The 725 I replaced it with will likely bury me.

After a slump in prices that lasted for quite some time, it appears they’re going up again.

I bought when every one and their brother had to have a Benelli SBE. People were selling them for stupid cheap, I am talking Mag 12 Stalkers for $500 or less new in the box. I bought that 3 gun Grade 3 set for less than $3k, each new in the box and never assembled so the guy could buy his 2 boys each a new SBE II. I have been offered stupid money for a new in the box Stalker with Invector Plus chokes as long as it had a 28" barrel. They cycle like everything else, ups and downs. If you purchased one at the Tulsa Gun Show between late 2017 and late 2018, it likely came from my collection. I cherry picked and kept the best for nephews and friends kids after I die.

Ex wife collected hangovers, I collected Auto-5s.

^^^ I haven’t gone through that many, but I’m not far under 75….trying to count them up. I should have kept more of them. $ got stupid on some rarer ones that just sat, so I sold those. I should have kept more of the Stalkers and somehow I don’t have any 20s anymore. HM Shirley used to crack me up when he’d start talking about the 3k Auto 5s he’d owned, and letting the Browning execs in Utah shoot stuff they swore that Browning never made. Lol.

Waiting in Ft. Lauderdale airport for a flight to Seattle and I was reading Precision Rifle when I came across this…,

Why can you not subscribe online to that magazine? You can buy the back issues, but I will be damned if I can find a way to subscribe online, either print or digital.

You lost me there.

People are putting a pile of confidence into "assembled in USA" by a guy making 17-19 bucks an hour - in the Portland area. But the machinist starts at 20....

Assemblers.

Sorry about your luck. My three have been working great for years.

It's an SIP (Special Interest Publication) and they are often newsstand only.