Home Forums Reloading 16 Gauge Society Browning Sweet Sixteen Value

I don't even know how to phrase this question. I have been asked the values of two Browning shotguns, both made in the 1930s. Supposedly both are sixteen gauge auto 5's. One has a rib and one does not. Again, both are supposedly in mint condition, no boxes. I am not a shotgun aficionado so I have no clue as to value. Any help would be appreciated.

1st you need to asertain there exact date of birth and chamber length. Safety in frt of the trigger guard? Or crossbolt?

IIRC, I went with my dad to pick up this Browning Sweet 16 (with "gold trigger" LOL) in Baytown Texas circa 1958.

He was not a hunter, and to my knowledge it was the only firearm he owned while I lived at home.

Like an idiot, when I was 14 i had enough money from mowing yards to have a poly choke installed at Ken Lee's guns in South Houston, Tx. He let me do it, cause that's the kind of man he was.

He would buy me 1 box of shells each month. Anything else I shot came out of my own pocket.

I have it still and shoot it opening day every dove season.



To me it is priceless.

When I assume room temperature it will go to my oldest with the instructions that it is to go to his son, Glenn IV.

ya!

GWB

Good looking gun

Very cool story and helpful to the OP. Likely that 1930's guns are of lower value relative to Sweet Sixteens so engraved as in the picture above. Without pictures there's no way to tell. They could be $500 guns or $5000 guns. Condition and configuration are everything, so pictures are required.

3 or 4 years,ago, before COVID hit, I sold a Belgian Sweet Sixteen for $750. It had been hunted hard and was nowhere near pristine. Based on that I would expect a decent one to ve around $1K now

A really nice one brings more than a grand, shoot a lnib jap sweet sixteen bring damn near 2k..mb

I was offered $1200 for my sweet 16. I purchased it in 1966. Also had a smoothbore slug barrel with it.I said no thanks.

Unless you need the money, I think you did right.
.....and I'd have to be awfully desperate to accept the offer.