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Thanks, Kevin. I still have not had a chance to shoot it. When I get back to my home state of WI later this summer/early fall I plan on going over to a friend's farm and blasting some pigeons we chase out of his barn. It's lots of fun and good warmup for grouse hunting!

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I use an A-5 from 1952.

An interesting gun, it is a 12 gauge with a factory 25 3/4" barrel bored straight cylinder, and so marked. It has a solid rib. Pretty good Missouri quail gun....

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I'm thinking it reguires atleast a 10000 CUP loading where as my reloads are at 9000 CUP. I can get to 10000 CUP just have to go with a bigger bushing, 128 LEE now with Unique.


Peak pressure has absolutely nothing to do with an A-5's ability to cycle.


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I bought a 16 gauge A5 right at the end of upland season here in NE (last weekend of the season actually). The day I bought it it was raining but the next morning I woke up to a nice clear day. So I headed out behind the house back into the woods by my pond and kicked up a rabbit. Very first shot I ever fired through an A5. I've since killed a couple of boxes of clay pigeons and this fall we'll see if we can't knock down a pheasant or two. She's an oldy made 1926 according to the blue book. The barrel has been converted to shoot the 2-3/4 shells.

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I wade through my friction ring setup confusion with the help of an old gunsmithing book. It says put the friction ring down at the bottom too for light loads. With three parts to arrange and two of them being two sided, there are 120 possible setup combinations. Maybe only one of them is exactly right, but many of them ain't exactly wrong.


Flat side of washer: always against spring; bevel side always against beveled side of brass friction piece.

Manual is free for the download from Browning.com.


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I did for several years in the early 70's. Then I discovered better upland guns such as the Win Model 12, Remington 31 and Ithaca 37 pumps all in 16 ga. Lighter and much easier for me to use than the big hump back. Never could get use to the clunk clunk double shuffle of the long recoil barrel moving rearward. Also never did like my trigger finger getting wacked by the safety on the double recoil shuffle. Excuse my rant, but for fun I just shot a round of trap today and reminded myself on why I had not shot that gun in years.

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I used A-5's for years.

All good but now I use a Benelli Super Black Eagle.

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I could never make up my mind on an 12 gauge...first gun I ever had that was mine is a model 37 Ithaca Trap with an extra mod barrel...then grandad gave me his model 12, I thought I needed a new shotgun and bought a BPS stalker, one of the first balck guns, wood stock painted crinkle black.

My dad finally gave up hunting an gave me the @-5 light he save for and bought when I was in highschool. I've been shooting that better and better...last fall shot more roosters than ever. Now I have my other grandad's A-5 16, 2.5" shells are hard to come by, but my first shot put a ringneck in the truck...guess I'm hooked.

Then I had to have an SBE...got one of them and can't hit CHIT!

Sure glad I kept the A-5's....

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I still use a 1952 vintage for upland. I even use it for trap league and shot a 25 with it last week.

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I have an A-5 SweetSixteen rounded pistol grip 28" barrel bored Modified. Hunt pheasants and use it quite a bit and like. I bought the gun in a hardware store about 10 years ago. I had the day from hell and was lsot and stopped in the store to use the restroom. I walked by the gun rack and saw the gun and asked the counter help to look at since I thought it was a 20 gauge and it was obviously a Belgium gun. He said no it was a 16 and I said let me look at it. The gun was around 98% and had the original operation maunal. He said some older gentleman had brought it in and they paid him cash for it. They had a tag on it for $525. I handed the gun back to him and said I would go $475 and we split the difference at $500. I had been looking for a good sweet 16 for some time to go into my limited collection of shotguns. I have a Citori 16 also and wanted the A-5 to go along with it. I go to South Dakota for pheasant and with the numbers of birds it is quite a bit fun to shoot and I always get comments on how nice a gun it is. I thought it was quite the fortuitous find.

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I had a 20 guage A-5 I killed bunches of grouse with, loved it. Fast, light and pointed well. I need another.


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