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Speaking of Auto5s and Gay... I've got an Auto5 made in the 1920s, I think for the French market. Apparently the French only allowed semi-auto shotgun shell capacity of TWO, and... better yet, there are no "user serviceable" parts, i.e. there is no magazine plug to take out. The damn thing is "hardwired" at a magazine capacity of TWO, period. No wonder they lost Round Two with the Germans soon after. But, at least it's 12 ga.
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Tio WS, you aren't talking about a Browning Double Automatic are you?
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No. This is an A5 that only holds 2 shells that was made a long time before the Browning Double Automatic... best I recall, 1928 or thereabouts. Far as I can see, the only thing about it that stands out as better than a double-barrel, is, I guess it's probably lighter, but mostly the automatic aspect of it reduces the recoil considerably.
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Hmmm. This was sold to me as an A5, but apparently it is a first-year-of-production-ish Browning A3.
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=66683
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Post subject: Re: Browning A-5 3 Shot
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:07 am
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You will have to get an A3 barrel for the gun. The barrel lug is in a different laocation.
Your gun was made in 1939 just before the Browning works in Belgium shut down because of Nazi occupation. I have an A5 that is numbered 219333 and it has Nazi ordinace marks.
While some modern Browning literature shows the A3 starting production in starting in 1932,manufactoring started as early as 1928. I have an European Browning catalog that shows both the A5 and the A3. As,Marlands said, the A3 did not show up here until 1932 even though some American gun writers reviewed the A3 at least as early as 1930.
The A5 and A3 were serial numbered in the same batch of serial numbers as the A5s.
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It's been a long time since I fired that gun, but three rounds if one was chambered seems right.
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I shore like that.....Just out of curiosity about how many beans does something like that run?
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“One ... billion dollars”
I’m an engineer. To save us both time, let’s just assume I’m not wrong.
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