I picked this 2 3/4" only A5 up a few years ago as project to build a Bonnie and Clyde style SBS, reason being it had a bulge in the barrel from a stuck wad a couple inches in front of the magazine cap which makes it the perfect short barreled shotgun candidate. I rough cut it to 18 and change with the intent to Form 1 it and ended up doing an 870 SBS instead. Seeing as the barrel is already bulged, you won't get drawn and quartered by Browning aficionados for butchering a perfectly good vent rib Auto 5 barrel which are rarer by the year. This one has some dings and wear but mechanically is great. I installed new friction rings and a new recoil spring.

$400








This is an example of what it would look like after the Form 1.