Posted: 8/3/2015 12:37:48 AM EDT
This is great grandpa's shotgun. The serial number is in the low 50,000's. It has the Belgian steel "special barrel." It's a 16 gauge that has been retired from it's hunting role. It shoots skeet now. It has a modified choked barrel. It don't take no tubes. I took this old bastard for some trap shooting today. It shoots straight and clean. John Browning wasn't fucking around when he invented that gun. That man ment business. This gun shoots straight and patterns beautifully. I love the magic bolt release button on the side of the receiver. The magazine lock lever is fucking amazing. It is the best thing since sliced bread. Adjusting the friction ring is a right of passage. I love the "sproooiiiing" sound when the main spring slams that barrel back home. The gun shoots better than I can. Grandpa and his dad killed many critters with that gun. That gun is a piece of old school craftsmanship. It is a major step above my everyday filthy slut whore of a shotgun: 
Post you Auto Five love stories here. |
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the a5 is one of the only shotguns i like 
those rhodesian (iirc) ones give me wood I dig the A5. Other than an old revolver, it is one of the few guns that I cannot keep my eyes off of. The A5 has that look about it. I could stare at this gun for hours. It is beautiful in a practical, rough, ugly, but delicate way. The more I look at it, the more I realise that John Browning perfected every detail. |
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Love me some A5 goodness! I almost want to buy and Audi A5 just because!
Mine here - A5 and a few others Probably cheating reposting my own thread. But my A5 in 16GA is my favorite upland gun. It took 20+ pheasant and 20+ chukar last year |
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Quoted: Not an Auto 5...but probably older than any Auto 5 that is going to be posted in this thread.  http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/DSCN0325_zpsada3c061.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/DSCN0328_zpsa9189f08.jpg |
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Nice Remington. What year was it made? Quoted:
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Not an Auto 5...but probably older than any Auto 5 that is going to be posted in this thread.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/DSCN0325_zpsada3c061.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/DSCN0328_zpsa9189f08.jpg 1910. |
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I have two, both were my dads/granddads guns.
One is a light twelve, with the Belgian steel full choke barrel, and a 20 gauge that had a Belgian steel barrel that a previous owner put one of those adjustable chokes on, which is now broken, and now has a Japanese barrel threaded for choke tubes. Eventually I'll get the adjustable crap cut off and have it threaded for chokes so it can wear the original barrel again. |
