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Posted: 4/18/2017 7:50:10 AM EDT
I found this 1957 FN-made 12ga Auto-5 yesterday. Honest wear. Original finish. 25.5" (counting the barrel extension) modified plain barrel. Honest wear with no cracks in the stock/hand-guard, FN butt-plate is in very nice shape. I bought it because of overall condition the much more handy/useful modified barrel. I gave $300.00 for it.
It seems every Auto-5 of that vintage (or older) I have come across lately has a 30"+ full-choke vent or solid rib barrel with a aftermarket recoil pad installed.....And a poly-choke to boot. 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:00:15 AM EDT
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Its beautiful! I have few and the don't make them like that anymore. Good score!
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:01:17 AM EDT
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Iconic!
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:02:53 AM EDT
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Very nice. Looking for an old A5 myself now. Got a newer, great condition one from another member, and want an older, semi rough one to go with it.
If the barrel's already modified, I'd think long and hard about cutting for choke tubes. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:04:07 AM EDT
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Very nice.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:09:06 AM EDT
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I bought a 1957 made Light Twelve back in about 1985 or so. Paid 400$ for it then. Its like brand new.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:09:35 AM EDT
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Is that the one that was confiscated in Massachusetts yesterday
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:09:36 AM EDT
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Alot of barrels cut down from bulges in those old guns. My friend has one that was cut and threaded for Colonial chokes and it bulged again when a wad caught the back end of a mod choke and tore half of the choke out.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:13:01 AM EDT
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Nice score. Hard to find one with out some abortion of a choke stuck on the end of the barrel.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:18:17 AM EDT
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Nice score. Hard to find one with out some abortion of a choke stuck on the end of the barrel. At least my A5 16 ga is stock. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:18:54 AM EDT
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Very nice. Looking for an old A5 myself now. Got a newer, great condition one from another member, and want an older, semi rough one to go with it. If the barrel's already modified, I'd think long and hard about cutting for choke tubes. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Very nice. Looking for an old A5 myself now. Got a newer, great condition one from another member, and want an older, semi rough one to go with it. If the barrel's already modified, I'd think long and hard about cutting for choke tubes. Quoted:
Is that the one that was confiscated in Massachusetts yesterday 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:21:30 AM EDT
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Nice.. I'd love to find a nice A5... to go with my two Model 81s.
One of mine (.300 Savage) was made in January 1946, the other in June 1947. I think the '46 rifle was probably one of the first that Remington made after the war. I think I heard of a small number being made in 1943, but most of Remington's production went into other things during the war. Very awesome rifles... John Browning was a genius. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:23:52 AM EDT
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Whippit! Whippit good!
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:32:42 AM EDT
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Whippit! Whippit good! 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:36:16 AM EDT
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not the best pic but the top is my grandfather's A5 sweet 16. I personally have put a serious hurt on the squirrel and rabbit population with it.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:41:41 AM EDT
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best shot gun ever
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:43:11 AM EDT
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Nice.
Now SBS that bitch. 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:47:53 AM EDT
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Nice. Now SBS that bitch. 
Plus I already have a bad-ass Rhodesian A-5. 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 8:51:52 AM EDT
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My dad had a Browning Sweet 16 with a gold trigger, damn thing weighed a ton.
It left a huge bruise on my shoulder when I was 8 years old and I showed that bruise proudly to any adult that cared to look at it, because I shot dad's shotgun.
I'm old and gray now...sure miss my dad. 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:13:50 AM EDT
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I read the old ones have a series of stars stamped on the barrel to show what the choke on the barrel is.
Mine had a polychoke on it when I bought it - and no stars nor any abbreviation (like full, mod, imp) to show what the choke is/was. I was going to have a gunsmith cut off the polychoke and shorten the barrel. He advised me not to do that because he said some of the old ones came from the factory with polychokes on them. I left it alone, the barrel I mean. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:18:26 AM EDT
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Those barrels are becoming pretty hard to find.
I really want a slug barrel but I'm not paying what people are wanting. 
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:19:06 AM EDT
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My dad had a Browning Sweet 16 with a gold trigger, damn thing weighed a ton. It left a huge bruise on my shoulder when I was 8 years old and I showed that bruise proudly to any adult that cared to look at it, because I shot dad's shotgun.
I'm old and gray now...sure miss my dad. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:23:06 AM EDT
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Nice. Now SBS that bitch.
Plus I already have a bad-ass Rhodesian A-5.
http://oi62.tinypic.com/fder07.jpg |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:29:34 AM EDT
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I read the old ones have a series of stars stamped on the barrel to show what the choke on the barrel is. Mine had a polychoke on it when I bought it - and no stars nor any abbreviation (like full, mod, imp) to show what the choke is/was. I was going to have a gunsmith cut off the polychoke and shorten the barrel. He advised me not to do that because he said some of the old ones came from the factory with polychokes on them. I left it alone, the barrel I mean. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:33:02 AM EDT
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I've never even heard of such! It's badass! A5s and clones are really hard to find in my area. When I do see them, they are in terrible shape and around $400. Other than the 3-shot M-11 Sportsman I've not seen a Model 11 12 ga A-5 clone for a reasonable price for quite a while.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 9:36:57 AM EDT
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I found this 1957 FN-made 12ga Auto-5 yesterday. Honest wear. Original finish. 25.5" (counting the barrel extension) modified plain barrel. Honest wear with no cracks in the stock/hand-guard, FN butt-plate is in very nice shape. I bought it because of overall condition the much more handy/useful modified barrel. I gave $300.00 for it. It seems every Auto-5 of that vintage (or older) I have come across lately has a 30"+ full-choke vent or solid rib barrel with a aftermarket recoil pad installed.....And a poly-choke to boot.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/88145/DSCN6270--2--189940.JPG Yeah had a retired coworker ask me to try to sell his , last summer before he fled N.Y. His had a polychoke and he wanted top dollar. I said no thanks. |
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Posted: 4/18/2017 10:10:50 AM EDT
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