Finally got my 16 gauge A5!

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Squatting Wolf
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Finally got my 16 gauge A5!

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I've been in love with the Browning A5's for some time now and have been looking for one in a 16 gauge. I passed one up a few years back because I was still in school and didn't have the funds...

Well on Saturday I to the gun show that was in town and at about the 4th table I looked at, there she was, a nice Light 16 A5! I instantly was in love. There were 6-8 guys standing around the table looking at it and I thought it would be my luck to come across nice 16 gauge A5 and not have a chance to buy it. As soon as the crowd disbanned I went over to check the Browning out and ended up bringing it home!

The bore shines like new, and overall the gun is in prety nice shape for it's age (1947). I plan on using it was my pheasant gun and to shoot some clays.

Here's a couple pictures I took this morning (however the pictures aren't that great!)...


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Re: Finally got my 16 gauge A5!

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Squatting Wolf ...........Congrads on your Browning. Glade you were able to get it! I don't have a semi in a browning. I have a browning lightning in O/U and my brother has a browning broadway both in 12 ga. By the looks of your stickers on your loading bench, you like quality fishing rods too? :wink: .
Way to go and thanks for sharing.
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Re: Finally got my 16 gauge A5!

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Ray,

Yep, I love my St. Croix rods! I have a few of them in my arsonal so far with plans of adding a few more. Right now I've got casting rods but plan on adding a couple spinning rods to the collection.

I am hoping to take a trip up to the boundary waters next spring...where I'll be able to give them a good workout.
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I have one of those I got from my father when he stopped hunting. It was a 16Ga A5 that was chambered for 2 1/2" shells, but he had it modified to shoot (and eject) 2 3/4" shells when the 2 1/2" shells became impossible to find.

He shot many a pheasant with that gun from the 40's to the 80's when he stopped hunting birds.

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I have one of those too. I really enjoy shooting birds and clays with it. :D
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I had an Auto 5 many moons ago.( mid '60's- early '70's) 16Ga is all I've ever used to hunt ducks, geese. pheasants and grouse with here in NW Montana. It never let me down. Congrats!!! You will love it!!!!
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I been wanting a Browning "Sweet Sixteen" for several decades now, still looking for the one with the Gold Trigger and in great shape. You have a great shotgun there and it just doesn't get any better in an autoloader.
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