Straight grip, round knob pistol grip, long barrels, short barrels, tight chokes or open, you could get an A-5 in just about any configuration you wanted. It wasnt the first gas gun, but for a 60-plus-year-old shotgun. Sales of FN-manufactured Browning’s were brisk and soon 16- and 20-gauge offerings joined the lineup. Assortment of shotgun, pistol and airgun models available.410 Gauge Shells. Browning’s long-recoil design, which sent the bolt and barrel backwards at the same time, cycled spent shells fast with minimal maintenance. Even after waterfowl hunters were limited to three shotshells, it was still more firepower than a single-shot or double gun. The Auto-5 and the U.S-made Remington Model 11 (Browning sold the design rights of the A-5 to the American gunmaker) revolutionized shotguns, because hunters could go afield with a gun that held five rounds instead of one or two. Thus, for instance, a gun with a serial number ending. The real key to age is not the serial number alone, but the two letters which follow it.

The Auto-5 Becomes Iconic The original A-5 was built into the late 1990s. The MK70 was introduced in the mid 1990s, so your gun can only be about 15 years old at the most. And when Browning couldn’t strike deals with Winchester or Remington to build the Auto-5, he naturally turned to FN and the “Belgian-made Browning” was born.

Old miroku shotgun models