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January 20, 2023
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Before I go “outside the wire” — more than a few of us collect Browning as well as Winchester — is there anyone here who might advise me by PM on the subject of Auto-Five slug guns?
I went to consign a pistol yesterday to a local dealer I know because it is a lot of trouble to auction and deliver one anymore. I came home with the best looking 12 gauge Standard weight (blue trigger) A5 I’ve ever seen. M prefix serial for a 1957 DOM. 99%. Sling stud on buttstock and in mag cap. American import not Euro gun. An L prefix 1955 Browning marked barrel with NO CHOKE CODE, 24″ with ramped front and rear iron sights. According to Marty Huber. Browning stopped matching serials of barrel to receiver postwar so not necessarily a replacement. Original horn buttplate. 2.75″ chamber.
What clues should I look for?
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
December 13, 2006
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For a lot of people, Art Isaacson (Art’s Gun Shop) is their GURU for the A5!
January 20, 2023
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Thanks, Jim. I’ve watched his videos wherein he repairs small bore, high grade Superposed guns that were badly corroded from salt cured stocks. Makes you sick to look at the guns.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
December 13, 2006
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Zebulon said
Thanks, Jim. I’ve watched his videos wherein he repairs small bore, high grade Superposed guns that were badly corroded from salt cured stocks. Makes you sick to look at the guns.
It sure does! . . . .
I’ve seen a few “in the flesh!”
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