There are still a ton of great Browning Auto 5 shotguns in the used market. No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with ...

This article, "The Legendary A5", appeared originally in the June 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman ...

“It’s a little bitty thing,” Tom said, and what he pulled from that gun case was a stop-the-traffic beauty—a 1958 Browning Auto-5 Light Twenty, with a round-knob pistol grip. The wood was ...

Being a gun engineer ... Double-Auto and Browning B-2000. The bolt then slides forward automatically to chamber the round. This speed-loading component is common on many of Browning’s semi-autos (it ...

Introduced in the early 20th century, the Browning Auto-5 was the first commercially successful autoloading shotgun. A revolutionary design at the time, the Auto-5 worked by harnessing the gasses ...

and yet here were shotguns that did all the work, save aiming the shot. Sjögren’s scattergun sold in modest numbers and was soon forgotten in favor of Browning’s Auto-5, but they would meet ...

No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with the bolt, then forward as it picks up the next shell and returns to battery. That ...