John Moses Browning received a patent ... Award" goes to Smith & Wesson for its Model 1854 lever-action rifle. One of the world's first successful semi-automatic handguns, the C96 "Broomhandle ...

In 1899, Browning approached Winchester president T.G. Bennett with a revolutionary new design for the world’s first semi ... a skeet gun because of its light weight. The Trap Model Auto-5 ...

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 ...

The newer “fixed” model solved all the issues that ... TOP PICK FOR HUNTING SEMI-AUTO SHOTGUN – BROWNING A5 If you’re thinking isn’t this the A5 from World War 2? Don’t worry, I ...

The best semi auto shotguns fire rounds reliably and ... and the U.S. (as the Remington Model 11). The popularity that the semi-auto platform enjoys today is largely thanks to Browning. Now ...

The author took this mixed bag of ducks and geese with his Browning A5 semi-auto shotgun. Phil Bourjaily ...

Introduced in the early 20th century, the Browning Auto-5 was the first ... autoloading, or semi-automatic shotguns, have become favorites among waterfowlers and both competitive and casual ...

The newer “fixed” model solved all the issues that ... TOP PICK FOR HUNTING SEMI-AUTO SHOTGUN – BROWNING A5 For anyone who has shot this, they’ll know why we picked it as our top choice.

Semi-automatic ... and its discontinuation in 1999, Browning sold millions of A5, or Auto 5, shotguns. The current A5 production model was introduced in 2012 and is mechanically simpler than ...

Browning makes an A5 today which resembles the humpback profile of the original Auto 5. It is not the same gun as Browning’s long recoil model. It’s an inertia-operated gun modeled after the Benelli.