Re: Browning A-5 makes a comeback...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rcamuglia</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Auto-5, or original A5, was considered by John M. Browning to be his single greatest accomplishment.
I'm pretty new to these forums. I'm proud to say that I shoot for Browning and was involved with the testing of the new A5. <span style="color: #FF0000">We took the A5, along with the new entry to the O/U market, the 725, to Argentina for high volume shooting to be documented by a full camera crew.</span> I had no idea what the new shotguns to be introduced would be and was sworn to secrecy about them until the national sales meeting held the first week in October.
When I first received the shotguns and removed them from the hard shipping case, I was pretty much sent for a loop...nostalgia-wise. It was kinda like any sequence you might see in a movie with swirling flashbacks of times past in a character's life.
You see, my Grandfather had an Auto-5 12 gauge in his collection. As a little kid, I was fascinated with his collection and regularly made trips to the basement to carefully look them over. He always told me the high regard in which he held the Browning Auto-5. It made quite an impression on me. During WWII, he gave it, along with his other long guns, to the military for use in any capacity. This was common. All of his firearms were returned after the War was over, including the Auto-5, thankfully.
After his passing during my teenage years, I inherited the Browning Auto-5. I used it in the field for everything; Ducks, Quail, Doves. The first Sporting Clays Competition I entered, I won with my Grandfather's Auto-5. It's in my safe right now. It really was an incredible full circle dream coming true to be offered the opportunity to shoot for Browning after competing and doing very well for many years
You can imagine my feelings when I removed the new A5 from its case and shouldered it.
I'm happy to report that the A5 was able to kill a few doves in Argentina....LOL!
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Of course that is what every company with every shotgun for marketing does, go to Argentina! So typical! It was John M. Browning's greatest accomplishment along with the 1911, and the High Power. They should bring back John M. Browning's original design of perfection if they want to call it an A5. If not call it something else and quit using his name and the popularity of the A5 for marketing something completely new. I would probably buy a new (built as originally designed) A-5, as they are proven and tested. Cool job getting to shoot for Fabrique Nationale (FN)Herstal Group, of Belgium
