Posted on 01/06/2017 7:50:36 AM PST by w1n1
Browning's light and balanced A5 shotgun lets you to shoot the old 'gentleman's gauge' in a technologically updated package.
As an aspiring curmudgeon (my wife might suggest that I'm already there), I frown disapprovingly when I hear that someone is remaking a classic. Be it a movie, a song or a firearm, some things are just so iconic that you simply shouldn't mess with them. If you do, you'd better get it right, or you'll catch hell from people whose hearts were captured by the original. Sadly, and all too often, "new and improved" translates into "new and cheapened and ugly."
I recently had an opportunity to test one such newly made-over gun, the Browning A5 Sweet Sixteen shotgun, and I'm pleased to report that, in this instance, the manufacturer got it right. By right, I mean spectacularly right.
My opportunity to test this reborn 16-gauge classic came during a three-day pheasant hunt with R&R Pheasant Hunting, an 18,000-acre, family-owned farming and ranching operation near Seneca, S.D., with four other outdoor scribes. We were there, along with representatives from Browning, Winchester and the South Dakota Department of Tourism, to test three new shotguns and ammunition from Browning and Winchester. Read the rest of the story here.
I have been lusting for one of those.
They’re very light compared to the old A-5 long recoil Sweets, great upland gun.
I hunt birds with my grandpa’s old Fox Sterlingworth 16 ga double barrel. Wonderful shotgun. Ducks don’t stand a chance!
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$1,700.00!!! Ouch!!
Gunner
You can find them for under $1500 if you look hard enough. But $1700 is in the ball park with other top of the line semi autos like Berettas and Benellis.
A friend has an old 16 gauge side-by-side and I’ve often admired it. I really like the 16, it is just the right size for long shooting sessions.
I bring this one out to the clays range upon occasion.
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Beautiful work of craftsmanship.
It was tea and scones.... I won’t part with my gun for anyone who doesn’t know the difference.
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