Belgian Brownings uses and collectibility

I love the auto-5. I have a nice collection and I love especially the pre-war engraved auto-5. I am actually restoring an old Magnum on which I will mount an English stock for goose hunting.
 
I used a Miroku Magnum A5 for the first time this season, it was really nice. Barely any recoil with the 3" and it's fast to mount and sight down the receiver.
 
I've got a spare barrel for my Auto 5 so I can either shoot steel through the chokes or Bismuth. Come to think of it, I've got a spare barrel for my B2--- too. As for my Superposed 12 and 20, they're for upland.
 
I have several Auto 5's, all in excellent condition. One is 12ga mag with a modified barrel. I have shot a lot of steel through it and haven't seen any issues. Another is a 12ga mag with an aftermarket Hastings Paradox rifled slug barrel made by Vernon Carey. It shoots slugs both boughten and my homemade Lyman 525 slugs deer accurate to 100 yards (3" groups). My light 12 is used for trap and skeet and my mag 20 sits in the safe all nice and minty.
 
I've had auto 5's but I've never kept any of them, few other shotguns I've fired have the muzzle rise that they do so they're just not my thing. I've had several Superposed guns go through my hands and I still have a couple of Broadways that I shoot regularly.
 
i have a over under browning that i got for cheap .someone chopped the barrels down after blowing them up. it has around 22 inch barrels and i run anything through it as there is no choke.accurate with slugs shooting in a stacked pattern. it has taken a few deer . some waterfowl and the odd groundhog .not a gun i intend to part with although i have had buyers for it .
 
Elmer Keith wrote of testing the Auto 5 for the U.S military in his book Hell I Was There.
Interesting read for sure but I've never heard of that same issue occurring anywhere else.
 
Jeez, this thread makes me think of an unfired Belgian Auto 5 I bought along with a bunch of other firearms. It went to a very grateful Browning collector. IIRC, it was made the last year of Belgian manufacture. Does 1953 sound right?
 
Majority of Auto-5 production moved to Miroku in 1975, imports of Japanese Auto-5s started in 1976. FN continued to make a few into the early 80s.
 
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sharp shooter said:
I see that people have been asking ridiculous prices on them in the EE. What are they really going for?
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Dependith.
Sold one last gun show for I beleaf $650.
Three inch mag in great condition.
Sold it on set up day to a young feller.
Seen a few more out there in the $1000 range.
Dint know if they sold or nawt.

Now the 20's fetch ahhhhh premium.
 
kamlooky said:
Dependith.
Sold one last gun show for I beleaf $650.
Three inch mag in great condition.
Sold it on set up day to a young feller.
Seen a few more out there in the $1000 range.
Dint know if they sold or nawt.

Now the 20's fetch ahhhhh premium.
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What do the real sweet 16's go for now
Cheers
 
I had a Belgian Auto 5 20 ga magnum that I used to teach my youngest son to hunt waterfowl with. When he moved on to a 12 ga, I sold it - way too cheap. I have and sometimes use a nice Superposed, round knob long tang lightning 20 ga. 28" IC/Mod. A deadly pheasant and hun gun. It comes out hunting with me most years, and usually for a couple rounds of skeet or sporting clays too. My oldest son has a similar gun that is choked F/M which he uses for upland birds.
 
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