100 Years of Auto 5 manufacturing and Impossible to Find good stuff for it..why/Help.

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anyone know where to find auto 5 barrels and such, i find it hard to believe after 100 years of production the market for parts is so crappy :HR:. I have an 1953 Fn 12g standard model really love the shotgun but would liek to shoot steel out of it also i would love to have a rifled barrel for deer hunting and slug shooting fun. Hastings makes them but their in France, so many made and im sure so many people here have them the market needs to be better , let me know what you think or direct me towards somewhere useful.
 
They're just so dang good at what they are and what they are intended to do that
they are left pretty much alone.
Now Remington's need all that candy to make them useful.
 
Magnum rifled barrels are available just very hard to find. Guy I hunted deer with this fall had one. Other young fella had a plain barrel on his and shot 3 deer with it.
 
Thats awesome to hear on your deer this season .... i get decent groups shooting slugs smooth bore but i mean i have a 30 " barrel with a polychoke on the end, so i would love to have the option for a 22" or something similar and if it was rifled it would be even better but I would settle for something unrifled aslong as it have sights on it....They should be left un altered i.e stupid stocks or drilled and tapped for optics or anthing unholy liek that I agree but a shorter barell option would be nice.
 
Hey now lol, I shot a deer with a red dot on top this fall on a Mossberg 835. Going with a Winchester 1300 with rifled barrel and open Williams sights. If I can't hit :bigHug::bigHug::bigHug::bigHug: with it I'm going back to the red dot.

Put an ad on the EE.

Someone might have what you are looking for.
 
I have owned a pile of Auto 5`s in 12, 16 and 20 gauges. NONE proved to be any where decent with slugs. Barrels were factory Buck versions. The recoiling barrel just cannot provide decent enough accuracy for deer hunting. Buckshot was a different sory. All proved very deadly a normal buckshot range. The rifled model barrel would be no better.

Darryl
 
Makes sense that the recoil action would screw with the accuracy of slugs, good advice madtrapper maybe if i decide to use my shotgun for deer next season ill just use buckshot. Never fired buckshot before i would assume 50 yards maxium probably less though eh. What would the spread be on that at say 50 yards?
 
Make sure you pattern your gun and know the max if you plan on using buckshot, if you are dogging a bush and are a dogger not a blocker buckshot might be useful. In the deer group I hunt with they out lawed buckshot because of too many wounded deer.

Honestly its pretty sad how many guys shoot their gun once a year at deer and never even practice before deer season.
 
Barrels for A5. From what I recall and I had a few of these over the years, only one remaining a sweet 16ga we could not afford to order an extra barrel. Rem 1100 were like 49.00 so the average gun owner would buy extra. A5 extra barrels were almost worth what you paid for the gun.That was a big part of it
Corsonsbarrels in the US will have whatever you need but 250-575 range then add another 80 bucks to get it cleared and sent to canada. Not cheap that is for sure
 
I limit all buckshot hunting shots to 30 yards. Not my ability but the gun's ability to put 4 or 5 of the big pellets into deer/bears ribcage at said distance. 3" magnum 12 gauge offers 15 pellets. Still 30 to 35 yards would be the limit. I won't advise on which choke. Pattern the gun with all chokings to see which shoots best. Buffered loads do shoot better. I once owned a Remington 1100 16 gauge that was choked modified. It would put 7 to 9 pellets into 12" at 35 yards all day long. It liked Remington loads best.

Darryl
 
fair enough thats what i would suspect for buck shot 35-40 yards max getting sufficient lead into the vitals.....when i go home after the holidays im gunna buy some buck shot loads and see how they do on targets...my 30" barrel with full choke presents pretty tight groups ill tone it down a few notches beacuse the poly choke on my shotty is set by eye not by what it says on top lol
 
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Yeah Would be nice for sure but since there isn't i was forced to refinished mine with tung oil because it was pretty beat up when i bought it, peeling bruised etc turned out decent.
 
ss1980 said:
New barrels for your A5? Haha! Just buy another A5 -- here's your new barrel. They're cheap, well made, and can shoot all day! :)
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True I can see myself buying another Auto 5 maybe a Jap made one but not really interested in the new ones, I like the old style that are made of steel and wood, just feels better to me.
 
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