1904 auto 5

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Hello everyone,
I love the English stock auto-5. Hère are two auto 5 dating 1904 and one 1906. I would like to restaure them, but parts are very difficult to out source. I will need two fore-end, one butt stock and à set of friction ring. It appears to me that I will have to fabricate them. I have woodworking facilities and large supplies of walnut. Has anyone had such an expérience? Thank you






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Western gun parts should have the friction rings and possibly the forearms the straight stock may be a little harder to find.
 
Good idea,
Does anyone know who has such a machine or where I can get one. Thank so much for your suggestions, I knew that I can get help here
 
Those are beautiful. I gather than the bottom two are Remington Model 11s due to their lack of a magazine cut-off, but is the one on the top a Remington as well?
 
These are all Browning auto-5. From top to bottom 1904 (with magazine cut off) 1906 and 1904. The top one is the most complete, mis sing friction ring and buttplate. It is very rare to get a 110 years old auto 5 with the original fore-end. Unfortunatly, the bottom one had one inche of the stock cutoff to accomodate a recoil pad. What a pity. Any help to restore them such as advice and parts will be greatly appreciated. I would love to pût my hand on some early Remington model 11 as well. Any leads will be well one. Thanks
 
Very interesting. I did not know that any of the FN/Browning guns were made without the cut-off. How did you figure out the exact dates? Browning's website is less than helpful for shotguns that old.
 
Yes the Browning website is not very good for historic perspective. I get the information from 3 main sources. The very nice book titled "Browning Auto-5 Shotguns" the Belgian FN production by H.M. Shirley, Jr. & Anthony Vanderlinden. The forum shotgunworld and finaly the very good forum from France Tir et collection armes réglementaires. If you can deal with the French attitude, those people have tremendous informations on any guns you can imagine. This is a very good website for gun collector. I am sûre that there are other forum that I don't know but would like to discover. Of course we shall not forget CGN.
 
They are great old guns. I have a Remington model 11 Sportsman in 16 ga with a modified choke (circa 1946). Hardly any bluing missing. Great little upland game gun. I wouldn't mind finding another old 16 ga repeater of some kind to have as a winter project.
 
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