Browning's new A5 Auto

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Browning is re introducing a "New A5" -- recoil operated 3" Mag which they tout as being the softest shooting recoil operated shotgun on the planet -- same hump back deaigne but super racey.
http://www.browning.com/library/infonews/detail.asp?id=372
 
Don't think it's a cross -- this is pure recoil but very different from the old Auto 5's -- the Maxus is pure gas operated -- we'll have to wait and see -- If they feel anything like my sweet 16's I'll have to have one!
 
About the only thing the new Auto 5 has in common with the old Auto 5 is the hump and the name.For myself if it does not have a long recoil system and a moving barrel it is not an Auto 5.Just my opinion.
 
Thoughts that come to mind:

-Does this mean that Benelli's patents have run out? I realize that Stoeger makes inertia recoil guns, but they are made under licence from Benelli.
-Why such a tightly-hooked pistol grip? I think a more open grip would both look better and be more ergonomic.
-What's with the superfluous lines on the side of the receiver?

My take is that if they are going to name it after the Auto 5, they would do better to offer a more conventionally-styled gun. I don't think that the heritage aspect is going to matter to the demographic that likes Buck Rogers guns.
 
saennor said:
The automatic chambering of the first round BlowS mY mIND!!!
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Browning has had that for many years. The A5 with the 2-piece carrier had it and I think both the 2000 and the Double-Auto did too.

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NOT an A5, just trying to cash in on an excellent design that worked for 80-90 years.
 
saennor said:
The automatic chambering of the first round BlowS mY mIND!!!
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It's pretty sweet, but nothing new. I've retrofitted my 1952 A5 with the speed-load parts from a 1966(?) A5. It works very slick, and makes reloads on the Skeet and Trap fields very quick. None of this dropping a round in the ejection port and flipping the gun over to load it BS.
 
that commercial is brutal. like most hunting marketing, it looks like it's focused at the same people that buy dodge, wear bone collector hoodies, and bass fish. but i digress...


I was settled on a Silver Hunter for my next 12ga, now it looks like i'll have to test out this one as well.
 
pharaoh2 said:
There were other recoil operated guns on the market, the Auto-5 was one of them. The difference is the old model had the barrel sliding back.
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Yes, but the other ones don't use an inertia recoil action, which is patented by Benelli. If you look at the link posted, the way this new A5 operates is the same as a Benelli. I would be surprised if Browning actually entered into a licensing agreement with Benelli in order to build this gun.
 
Amphibious said:
that commercial is brutal. like most hunting marketing, it looks like it's focused at the same people that buy dodge, wear bone collector hoodies, and bass fish. but i digress...


I was settled on a Silver Hunter for my next 12ga, now it looks like i'll have to test out this one as well.
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The part where the gun was lifted out of the water looks familiar to me:

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