Help in identification and value - Browning Auto

It would help us to know the gauge, chamber length, choke designation and barrel length. With the info before me now, I would say it is a $600 gun on a good day.
 
Pic indicates it is a 16 bore 2 3/4" chamber barrel appears to be 30". Standard 16 in average condition. Looks like original butt plate could be re fitted and add on pad removed. It is an Browning FN Auto 5. Screws have been well monkied with and the stock shows signs of shrinkage from the metal. Very basic gun worth about 500.00 in my opinion.

Darryl
 
The barrel stamps indicate C.16, and what appears to be 2 3/4 and 63.5mm. 63.5mm = 2 1/2", so I am not sure what the chamber length is.
The recoil pad installation is horrible. The original buttplate seems to be sandwiched on top of the rubber pad, but it appears as if the stock has been cut.
Anyway, 16ga, but unsure of chamber length. If it actually is 63.5mm/2 1/2", that would really reduce the appeal of the gun. 2 3/4" would be much more attractive.
Browning autos have slumped in value. I think $600 would be a stretch; doubt that it would bring anything close to that.
 
That poor gal.
Sheeesh.
Tidy up the butt and find some screws and iff’in
she makes the Browning clang in proper order,
maybe five brown ones if under the fore stawk
has awl the kibble’n bits.
 
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Well used and abused condition, uncertainty about chamber length, a slow seller at best. Has to be cheap to move, in my mind. $3-400 and it still might sit for a while.
 
I'd agree with the lower side of the prices given here. Epps just sold one in the last two weeks, in better shape and i don't recall all the particulars for maybe $449? again I remember they had one but since I wasn't looking for one I didn't give it a second look. Cheers.
 
I agree with the others in that the gun is not worth much but what intrigues me is the barrel markings. Some time in the 40's Browning changed the chamber length on the 16 gauges from 2 9/16 inch to 2 3/4 inch for the new longer shells. 2 9/16 inches is equal to 65 mm and the old guns were marked as such, the newer guns were marked 2 3/4 - 70 mm. So the 2 3/4 - 63.5 mm marking on this gun is not what I thought was normal. Browning has been known to make mistakes with stamps before and maybe this is the case or maybe some one else can explain it. It's also commonly thought that Browning marked all 2 3/4 - 70 mm 16 gauge guns with an X in front of the serial number, maybe the OP could tell us if this gun has the X.
 
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