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I have been saving up for the new browning A5, just wondering if anybody has one or knows someone who does? Any input anybody has heard would be awesome! Thanks

Duck Hammer is the resident Browning nut job...

Feelin' Fowl wrote:Duck Hammer is the resident Browning nut job...

I got one right after they came out and haven't had any major problems with it. I think I have put about 3 cases of shells through it ranging from Hevi Metal 3" to Federal game loads, and it hasn't missed a lick. As far as I'm concerned you cannot stop them. I crawled 250-300 yards through a wheat field right after it rained and pretty much drug that gun the whole time filling it with mud. When it came time to shoot it fired off all three times without a hitch. After I got home and completely broke the gun down it was almost completely full of mud but you wouldn't have know that by how it functioned. Basically I hung up my Nova and haven't looked back. Hope all that made sense.

From what I've seen, heard, and witnessed, I would give them a year or two to work out the kinks. Or buy an older A5.

I held a new one in Feb. It seemed like a nice gun, very light weight.

jarbo03 wrote:From what I've seen, heard, and witnessed, I would give them a year or two to work out the kinks. Or buy an older A5.

The reason I asked is because I've been shooting old A5s my whole life, it's basically all my dad my grandpa and my great grandpa have ever shot, I come from a HUGE browning family! So I wanted to see if it was the same quality before I shelled out $1,500. What problems have you heard?

IndianaMallard64 wrote:

jarbo03 wrote:From what I've seen, heard, and witnessed, I would give them a year or two to work out the kinks. Or buy an older A5.

The reason I asked is because I've been shooting old A5s my whole life, it's basically all my dad my grandpa and my great grandpa have ever shot, I come from a HUGE browning family! So I wanted to see if it was the same quality before I shelled out $1,500. What problems have you heard?

Its definitely not the same gun. Its hard for me to go back to my old Auto 5 now but not impossible. I have had a problem with its feeding mechanism. Its a little over engineered.

That is not while it is shooting but originally loading it. Just to clarify.

I've only shot my A5 at clays for the most part and only time I break one is pure luck. Drives me crazy cause I love that old thing.

Jr and I gave them a very hard look, only thing remotely close to the original auto 5 is the humped receiver, which is kind of a negative

jehler wrote:Jr and I gave them a very hard look, only thing remotely close to the original auto 5 is the humped receiver, which is kind of a negative

Looking down it I feel like I could snipe anything from the sky. Once I'm shooting I think I'm having to hold my head up to see down the barrel and not down on the stock like I'm used to.

I know of 2 people who have had FTC or FTF. A good friend of mine is a Browning freak, before buying my A5 Mag, I asked him what he thought of his. He said he would sell me his cheap, but woyld recommend an older model, he has went back to shooting his Silver.
They'll get it worked out soon.

jarbo03 wrote:I know of 2 people who have had FTC or FTF. A good friend of mine is a Browning freak, before buying my A5 Mag, I asked him what he thought of his. He said he would sell me his cheap, but woyld recommend an older model, he has went back to shooting his Silver.
They'll get it worked out soon.

Smart man, my silver has treated me very well.

IndianaMallard64 wrote:I have been saving up for the new browning A5, just wondering if anybody has one or knows someone who does? Any input anybody has heard would be awesome! Thanks

Sorry to side track your thread, to be clear I have a older A5 and no experience with the new ones.

The Duck Hammer wrote:Hope all that made sense.

it didn't. I don't think any gun, even my Benelli would shot fulla mud

I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

No loyalty to a certain maker. Grew up shooting a model 12 and A5

Redbeard wrote:No loyalty to a certain maker. Grew up shooting a model 12 and A5

Yep. Whatever works is good for me. Have many different brands in my gun case.

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

what?

Redbeard wrote:

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

what?

I am agreeing with you in TomKat speak

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

He likes whatever Willie signed a contract saying they like.

Redbeard wrote:

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

what?

I hear that Mossberg makes the same quality guns as Benelli, just a lot cheaper...

The Duck Hammer wrote:

Redbeard wrote:

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

what?

I hear that Mossberg makes the same quality guns as Benelli, just a lot cheaper...

Ha ha yeah they do.

Ground chuck is the same as prime rib, too.

Tomkat wrote:

The Duck Hammer wrote:

Redbeard wrote:

Tomkat wrote:

Redbeard wrote:I don't get why anyone wouldn't wanna get what's tried and true. When a new duck gun comes out, I wanna give it time to prove itself. When I got my SBE II i knew it was proven. It was either that, an Extrema or Silver. Shot the benelli and beretta and both and bought the one that felt better in my hands. The silver I never got to shoot. Looked at and played with the, at the time, new Vinci. Couldn't care less how it looked. It pointed great when I shouldered it. But it was new and unproven.

Yeah but Phil Robertson said the Vinchi was a great gun right after they came out. Isn't that good enough?

Oh yes, he likes Mossberg now, right?

what?

I hear that Mossberg makes the same quality guns as Benelli, just a lot cheaper...

Ha ha yeah they do.

Ground chuck is the same as prime rib, too.

That's what I'm sayin.

Do yourself a favor and get one of a400 guns. The new a5 is good but not beretta good.

We've ow put several hundred rounds through jr's a400, it's really nice, but it's no sbe2