There are still a ton of great Browning Auto 5 shotguns in the used market. No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with the ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Introduced in the early 20th century, the Browning Auto-5 ...

KIRK MCINNIS died too early and too hard. Scott Wood and I cut cattail stalks for his casket spray, swatting mosquitoes in the late-summer heat, and couldn’t believe he was gone—Kirk with his ...

A certifiable work of genius, John Browning’s long-recoil Auto 5 was fifty or more years ahead of the competition. The Sweet 16 version debuted in 1937 and was made until 1975–with a break for WWII, ...

No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with the bolt, then forward as it picks up the next shell and returns to battery. That ...