The Browning A5, like most inertia guns, is quite light. This one, with a 28-inch barrel, weighs in at 6 ¾ pounds. That is way too light for a 3 ½-inch 12 gauge (I’ve shot 3 1/2s out of this ...

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 ...

When Browning introduced the 12-gauge A5 a dozen or so years ago ... With a weight of just 5 pounds, 10 ounces with a 28-inch barrel, it was a joy to carry. Recoil was not terrible, due to ...

The A5 also has the 0.742-inch overbored barrel common to modern Browning 12 gauges as well as ... It’s light (my synthetic stocked, 26-inch barreled test gun weighed just under 7 pounds ...

The old Auto-5 (which was designed by John Browning and went out of production in 1999) was a long-recoil-operated action in which the barrel and ... Hevi-Bismuth load: 3-inch, 1 ⅛ oz, No ...

In 2012, Browning again met Sjögren, in the form of Browning’s new inertia-operated A5. Produced first in 12-ga. models, when the 16 gauge came along in 2016 it was built on its own scaled frame.

But the looks and receiver profile are where the similarities between the old Auto-5 and the new A5 end. The old Auto-5 (which was designed by John Browning and went out of production in 1999) was a ...

Here is a look at how the Browning A5 patterned from 35 yards inside a 30-inch circle through a modified choke. We patterned each test gun with Federal Speed Shok 3-inch, No. 2s with a muzzle velocity ...