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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Of the more than 30 guns John Browning designed, the Auto-5 was one of his most complex to build. In addition to shotguns, Browning developed handguns and rifles, but neither of those firearms are ...