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The Affinity 3 was the second Franchi auto-loader I ever shot. At least a decade prior, I had put my hands on the AL 48, a square-backed repeater with an operating system based on John Browning’s long ...

made its reputation with both civilian and military arms. Hunters in the U.S. knew Franchi for its shotguns—primarily the AL-48, a featherlight version of Browning’s long-recoil Auto 5 that became a ...

One of the most common occurrences shotgun writers see in the pumps, autoloaders, side-by-sides, and over/unders we test is that the game often completely changes once you pattern a gun at 40 yards ...

For the last 10 days of my upland season, I shot pheasants with a new Browning Citori 825. Based on my experience with that gun, and on the three days I spent in Alberta warding off swarms of ducks ...