Munster927
Well-known member
Have a question for all of you new A5 shooters on here. This weekend I shot my brand new A5 sweet sixteen and it appears to have some issues out of the box. I loaded it up with some federal game loads, and tried to cycle the gun through 3 shells. It shot once and then failed to eject the shell, the bolt opened and came back all the way but the shell was still in the chamber. I manually pulled the shell out, shot again, same result.
Thinking it was maybe a result of the lighter game loads, I put in 3 federal pheasant loads. Shot once, gun cycled normally, second shot, shell failed to eject.
The next day, I shot some clays with some mixed results. I shot a box of shells, and maybe every 4th or 5th shell I would have a failure. Anyone have any insight on my problem? I'm planning on calling Browning this morning but wanted to see if anyone here had any thoughts or similar issues.
For clarity, I did fully strip the gun and cleaned and oiled prior to shooting. So the gun has had a full cleaning out of the box.
I did some googling over the weekend as well and found people on forums a few years ago saying Browning knew of issues with the gun and sent people a new extractor which resolved their problems. They had photos of the old and new extractor and the extractor in my gun looks just like the extractor that people were having replaced. I did confirm via the serial number that the gun was manufactured in 2022.
Any help is appreciated.
Thinking it was maybe a result of the lighter game loads, I put in 3 federal pheasant loads. Shot once, gun cycled normally, second shot, shell failed to eject.
The next day, I shot some clays with some mixed results. I shot a box of shells, and maybe every 4th or 5th shell I would have a failure. Anyone have any insight on my problem? I'm planning on calling Browning this morning but wanted to see if anyone here had any thoughts or similar issues.
For clarity, I did fully strip the gun and cleaned and oiled prior to shooting. So the gun has had a full cleaning out of the box.
I did some googling over the weekend as well and found people on forums a few years ago saying Browning knew of issues with the gun and sent people a new extractor which resolved their problems. They had photos of the old and new extractor and the extractor in my gun looks just like the extractor that people were having replaced. I did confirm via the serial number that the gun was manufactured in 2022.
Any help is appreciated.