Sweet 16 Success

JMc

JMc

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Hit the fields yesterday with a group of 14, my boy Taz and my new to me 67' A5 Sweet Sixteen. A buddy had given me a box of Federal 2.75 magnum 4's. Zikes...birds folded like a linen napkin. I think she's a keeper!
 
Jim, glad you like your Sweet Sixteen. Love mine. I 've been shooting my '60 Sweet all season. Yesterday I took my 16 ga. Citori on a hunt where there were a lot of birds. Couldn't hit crap. Then every time I shot and missed and was in the process of reloading a nice big rooster would get up close and fly away. Back to the Sweet.
 
Awesome for both of you.

My "Sweet" 16 is and has been sitting in the gun safe pretty much all year. Took me all my life to get me the one I wanted. A 1960, round nob, 28" Mod choke vent rib, unaltered. factory length butt stock and factory horn butt plate. It was very tough to find.

Maybe some day I will feel better and I'll get it back in the field chasing roosters. I have about 40 boxes of shells for it.

Those 16's and 20 A5's sure do carry nice and the sight plain from behind that square back receiver is second to none. Pull up and it's there..Boom.."Dead Bird"

Enjoy them Sweet's you two
 
JMc,

Consider yourself very fortunate. I am happy for you(and a tad bit jealous of your Sweet 16).

May you and your family have a Merry and Blessed Christmas.
 
onpoint said:
Those 16's and 20 A5's sure do carry nice and the sight plain from behind that square back receiver is second to none. Pull up and it's there..Boom.."Dead Bird"
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You are oh so right. I never owned an A5 until I got this Sweet a couple seasons ago. Can't believe what I missed in my first 55 years of hunting. :)

I've probably stated this before but just an FYI for those that don't know this. The 20 gauge A5's are actually built on the 16 gauge frame. Most parts are interchangable.
 
Dakotazeb said:
You are oh so right. I never owned an A5 until I got this Sweet a couple seasons ago. Can't believe what I missed in my first 55 years of hunting. :)

I've probably stated this before but just an FYI for those that don't know this. The 20 gauge A5's are actually built on the 16 gauge frame. Most parts are interchangable.
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I can't be positive, but I have been told that the A5's in 12, 16(Sweet) and 20. Had each their own frame. I should take a mic and compare my 20's and 16's. I have a standard 16, sweet 16 and two 20ga magnums.

The Model 12 pump Winchester 16ga pump was also built on the 20ga frame.

For those looking for as close as you can get to these two,in a gun made recently. The Browning BPS 16ga was built on the 20ga frame as I understand. You can still find some new ones around on Gun Broker.
 
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I read somewhere that the 20 was built on the 16 gauge frame. Browning actually made the A5 in 16 gauge before they came out with a 20 gauge. I can't find anything right now to verify this but if you go to a gun parts web site and look at the parts list the A5 16 and 20 are the same. Check out this site. http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/ctgy/browning-auto-5-parts

The butt stock is the same, the friction rings are the same, trigger plate the same, etc.
 
You may be right. I know the stocks and friction rings are the same. My 20ga frame looks smaller but that could be a optical illusion too.
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i have an a-5 12 ga i bought used when i was 14,40 yrs ago.Im pretty sure it was built around 1954,i could never hit any thing with that gun.
this is regrettable as I think that the most dependable semi auto shot gun that was invented.you gotta love that magazine cut off,also the way one shove shells in the bottom and they automatically chamber,sweet.a lot of thought went into the design of those guns.perhaps i should take mine out and pattern it after all these years,i might learn something.
 
pointshoot said:
i have an a-5 12 ga i bought used when i was 14,40 yrs ago.Im pretty sure it was built around 1954,i could never hit any thing with that gun.
this is regrettable as I think that the most dependable semi auto shot gun that was invented.you gotta love that magazine cut off,also the way one shove shells in the bottom and they automatically chamber,sweet.a lot of thought went into the design of those guns.perhaps i should take mine out and pattern it after all these years,i might learn something.
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The reason you can't hit anything is because it's not a "Sweet". 16 ga. that is! :)
 
onpoint said:
It's the "Purple" shells..they are Magic:D
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I wish they would standardize 16 gauge shells and make they all PURPLE. Right now I have them in Purple, Red, Green and Blue.
 
I hear ya, I have preached this on all gauges for years.
 
im gonna give old a5 an oil change and take it for a walk saturday with the kid
i've been thinking about put it back "on the road"any way
 
A-5 12

I have a chance to buy a A-5 12G from a neighbor. It's in new condition, like right out of the box new. He wants $800 for it. I'm shooting a Benelli M2 with pretty good results, especially after putting in an IC choke tube. Does going between guns mess you up so you end up shooting both like crap, or is it nice to have a little variety. Maybe I should wait for a Sweet 16, but this is really a nice gun. What do you think?
 
Once you experience the sight plain of the old A5. It's tough to be it. What will make you go.."Ha?" is the double shuffle of the long recoil design. I have no issue with it as I have shot a A5 all my life. $800 for a like new one is a pretty fair deal, weather it was made in Japan or Belgium.
 
Here's my "Sweet 16" that I used in South Dakota this year. I bought it new in 1991 for $550. That was a lot a money for a young school teacher back then. A couple of thousand Tennessee quail and a few SD pheasants latter, that seems like a good deal now.

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