Bruce Hart Double Auto Collector
 

And here's the guy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW_...re=emb_rel_end

That 2019 trip ended in So Cal with a visit to Angelo Bee in my hometown of Chatsworth.
Art was doing a custom 28 ga Superposed for me and Angelo was engraving it.
After an afternoon at the Pacific Ocean I had the pleasure of breaking bread with Art and Brad.

I took them to the #1 Delicatessen in the country, Brents.
Blackened pastrami sandwiches on double baked rye.

https://i.imgur.com/9JkCO0F.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NbFM312.jpg

What does it weigh?

The sandwich style is call a “Deli Stack” and weighs a half pound.

My bad.

The Twentyweight is exactly 12 and 1/2 Brents Blackened Pastrami Sandwiches.

https://i.imgur.com/Juk0bHK.jpg

I recently picked up my second Browning Double Auto. A 1969 production, flat knob stock, plastic butt plate, an alloy receiver "Twelvette" with a 26" Vent Rib barrel choked Imp Cylinder, in excellent condition. It weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces. It cycles my 7/8 oz reloads at 1200 fps with authority. DA's are really nice guns.

Is this gun the modern day answer to Frank Woolner’s modified Winchester 59 grouse and woodcock gun?





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Here's mine it's a twentyweight double automatic at 6lb 6oz made in 1961

The production of the Winchester Model 59 overlapped with the production of the Browning DA. Their production numbers were similar but the DA had a longer run. Which one is a better light 12 semi auto for upland hunting? I would say that depends on the bias of what one likes.

I'm a Winchester shooter and collector, but given the choice between the pedestrian Model 59 and the beautiful and sleek Double Auto, I would pick a lighter model of the Double Auto for a deep brush grouse hunt.