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Originally Posted by Joe Dreisch
Love the way the Browning Auto-5 loads a round right into the chamber from the magazine when loading an empty gun! Very quickly puts you back in action... Good shooting, Jerry!
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Joe,
I believe Val Browning was the one that came up with the auto-load feature for a shell put into the magazine. This feature I understand was one of the reasons production moved from Belgium to Japan as the many parts and complicated feature cost too much to make in Belgium, and eventually resulted in the demise of the expensive A5 compared to other autos. But one can't beat the quality of the original A5! A couple of times with a bird that just hit the ground, and one falling, I was pulling the trigger on an empty chamber. The winter doves are the greatest hunting of all here. To heck with sitting in a deer stand.