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Originally Posted by CraigThompson
I doubt seriously if this barrel was on the gun when it left the factory . When it was consigned to us almost two years ago it came with a 30" full and 32" full barrel . The other two barrels were sold separately . I would like to have had the 32" barrel as well . Oh the barrel is a vent rib . I have looked quite a bit thru old Shooters Bibles and this 28" mod barrel is the most open vent rib barrel I could find for an A-5 magnum . Did they ever make an A-5 12 mag vent rib barrel that was IC ?
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In many years of buying, selling and trading A-5s, I have never heard of nor seen a 3" Mag barrel bored IC; of course that doesn't mean they never made one. For years off and on I worked for a major Browning dealer based out of Washington DC (am I dating myself much!!?) with satellite stores in the MD and VA suburbs. In all that time I saw exactly ONE nib Belgium A-5 3" Mag that came from the factory with a 28" VR barrel; the man I sold it to still has it. He did a lot of pit hunting for Canada geese and was an ardent duck hunter as well. My brother (a good friend of his) and I have tried to buy it back from him a number of times, and his answer is always the same: "Talk to my kids when I die!".
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