There are still a ton of great Browning Auto 5 shotguns in the used market. No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with ...

In all, the new A5 Hunter 20 a great addition to Browning’s semiauto lineup—and possibly to your own personal shotgun lineup, too.

The Browning A5 shares a profile and a nickname with John M. Browning’s classic Automatic 5 semiauto, but inside it’s a different completely different gun. The new A5 is an inertia-operated ...

Everything I liked about the 12-gauge version of the A5 shotgun back then, I now love in the 20-gauge iteration of the A5, which Browning introduced this year. We had the chance to range test the 20 ...

four years before the first Browning Auto-5 shipped. Like many of today’s guns, this story begins at the workbench of John Moses Browning. Browning knew at the time that he had a revolutionary ...

This article, "The Legendary A5", appeared originally in the June 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman ...

Before I share my top picks with you, we need to discuss the Browning Auto 5. We need to start with this epic boomstick to know how the modern semi-auto shotgun industry started. The Browning Auto ...

Introduced in the early 20th century, the Browning Auto-5 was the first commercially successful autoloading shotgun. A revolutionary design at the time, the Auto-5 worked by harnessing the gasses ...

Before I share my top picks with you, we need to discuss the Browning Auto 5. We need to start with this epic boomstick to know how the modern semi-auto shotgun industry started. The Browning Auto ...

No other shotgun feels quite like an original Browning Auto 5 when it goes off. The entire barrel moves backward with the bolt, then forward as it picks up the next shell and returns to battery. That ...