Just picked up two for $400/each. Today is a great day. Gotta love old clients. 🙂
> Just picked up two for $400/each. Today is a great day. Gotta love old clients. 🙂
But are the Belgian?
o.O
I have a 20 gauge and a Light 12 (both Belgian). Somewhere I have a magazine end cap for a 16 (gunsmith sold me the wrong one). Those old A-5's are still some of the best guns ever made.
Andy
Both are. 🙂
a question - Browning Sweet 16
my Dad recently gave me the Browning belgian built Sweet 16 that my Grandmother gave to my Grandfather in 1928. my question is "how strong of a gun is this in reagrds to the metal?" i've been thinking of hiding behind a tree and firing off a round just to make sure of the integrity of the gun's metal with todays ammo but haven't done it yet. just wondering if this sucker is going to go "bang" or "kaboom".:-S
a question - Browning Sweet 16
I'd fire it all day long, I just wouldn't shoot magnums through it. If you're really worried, take it to a GOOD GUNSMITH and let them advise you. Low brass, with the friction rings inserted correctly, would make that an excellent bird gun, even nearly 100 years old.
BTW, if yours is that old, the safety, should be in front of the trigger guard and not behind it and should slide with the gun, instead of perpendicular to it. They stopped that in the late 30's I believe, although, when Remington made shotguns during WWII, based on Browning's dies, they were based on the older dies, and those shotguns have the safety out front instead of behind the trigger guard.
