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The Browning A5 shotgun lineup shares beneficial branding and name recognition with its A5 namesake from decades earlier, but it’s been repeatedly tweaked and upgraded to share less than possibly expected with the original. The result of all this hard development and years of experience is what Browning calls the planet’s “most reliable, fastest cycling, best performing and softest shooting recoil-operated” autoloader shotgun.

The A5 range’s visual signature is its characteristic humpback, but its staid heart is the versatile, all-weather, recoil-operated Kinematic Drive System. Browning proclaims reliability, but then backs it up with a compelling 100,000 round or five-year guarantee.

A5s can handle various ammunition down to one ounce loads without requiring adjustments. Cleverly designed venting outlets evacuate gases from the barrel and keep parts cleaner and operating more smoothly than they might otherwise.

A5 bolts are hard chrome plated. The rest of the bolt carrier group is nickel Teflon coated for a durable protective coating. The receiver is made of lightweight aluminum alloy. Its humpback shape promotes fast sighting because the sight plane is longer.

The A5 range comes with a set of interchangeable Invector-DS system choke tubes though as with all else, various models have different tube sets.

A5s feature an oversized bolt latch in front of the trigger guard, right where you want it. The trigger guard is also oversized so you can operate the gun while wearing gloves.

A5s use a Speed Unload feature to easily empty any shells all at once. The butt stock is a straight stock design. There are .25” and .5” stock spacers for length of pull adjustments that can be combined for a total .75” length of pull adjustment. In back is an Inflex recoil pad. Browning uses them with quite a few models. They’re well-known for being highly absorbent and for directing what’s left of felt recoil forces down instead of straight back.

The TurnKey magazine plug blocks the magazine for safety when you don’t want anyone else messing with it. The gun also ships both with a free locking device for safe storage and a tough impact resistant thermoplastic ABS polymer case.

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