A new forum !!! Vintage Turkey Guns....

[Yoder409]

Noticed last night that Shannon has added a new forum for vintage turkey guns.   It's under "Turkey Guns & Shooting".

For those of you/us who like to go old skool at times.....

[ScottTaulbee]

Likely to ruffle some feathers but had dreamed of owning a Belgium Browning Auto 5 since a kid when I saw my papaw and uncle shooting theirs. My papaw had a set of all the models and gauges of the Auto 5. Anyway, fall of 2019 I got the opportunity to buy a 1964 Magnum 12 at a price I could afford and got it. I duck hunted with it that winter and this is the first turkey I took with it that following spring. It came with a 26" Japanese barrel that accepts choke tubes and the original 32" fixed full barrel with no rib. I have taken a boatload of waterfowl with it since, a truck load of dove, shot sporting clays, shot 97 out of 100 with it in my first registered ATA trap shoot, and won a 300$ custom duck call with it last year at a trap shoot in extremely high winds. 40+ mph. This season I'll be using it with the original barrel to turkey hunt again. This was my dream gun for 20 years for me and it's one that I wouldn't take 1mil for. It'll be passed down with the condition that it can never be sold or traded outside of the family.


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[ShootingABN!]

My Father has one of those Belgium Browning. 28" Modified barrel, only takes 2 3/4". My grandfather (his father in law)sold it to him. I believe when mom and dad got married.  It hold a lot of sentimental value.  Dad is so proud of that gun. I've never shot it.
I might just have to turkey hunt with it at least once.

[Joneshunter]

My dad had a 20 gauge a5 from when he was a kid and that thing shot like a dream.. I wish I could change chokes might have to buy another barrel but the ejector broke so when I shoot a shell it doesn't kick out... when it was fully functional that thing shot amazing

[James gang]

Have my grandpa's old A-5 it's priceless to me.I swear when I shoot that thing and smell the gunpowder it feels like he's sitting right next to me.

[grayfox]

Scott that brings back some old memories. I still have my Dad's old A-5 Light Twelve & still love that gun. It used to seem like it just shot where I looked. When I was a young man around where I grew up if you wanted a gun to bang every time you pulled the trigger you bought a Browning A-5. I still think they are one of the best shotguns ever made.

[ScottTaulbee]

My Father has one of those Belgium Browning. 28" Modified barrel, only takes 2 3/4". My grandfather (his father in law)sold it to him. I believe when mom and dad got married.  It hold a lot of sentimental value.  Dad is so proud of that gun. I've never shot it.
I might just have to turkey hunt with it at least once.

You absolutely should!


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[ScottTaulbee]

Have my grandpa's old A-5 it's priceless to me.I swear when I shoot that thing and smell the gunpowder it feels like he's sitting right next to me.

I believe that buddy!


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[ScottTaulbee]

Scott that brings back some old memories. I still have my Dad's old A-5 Light Twelve & still love that gun. It used to seem like it just shot where I looked. When I was a young man around where I grew up if you wanted a gun to bang every time you pulled the trigger you bought a Browning A-5. I still think they are one of the best shotguns ever made.

Yes sir, knock on wood I've never had it not go bang. When I got it I replaced the springs, the friction rings and the friction brakes. It still has the original wooden plug in it. I personally would take it over any shotgun on the market. I don't use it as much as I'd like because I'm trying to maintain the original finish, but I make it a point to use it any time I'm wing shooting, or have the kids with me!.


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[ScottTaulbee]

Here's a few more pictures of it


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