M dad has an old browning a-5..very old..belgium made. the original bbl was cut many years ago for some strange reason..hacked up more like it. that bbl was replaced with a 32" full japan bbl. i have use it some and actually killed my first 2 turkeys with it as did my dad.
he wanted to go hunting some this weekend and i took him. his health is not so great having had several severe strokes leaving him legally blind..anyways..we went hunting..i had my doubts as to how it would work. he has been hung up on old lead 5s..thanks turkey thugs! well we went friday and he actually killed one. i slipped him in the only 3" nitro #7 i had left
..lead..well at 20 yards the 32" full worked very well.
long story short here..this joker is heavy! carrying it around gets old fast. we got to thinking about shaping up the short bbl to see if we could do something with it. we called up william at sumtoy and took it to him and in short order we had a cleaned up bbl threaded with tru choke threads mated up with a very sharp looking 660 to match. the bbl ended up at 20".
we shot it there at the shop and it was shooting waay high with a magnetic tru glo bead..so i found a tru glo pro series dot that jacked up the front sight lowering the poi just right. i was very skeptical when i went out today to see what it would do..i knew it should do ok..but i think we have a sho nuff killer here. i started at 30 since my dad says he will not shooot past that..but when i shot the 30 pattern i had to go to 40...
check em out
30 yards
40 yards
30 yards with daddys beloved remy nitro 5s
needless to say hes gonna go with the hevi 13s!
thanks william...it turned out great and shoots just as good.
