Browning a5

[Rich52]

no offense but you judge the book by it's cover and you look like an idiot to me. I jump shoot waterfowl on rivers and streams. That takes a lot of sneaking about. The Benelli has the smoothest most quiet action out there. It is totally waterproof. The saftey features alone blow the competition out of the water. Tom Knapp seems to think so too, seeing as how he has a Benelli with over 400,000 rounds fired through it with no breakdowns hanging in the smithsonian.

Go get one and wake up to perfection.

Your a fool. A Punk and a fool.

[skorpion]

oh i can just feel the love in this thread....       ^^^^^

[Reaper90]

Benellis are good guns, sure.

If someone gave me one... I'd sell it and buy another A5 to go with the two I already have, right beside the 30-06 BAR and the camo'd BPS pump magnum 12.

[Reaper90]

your all pansies for having to kill deer with a gun 

This thread is about shotguns used for shooting birds. WTF are you talking about shooting deer?

ARCHERY FTW! 

^ that is the only real way to kill a deer. not with a gun that can possibly ruin the meat on the animal, i had a friend who's dad used a winchester .308 on a deer and he didnt get to use the back left leg or the right front leg because the bullet tore up so much meat the way it passed thru.

Learning to aim would help keep that meat from being ruined. Just a tip.

I've shot plenty of deer and hogs with my 30.06 Browning BAR and never had a problem with ruined meat.



Just in case you're wondering, the top one is for birds, the bottom one is for large 2 or 4 legged critters at long ranges. 

[RichardDarkwood]

Your a fool. A Punk and a fool.

I love you 2


You could jump shoot on the river if there was a path for your walker running next to it I understand your upset.

Re-read my earlier post, I already have a A5 as well as many other guns listed and not listed on here.

[Reaper90]

LOL. I've "jump shot" on a river, even though it is illegal here in SC (I do not advocate illegal hunting, FWIW, I was young and stupid, and we passed the game warden on the way to the landing, he and his boat and trailer were stuck in a ditch   ). I had the A5 that day, medium choke. Bagged 2 doubles, and a triple, on wood ducks, plus 2 gadwalls and a black duck as singles. The triple was with #2 steel shot and a plug in the gun, as all we had was steel.... and the 3rd shot was 50+ yards at 90 degrees, tree top height. I know because to this day 24 years later I know the exact spot where my boat was when I fired, and where I collected the duck on the far bank of the Waccamaw river. Lucky shot, no doubt, single pellet killed him.  

But still, the A5 is no slouch.

Like I said..... I'd sell that Eye-talian gun and buy me another Browning.  

[RichardDarkwood]

Brownings are over rated and have way more recoil than the benelli.

Jump shooting isn't illegal in Ohio. Were not in a major fly zone here.

[Golfer]

Brownings are over rated and have way more recoil than the benelli.

Jump shooting isn't illegal in Ohio. Were not in a major fly zone here.

Take it easy on the Kool-aid, sparky.

Benelli makes a good shotgun.  Browning makes a good everything.  An A5 is hands down one of the best proven firearms in the history of firearms and I'd love to get my hands on a good copy of a Belgian made one for the right price or without waiting for my uncle to pass away to inherit his.

If you want to start throwing out one having more recoil than another, you've lost me in the discussion.  2 things:

1.) Newton
2.) Man up.

I won't listen and give stock to your argument of a Browning being "overrated" when you're slogging around a Nova.  The gun doesn't makes the marksman.  The weapon doesn't make the hunter.  Plenty of knuckleheads take their Novas and Super Novas out without being able to hit the broad side of a barn and say the same things about how technically superior the brochure calls their gun.  Well, over a century has passed since John Browning got that one right so I'd sure as heck that with 100 years of technology to draw from it would be.

[RichardDarkwood]

I have hunted with my A5, many shells have been ejected.

The Super Nova recoil system allows you to pick up the targets way better, and it just shoots really smooth.

Now a better made firearm is my trap gun. And yes the shotgun does make a difference. Perazzi shotguns can make a big difference.

[canacka]

I think what many are getting at here is that if you believe that a certain gun makes it better for you, then it does for you.  Don't knock down another firearm because you have trouble with it.  Everyone's different, shoots different, stands different, pulls the trigger rather then squeeze it, can't take a kick bigger then what a .22 can produce,...........

[RichardDarkwood]

Keep in mind I have an A5 as well.

It makes it better and more productive is what I meant.

[curry1]

Good times right there.

Put those A5's away and get yourselves a Benelli and stop wasting your time. Keep in ming I have an A5 as well. Time to yield to the new generation of waterfowl devastation weapons.

HOW DARE YOU SLIGHT JOHN MOSES BROWNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   MER'ICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mbailey]

I own an A5 (1955) and IMHO my 2 Benelli shotguns (M1 tactical and Super Black Eagle) are by far better hunting guns. The Tactical i have set up for slug hunting deer. The SBE I use for waterfowl and on occasion sporting clays (when i dont feel like cleaning my Beretta O/U, my Citori, or the weather isn't the best).  I can shoot 200 rounds on the course with my Benelli and be no worse for wear, Its down right pleasant to shoot. The A5 after a day of active upland bird hunting (pheasants / quail / Chucker etc can really wear on the shoulder, to the point that i normally keep it in the guncase and grab my SBE. With the lack of recoil, my secondary shots (if im shooting at 2 birds), and target re-acquisition (if i miss one) are much quicker.  Heck, my M1 Tactical with 3" Brenneke slugs doesnt buck as bad as the A5.

Not knocking Browning in anyway, I work in a gunshop / indoor range P/T and we sell a ton of them, and I myself also own 4 Brownings, an A5, a Citori Grade VI O/U, a BPS and an ABolt) but when it comes to my everyday hunting shotguns,I always seem to grab my Benelli, in a word, they have perfected the semi auto shotgun and their inertia recoil system......period.

Oh.......and Reaper, that rifle looks like a really nic set up, I wish like heck we could hunt in PA with Semi Auto rifles  


 

[RichardDarkwood]

Technology scares some people mbailey. M1 tactical is puttin the serious scunion on some deer. With those hornaday slugs you can drop a deer at 250 easy. My hunting parter since we was kids uses the M1 Tactical and last year he dropped 3 deer at 175+, he is old school as far as waterfowl goes, he uses a Marlin bolt action " Goose Master " with the 36" barrel.

[SmokinLoon]

Technology scares some people mbailey. M1 tactical is puttin the serious scunion on some deer. With those hornaday slugs you can drop a deer at 250 easy. My hunting parter since we was kids uses the M1 Tactical and last year he dropped 3 deer at 175+, he is old school as far as waterfowl goes, he uses a Marlin bolt action " Goose Master " with the 36" barrel.

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Damn, you really did drink the Benelli kool-aid.  The "technology" they are using is nothing new, I think it was the French around WWI who first used the inertia system in an MG design that Benelli is trumpeting as their own.  Or was it the Czechs? I forgot. Either way, I'll give them credit for using plastics and alloys in new manners, but still they are nothing to place on a pedestal.

250 yards with a shotgun slug? Maybe with damned good optics.