“Tag: A5”

Browning has introduced its recoil-operated A5 shotgun with a 3 1/2-inch chamber.

Browning's new A5 semi-automatic shotgun combines the style of the original Automatic 5 with the inertia-driven operating system of the little-known Normal by Danish gunsmith Christian Sjörgren.

The ’03 Springfield, fitted with telescopic sights and fired by American soldiers and Marines, was the scourge of “No Man’s Land” during World War I.

In 1903, two semi-automatic shotguns revolutionized hunting. John M. Browning’s long-recoil-operated Automatic-5—“Five shots under your finger,” read the advertising—and Swedish gunsmith Carl Axel Theodor Sjögren’s inertia-operated “Normal” shotgun.

Browning continues to enamor its A5 aficionados, this time adding the A5 High Grade Hunter.

American Rifleman’s Kelly Young gets a closer look at Browning’s A5 Sweet Sixteen shotgun.

Browning has introduced two new shotguns—the A5 Wicked Wing and Maxus Wicked Wing autoloading shotguns.

A century ago, American snipers fought in both the trenches of France and in the open warfare that followed cracking the German lines. The courage, sacrifice and marksmanship of trained American snipers made a difference on the battlefield.

A reader inquires about an article in American Rifleman about the use of Winchester scopes as sniper optics during World War I.