"Sportsman" shoulda tipped me off. But hey, like Marks_21, I'm a sxs guy. When I was a teenager there were a lot more Remington A-5 clones than there were Brownings around. Kids with a rich Daddy had Sweet-Sixteens.
The fancy A-5 I posted was never mine. A friend of one of my sons inherited it from his Grandfather and brought it to me to evaluate. It was a WW2 bring-back from Germany. The kid was so wrapped up in birthing babies, he needed the cash more than he wanted the gun.
It was in pretty poor but completely original shape except for an added pad. His Grandfather had been a 'woods rider' back in the turpentine days and the boy had a picture of him in the palmettos on a horse with the gun across his saddle horn. I'll bet it accounted for a heap of quail.
I told him what I thought it was worth and trolled it around here a few years ago and on other gun sites until he connected with a collector and got the money he wanted. I thought he was nuts to sell it and I never considered buying it from him. I knew his Mama and didn't want to face her wrath for beating her kid out of of his Granddaddy's most prized possession...Geo
