claro - that's my impression too. i'd posted once asking if anyone had ever encountered an auto-5 with salt wood. i know between my father and i we've owned several of those from the right era that were fine but they were all the blond french walnut. i've had a couple of BAR's that were in affected years and were likewise "clean".

browning was not the only gunmaker affected by this. they just seemed to get all the bad press because they actually did something about it.