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Does anyone know what and how the spring, bushing and ring(s) differ from those used on the Lightweight belgian A-5 12 gauge. Can you fired and have the 3" magnum with field loads, as I can with my Lightweight A-5?? RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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The short answer is 'maybe'. There will be a certain minimum recoil impulse necessary for functioning. A stout field load should work, a target load probably not. https://www.browning.com/support/frequen...-my-auto-5.html
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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My Dad had a mid 1980s Japanese imvector choked magnum A5, that never ran reliably on any 2 3/4” non-magnum load.
Some use and sag in the action spring might have helped, but, he sold the gun and bought a Stupid Black Eagle.
Out of the fire, and into the pan.
Best,
Ted
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I had a 3 inch A5 and got it to work well with light loads.
What I did was change the recoil spring to one from a 2 3/4 AND a spacer to make up the difference in the spring length.
No other combination of rings or spacers was consistently successful.
Worked for me.
YMMV.
Dumb, but learning...Prof Em, BSc(ME), CAE (FYI)
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When I owned one (and before I sold it to my waterfowl-hunting buddy who loves it) the only thing it would cycle reliably other than 3" loads was 2.75" max dram 1 1/4 oz. AA pigeon loads. They are purpose-built guns.
Bruce
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True enough.
I have most of the variants, I lack a Mag 12 and a standard weight 16. Just no real use for either.
The mag 20 may be the best of the breed. It will in fact shoot any 20 gauge shell and it weighs and handles exactly like a Sweet Sixteen.
A5's are fun.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I used one for around 15 years with the light setting above for all duck and goose hunting. Used only steel and bismuth, never had a problem or felt beat up. That gun weighs 8.75 lbs
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Thanks, gents. Might buy the 3"Mag as it is a "Belgie" RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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My duck hunting buddy and the Germans from Russia around here used to call them "Belchin Browniks"
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