Browning a5
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So I just got a used Browning A5 at Cabelas for $332. I would like to make it into a reproduction of the Browning A5s used in Rhodesia. My question is, where can I find the 9 shot magazine tube and furniture, along with any other parts I'd need? Pic related, Browning a5 from Google, I'll post pics of mine when I get home, I'm in the car now.
I wanted to get one too but with a rifled slug barrel and expanded tube.
>>30514225
You cant.
Just try to find one at auction. They run about 1400
How the fuck did you get an A5 for 300?
Post pictures I wanna see how fucked up this thing is because I've seen some hideously treated examples that wanted much more.
>>30514382
More pics incoming.
>>30514465
As far as I can tell, the only things bad are the front bead needs replaced, and the buttplate is missing.
>>30514225
>I would like to make it into a reproduction of the Browning A5s used in Rhodesia
You're boned, your best bet is to SBS it like the American style riot guns.
So I found 1 thing wrong, the loading gate won't move, so I can't load any shells into the magazine tube. Any ideas on what it could be and how to fix it?
>>30514732
That's kind of a biggie, how did that get by you in the store?
>>30514732
hopefully it's just a spent primer jammed in there somewhere
>>30514732
buttstroke the ground. should release the recoil lock and let you move stuff around.
>>30514868
>how did that get by you in the store?
because /pol/ doesn't know how to function check
>>30514732
You have to press a button on the side to load it iirc
>>30514888
Tried that, didn't work.
>>30514868
>>30514923
Fair enough, that was stupid of me, and I should have paid closers attention.
More info, the serial number dates it at 1948 and it was made in Belgium if that helps. It moves when I'm moving the bolt, but if the bolt is all the way forward or back, it wont.
>>30514958
That worked, problem solved.
>>30514525
ya dingus
>>30514961
Nice, I dig the older ones over the bullshit A5 their pushing now. It's practically a different gun at this point.
>>30514868
I work at a gun store, and we don't allow you to load firearms in the store. Maybe that's why, but you can check that with your thumb
>>30515019
Not even snap caps?
Alright, now that the loading is figured out, all I can see that's wrong is a missing front sight bead, and buttplate/recoil pad thing.
>>30515071
Forgot new pic.
>>30514465
Thumbnail is a content face.
>>30514980
You're welcome bb
>>30514225
Just build one. Buy a man tube, pull off your current forend, find anyone in your area that does wood work and tell em you need the length extended by X inches, then strip and refinish the wood.
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=400524
Google is pretty useful.
>>30515013
Right? That was such a fucking let down
