My old Browning Auto 5
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:56 pm
Here's my old Belgian FN Browning Auto 5 dating from around 1963 (we think! ) I've had this for well over 20 years and it was getting very tired, the original fore-end was cracked and had had numerous repairs so it wasn't good to shoot 
So I thought i'd give the old girl a makeover!
A new fore-end is silly money over here so I pushed the boat out and had Boyds in the USA make me a custom laminated stock and fore-end for less than the price fore-end alone in the UK (fitted in around 2 hours)
As there was next to no finish left on the action and barrel it was painted with high temperature green stove paint just to add to the camo look
It's not used often but at least now I can use it as it shoots really well and with a ventilated polychoke (slug to extra full choke) it can be used for anything :goodjob:
So I thought i'd give the old girl a makeover!
A new fore-end is silly money over here so I pushed the boat out and had Boyds in the USA make me a custom laminated stock and fore-end for less than the price fore-end alone in the UK (fitted in around 2 hours)
As there was next to no finish left on the action and barrel it was painted with high temperature green stove paint just to add to the camo look
It's not used often but at least now I can use it as it shoots really well and with a ventilated polychoke (slug to extra full choke) it can be used for anything :goodjob: