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Browning A5 friction rings

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  • gordo5
    I need some help setting up the friction rings on an 30's vintage 16 gage A5 with a Weaver compensator and choke tubes. It has a white metal ring about 1/8 inch thick with a bevel, a brass ring with a bevel with a steel spring around it and the main recoil spring. I read information on a site related to the Remington model 11's which indicated that with a Cutts compensator the white metal ring and spring went on first and then the brass friction ring with the bevel toward the muzzle.

    It seems to me that was the way I always had it set in the past and it worked fine with factory 7 1/2 or 8 loads I shot a few clays with. How would I set it for heavier hunting loads? For example, a load for turkey.

    Thanks, Hlouie
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  • Jim Rehm
    The Browning manual is available on line. For light loads it shows a steel ring, flat side down against the recoil spring, then a brass ring in the tapered cut and then the barrel. For heavy loads an additional steel ring is added with the tapered side against the previously installed brass ring followed by another steel ring with the flat side against the previous steel ring and finally a second brass ring which mates with the barrel. Basically steel-brass- steel-steel- brass. Hope this helps.
    Jim
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  • MIKE WISKEY
    for a 2 3/4" a-5 it goes like this
    light loads= steel ring on the mag tube 1st, then spring, then bronze
    hvy. loads= spring on 1st, then steel ring (flat side against spring) then the bronze pcs.
    only the 3" mag. a-5's use the 2 bronze pcs. set up
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