Auto-5 serial number question
Having trouble with this one. The 5Z is throwing me off since the Browning records don't match this format. I would have to guess 1903-1939 but Browning makes no reference to a 5Z format in any year.
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Could it be a war time Browning? There were a few years during WW2 that the Nazis were in Belgium and Remington produced the A-5s.
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Look like a 2, just doing my best to confuse things further.
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There is a 5Z for a Light Weight 20 for the year 1965……..A5 shotgun
Your serial number of 99991 in 12 ga. would have it made in 1927……but shows no prefix for the 5Z.
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thorhammer: 32606248445979/comments/32606217297179
There is a 5Z for a Light Weight 20 for the year 1965……..A5 shotgun
Your serial number of 99991 in 12 ga. would have it made in 1927……but shows no prefix for the 5Z.
Would be nice for Browning to expand on this. I now get the "5" is for 1965 but Browning says nothing about the "Z". Thank you for your help.
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According to google…..
A Browning A5 with a serial number ending in "5Z" indicates that the gun was manufactured in 1995; the "Z" in the serial number corresponds to the year "5" according to Browning's standardized serial number system where each letter represents a year digit, with "Z" being "1" and "Y" being "2" and so on.
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Locust Fork: 32606248445979/comments/32606277060251
According to google…..
A Browning A5 with a serial number ending in "5Z" indicates that the gun was manufactured in 1995; the "Z" in the serial number corresponds to the year "5" according to Browning's standardized serial number system where each letter represents a year digit, with "Z" being "1" and "Y" being "2" and so on.
Kasey, I have two Auto-5 in the time frame with the serial number use but each has a double letter, not a single letter such as the 5Z. 1976-1997 used this format such as 01001RT151. The serial on the picture is for a 20 ga., round knob pistol grip and it is Belgian.
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The Browning pictured is a 1965 lightweight 20. Z designation is LW and the 5 is the yr. Browning quit building round knobs 1966-67. I have an OZ LW A5 vent rib . Both are Belgium Guns
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I just saw where it said "ending" in the thing I copied…..
I really dislike Browning for their convoluted serial number dating system.
The fact that Remington calls everything they make a "700" with no hint what actual model it might be….and figuring out what year a Browning are made are both right up there at the top of things that frustrate me.
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