Browning Auto-5 Shotgun
Manufactured 1970 in Belgium. I have a buyer who claims that I removed the "Clear Coat" from this shotgun but I have never altered this gun in any way. This so-called "expert collector " claims to know everthing about this gun. Not being an "expert" my question is; did all of these guns have some sort of a finish that he is talking about?
If they did my gun was an exception.
If they did my gun was an exception.
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I purchased two new Browning Belgian-manufacture Auto 5's in 1969 and 1970; I still have one of them, a Light Twenty. I traded the Light Twelve a long time ago, and probably shouldn't have. The stocks of both were a high-gloss finish, but not a heavy clear coat at all, rather a well-rubbed oil-type finish. The appearance of the Light Twenty today is about the same as then. 0 -
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Brownings factory finish is toooo shiney anyway. 0 -
My father has a 1957 light twelve and his had a gloss finish as well. Every Browning Auto 5 from that era I have seen are equipped with a gloss finish on them.
Now the older Brownings, such as the 1930's vintage one my cousin owns with the suicide safety had a satin low gloss finish on the wood. it could be that an older stock set found its way onto the gun. These guns to bust wood, especially the forearms, and are often swapped out or replaced. Or, someone refinished or dulled it down at some time.
Now if you are the first owner, and hence know the entire history of the gun, my explanations do not work.0 -
I went back and checked your auction. I will tell you this much. All Browning A-5's had different wood than the next one in line. I went to a distributor's warehouse, and went thru 20 boxes with my dad as a young boy, and everyone had different wood than the next.
Yours was an A-5 Magnum, and I do believe on average they had a little duller finish than the rest, but none have I seen had a clear coat...not the Belgian made one's.
In your auction, you stated the pictures were not the best, and you would try to update them. He should have asked for more pictures, as most died in the wool collectors do...they want to see date codes, choke constriction markings, proof marks, and etc. He did not, so he must not be that grade of a collector who knows what he is looking for or doing. You also stated AS, no refunds. Even though the pictures could have been better, Ray Charles could have seen the wood was not going to burn out his eyes. The buyer does have a lot of good feedback, but the price he paid is extremely reasonable for what he got.
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Perhaps you should go to the administrators on the auction side and ask them for help. At the very worst you are in the same boat...at the best, you will get your bad rating retracted or admonished.
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quote:Originally posted by tsr1965
I went back and checked your auction. I will tell you this much. All Browning A-5's had different wood than the next one in line. I went to a distributor's warehouse, and went thru 20 boxes with my dad as a young boy, and everyone had different wood than the next.
Yours was an A-5 Magnum, and I do believe on average they had a little duller finish than the rest, but none have I seen had a clear coat...not the Belgian made one's.
In your auction, you stated the pictures were not the best, and you would try to update them. He should have asked for more pictures, as most died in the wool collectors do...they want to see date codes, choke constriction markings, proof marks, and etc. He did not, so he must not be that grade of a collector who knows what he is looking for or doing. You also stated AS, no refunds. Even though the pictures could have been better, Ray Charles could have seen the wood was not going to burn out his eyes. The buyer does have a lot of good feedback, but the price he paid is extremely reasonable for what he got.
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