A fourteen year old boy down the road from me bought a slick 12ga 3" A5 Browning for like $300!!...A really clean nice-looking little used gun.

Wouldn't work worth a hoot though...and he was wanting to hunt some dove.

The kid being fatherless uses us nearby 'fathers' for such issues. Anyhow...another neighbor guy and the boy came over and we cleaned the gun up....had what appeared to be some sort of petrified cosmoline on the mainspring and magtube.

We cleaned and puzzled over the friction ring settings...and google was our friend...we found destructions online for how to install the friction-rings for 2 3/4" shell function.

We could not get the 3" Browning A5 to run light game loads...however it would run really good with stiffer 2 3/4" shells and this got the gun running with shells that didn't cost $30 a box!!

The kid now knows to watch his drams and ounces when buying shells...and where to find destructions to install his friction-rings and care for his super-nice shotgun!