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10-02-2017, 03:49 PM
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More 16Ga--FN Browning "Sweet 16"
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10-02-2017, 04:26 PM
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Neat gun, and neat story...thanks for sharing both!
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10-02-2017, 04:46 PM
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What a beautiful Browning Shotgun.....& I love the family history on it you shared.
I've never owned an A-5, but if I ever do, it would be a "Sweet 16" with IC or MOD barrel.
Thanks for sharing the pics and story behind it.
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Beautiful gun! What a great history behind it too. I actually have written down info on how I acquired every gun I own. Every few years I go back and refresh my memory. I love the A-5's in particular the Sweet Sixteen. In the early part of the 2000's I went on a search for one. Finally put a want ad in the Raleigh News and Observer and got several interesting responses and saw some neat guns. I bought one in super condition from a guy that was selling his too make repairs on his Rolex. Bought it for $900. It is too nice to hunt with so put another ad in the paper looking for one I wouldn't mind to scratch up. This time a guy called me and said he had one and I could check it out at his beauty shop in an old money part of Raleigh. He had decided to get into deer hunting and didn't need the Sweet Sixteen anymore so he was selling it to buy a rifle. I carried my deer rifle with me to see if he wanted to trade but realized this was the last gun my father had bought me when I was a teenager. Ended up buying it for $600. This was Pre-Marriage years when I had more money to blow than I do now! I bought a spare barrel off Gun Broker and sent it off to Briley and had it shortened to 26" and had choke tubes installed. Pretty fun quail gun.
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Forgot to mention they have to have the round knob or they aren't near as pretty!
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