Need Help To ID 2 Browning Citori Shotguns 12ga & 28ga

[OldYooper]

See the 2 pictures.
I know the 12ga is a 1979. I do not know what the 5B3 means.

I know the 28ga is a 1980. I do not know what the 5E3 Means.

Thank Your Help. OldYooper.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My Browning reference is older and doesn't list them that way. My thinking is the B & the E are for the gauge and the ending 3 or the 5 stands for the grade.

Whole pictures and the area in front of the trigger guard often say what you have on Clitoris. I have 7 of them and which model is as important as the grade! Barrel Length and Stick/Fore End style, quality of wood all play into equation.

Ivan

 

[bummer]

My Browning reference is older and doesn't list them that way. My thinking is the B & the E are for the gauge and the ending 3 or the 5 stands for the grade.

Whole pictures and the area in front of the trigger guard often say what you have on Clitoris. I have 7 of them and which model is as important as the grade! Barrel Length and Stick/Fore End style, quality of wood all play into equation.

Ivan

You might want to proof read your response

 

[LVSteve]

You might want to proof read your response

Doncha hate autocorrect some days.

 

[DWalt]

Well, some guys really love their shotguns.

See Citori Over/Under Shotgun - Browning

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

My Browning reference is older and doesn't list them that way. My thinking is the B & the E are for the gauge and the ending 3 or the 5 stands for the grade.

Whole pictures and the area in front of the trigger guard often say what you have on Clitoris. I have 7 of them and which model is as important as the grade! Barrel Length and Stick/Fore End style, quality of wood all play into equation.

Ivan

Alrighty then.......

 

[H Richard]

Stick, stock, we know what you meant. All I can add is Browning makes great shotguns. I only have 3, Bt99+, Citori Special Sporting Clay's, and Citori Lightening 20 Ga. Covers all my current needs, but really like the Grade 5's.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Of the 7 I have 5 are one form of Sporting Clays gun or another. 2 are Superlight, and one of those is a Grade VI. Broke down by gauges one 12, two 20's, two 28's, and two 410's. All except the Superlight use choke tubes, but I almost always use Skeet/IC.

I have two Superpose also, A 30" 12 F/F and a 28" 20 F/IC, both Lightnings.

When I started out, I owned Citori, Ruger Red Lable, and Berretta 686. They all have unique swing characteristics, and I scored best with the Browning O/U's. In automatics I prefer Berretta.

Ivan