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Interesting follow-on to this thread after my post of several days ago. Was "working" as a picker-upper with my dog yesterday at a local pheasant tower shoot. A man walked by with a high condition "A5. I complemented him on the gun and said "It's not a Browning, it's an Ithica 745". Never head of such a beast before Me neither- and he doesn't even know that his hybrid shotgun is an IthAca, NOT an IthIca, by the way- I stopped the tower shoots unless it is a private members only shoot and I know the guys-waaay too many dudes with closed actions going out to the stands, or moving between after the tower lads blow the horn-- and when you ask them to please leave the action open on their shotgun, they act offended. Murphy's Law just awaiting an riposte!!
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How about Savage 745?
The Browning auto design was licensed all over the world.
The Savage 520 has a similar receiver profile, as the pix shows.
I never understood the term 'humpback'.
The swept profiled repeaters should be called 'humpback', and the Browning profile a 'sharpback' or 'squareback'. Go figure.
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My Bad. Should have said "Savage 745.
Last edited by tudurgs; 12/08/14 08:53 PM.
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the savage 520 was a JMB design. the later 620 just a variation of it. no such thing as an Ithaca 745. shotgunjones is correct in that it was a savage, and was the successor to the 720.
the savage 720 was more nearly an exact copy of the A5 than the Remington model 11 was. I've had 720's and A5's apart at the same time and there are numerous parts I was able to interchange. Remington changed EVERYTHING at least a little.
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George,
as much as i'll stand behind how much sense the early safety makes and how fast and easy it is to use and how much I love Garands, I absolutely HATE it on an auto-5.
it's interesting that the back-of-trigger-guard location was used by both Remington and Savage, predating that location on the Browning by what, 30 and 10 years respectively at least?
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I haven't read all the pages and this may have been covered, but the Belgium guns are worth more than the others. A vent or solid rib adds value as well as being a light weight.
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Actually that's a Stevens 520 not a Savage 520. I've got a 522 (Trap Grade) with a straight stock (Hell of a piece of wood in it too) and a 32 inch solid rib barrel. I believe it's my favorite pump gun, even over a Winchester 97 or Model 12.
I've looked a 32 inch 20 gauge for years but only ever seen them listed in the catalogs. They shot 3 inch shells, though they were before the true "magnum" era. I'd even take a 30 inch if it had a rib, though they all seem to be 28 inch.
The Savage Auto5 Clone is a decent gun. You oddly don't see many of them, though they made quite a few. I've never owned one but a buddy in High School shot a lot of game with one he had that was marked Western Auto.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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Actually that's a Stevens 520 not a Savage 520.Destry Right Destry, but actually what it is is a Montgomery Ward model 30, says so right on the side. Of course its also a STEVENS model 520. But when I get around to having it engraved as a Browning Sweet 16 Pump, then what will it be?...Geo
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Is the Savage Auto-5 clone the one with the knurled barrel end and no handle on the action?...Geo
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Geo, I think that is a Winchester 1911 "widow maker"
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