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Sorry guys being OT. I have been unable to find this info out anywhere. What is the year of MFG. for an early Browning A5 with a serial number of 3494 Twenty Gauge with magazine cut off? Thanks Jerry
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Mike: Mine is marked BROWNING ARMS CO. ST. LOUIS MO. on barrel. The buttplate is marked BROWNING AUTOMATIC with FN in the center. Mine is identical to yours except my number is 3494 and 8Z above. Thanks Jerry
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OK, so it is not a super early gun plus being a 20 gauge, you should be able to use the below list to find the letter code and the number and get a year of manuf. You should have an X to specify 20 gauge?????? But a Z specifys Light 20 http://proofhouse.com/browning/a5.htmMike
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Skeettex, this fellow's gun is a 20 gauge, a whole different situation. The Browning website or the links at the shotgunworld.com forum about Browning serial numbers will tell all, or maybe not. Unfortunately, Browning knows less about their serial numbers than some collectors. Your 20 gauge doesn't fit into any chart published by Browning, and no Browning A-5 20 gauge can be described as an "early A-5". To edit, I was posting this while Jerry was posting his complete serial number. The complete number with prefix does fit into the Browning chart.
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Yes, yes, trying to be nice and ease this along.
Patience
Mike
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Ok, so now you see
8Z3494
and the first Browning chart says
1958-67 From 1958 serial numbers were preceded by the date of manufacture. 8M=standard weight for 1958. 8G=light weight for 1958.
Example: 8M1000 = A 1958 Auto-5 standard weight shotgun with serial number 1000 G85001-G99000
8G1-8G2000
M=standard weight
G=light weight
And the second chart says the Z stand for Light 20
So your A-5 is a Light 20 made in 1958 and has the serial number 3494.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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Mike: That's what I got from the chart as well, but I feel better you have confirmed the reading of this. BTW I got the gun gratis! My father in law who passed away last Friday and was a notorious gun hater, had it tucked back in his closet. The gun had belonged to my mother in law's sister [now deceased] a notorious quail hunter! Many Thanks Jerry
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Jerry/Alvin you are most welcome NOW please tell me more about the Alvin Linden name. Surely you do not make stocks and checker them  Mike
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My dad got to know Alvin in the Mid to Late 30's, along with Emil Kollochek when he transported his [Dad's] English Pointers to Wisconsin and Michigan, for Field Trials. They went near Bryant his hometown and Dad had read about him in Outdoor Life, in an article by Townie Whelen. He wanted him to restock a high grade A.H. Fox, he took in trade. Alvin recommended someone else for the job, a few miles away in Stevens Point WI. My Dad had his first gun built by him in 1937, an N.R.A. SPORTER with custom stock, G&H SIDE MOUNT and ZEISS ZIELKLEIN 2.25X SCOPE. It had his trademark crosshatch or "AUTOMOBILE FRONT GRILL PATTERN" CHECKERING at the grip. Sadly he made only a few more for him, when WWII called my Dad back into active service. They had planned a Custom Mod. 70 Short Rifle and a M-22 Project but ALVIN died in July 1945 or 6, so it wasn't to be. The way I got the nickname was, my DAD named a beautful male Lemon Pointer whose blood would end up in the famous Alabama ELHEW LINE of pointers, "Alvin Linden" in honor of him and when I was a boy, I became very fond of the dog. So that, when my brothers shot a quail and we were in the stage of only WORKING/TRAINING a single dog at a time, my brothers called me their... ALVIN LINDEN AND TOLD ME TO GO AND GET THEIR BIRD! which I did! Karma is Hell though, when either of them ask to borrow a gun, I always tell them...ALVIN LINDEN [the pointer] IS USING IT!!! Jerry
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