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It boggles the mind.

My 1963 model Sweet Sixteen with 28" VR weighs 7 pounds on the nose.

Shockingly, it's 1/4 pound heavier than that recommended by The Authorities using the ever famous 'rule of 96' for 1 1/8 ounce loads.

A brief session with a recoil calculator shows that the Fiocchi 'Golden Pheasant' in my S16 develops THE SAME free recoil energy as an 8.5 pound 12 gauge with the ever popular and traditional American pheasant load of 3 3/4 Deq. 1 1/4 ounce that we've been using forever.

The same free recoil.

Can you feel it? If you're not dead, yes you can.

Is it excessive? When the pheasant falls and you're watching a nice canine retrieve, you never notice recoil.

I usually just reverse the brass friction ring and put the convex on top.

I usually just reverse the brass friction ring and put the convex on top,which works well with lower recoiling ammo

I have some work to do. Thanks again
Linn

If you are going to run really light 2 1/2" loads in the A5, you may be better off with the old spring installed. I assume it was the big spring under the front wood you replaced, and not the action spring in the stock.
If you didn't do it already, pull the stock off and remove the action spring, and clean it and the hole it runs in-compressed air works well. Lightly lube, and reassemble.
An A5 will often need some tinkering to work well with lighter loads. The design does allow for some adjustability to make this happen, but, in my experience, most people won't do the work to get them running smoothly.
Then, you have to remember to switch everything around to run regular, or, heavy loads. I've met many people that own A5s that have no clue where the shock absorber is set.


Best,
Ted

The new Sweetie, even though it's a pound lighter than the Belgian original, isn't bad in the recoil dept. with factory 1 oz loads either.

And suddenly a square back Browning is cool again.

They use 'hump back' in their ads, a term originally intended to be less than flattering. I've been looking for the mythical 'hump' for a long time.

Is it really 6 lbs?

You do know adding weight to an inertia gun makes it a single shot, so a buyer needs to really want that light of a gun.

Yes, the new ones really are 6 pounds. Or a little less. I put the field test gun Browning sent me (28" barrel) on a postal scale.

My (new model) A5 SW16 with 28" barrel weighs 5 lbs. 12 oz. on my postal scale. It has very mild recoil with 1 oz. loads. (defies logic)

I didn't like the factory pistol grip so I changed it.

The 12ga action is designed to handle 3.5" shell while 16ga is not and has smaller dimensions giving that gauge better handling characteristics in that model gun. They did to very good job with that Sweet Sixteen. I didn't know they made some with straight grip.