Great shotgun-- for reasons I never grasped, WRA never seemed to grab the auto-loading shotgun market, as they did the pump shotgun market- back "in the day".. I liked the receiver shape, and with a ventilated rib on the barrel, the M50 was a smooth pointing and easy to swing on crossing birds--It took me a while to get used to the "squared-back" of the receiver on my A-5 "lightweight 12" --lightweight at 8 lbs. I'm guessing the M50 went at about 7&1/2 lbs.

But- as I prefer the weight-forward, slightly muzzle heavy balance of the M12-- the M50 with the mechanism in the buttstock, didn't quite have that feel- as does the Browning A-5.

A hunting pal had a M50 in 20 gauge, and he shot a fair amount of grouse with it- It was a 28" mod. plain barrel gun, he cut the barrel down to 25" for grouse hunting (this was before choke tubes)-- and swore by it for grouse and quail--

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..