Browning A5 age

[GY67]

Alright guys either my ADHD is kicking in strong tonight or I am just not smart enough to figure out the online guide to verifying the age of my A5's.

I have two currently, one that I bought after shooting my father in-laws and then my father in-laws gun that he passed down to my son a year or so ago. Can anyone smarter then me tell me the age of these guns?

Mine goes as follows:
71G
560XX

My sons goes as follows:
644XX

Thanks for your help everyone

 

[rcmodel]

71G is a lite-12 made in 1971.

644xx was made in 1928.

rc

 

[krimmie]

I may be wrong, but I think your sons gun was manufactured pre war(WWII) , yours is a light weight model made in 1971.

 

[krimmie]

Oops, rc beat me to it.

 

[GY67]

Alright so that's cool. Mine was made the year I was born so that makes it pretty special to me. As for my father in-laws is there anything special about it compared to mine? Should I treat it any different? Meaning, shoot different shells through it then I do mine? The only difference I've notices so far other then then the color of the furniture is his will shoot any 12 gauge shell you load in it while mine only seems to like what I call brass high collar shells. If I load in low collar brass or low collar aluminum shells it won't cycle them.

Also, my sons is a light 12 as well according to the stamping on the side. Not sure if they made anything any different when his was made.

 

[rcmodel]

Your gun will cycle anything reliably.

But you have to adjust the friction rings on the mag tube on all A5's depending on the power of the shells you are using.

Here is the A5 Owners Manual which tells you how to adjust them on page 9.

http://media.browning.com/pdf/om/auto5_light_om_s.pdf

It is really hard on the gun to shoot heavy loads with the friction rings set for light loads.

And it sounds like your old gun is set for light loads and your newer gun is set for heavy loads.

Rc