Those two shotguns became so successful, they virtually owned the autoloading shotgun market during the entire first half of the 20th century. More than , Model 11 shotguns had been built by , the year Remington dropped it from production. When production of the Browning Auto-5 ceased in , almost three million had been produced by its Belgium and Japanese makers. The old hump-backed Browning is an excellent shotgun and many are still in use today, but like most machines, it is far from perfect.
Its biggest shortcoming is the inability to handle a variety of loads without mechanical adjustment on the part of the shooter. Switching from light to heavy loads and vice versa requires removal of the forearm and changing the position of a brass friction ring on the magazine tube. The first successful gas-operated shotgun was introduced, not by Browning, Winchester or Remington as one might logically expect, but by the mail-order firm of Sears Roebuck.
Marketed under the highly successful J. Higgins brand name, it was introduced in and called the Model An older kid who lived just up the road from our little farm owned the first one I ever saw and while it seemed to work fine, its bulky gas-handling system required an extremely fat forearm and that made the gun ungainly and poorly balanced.
The author of the first test report I read on the gun described it as being slightly pregnant. Remington introduced its first gas gun, the Sportsman, only a few months after the J. Rather, its magazine cap had to be twisted to the "H" position when heavy loads were used and then set on the "L" position for light loads.
While that procedure was quicker and more convenient than changing the friction ring on the Browning Auto-5, it still fell short of perfection in autoloader design. The next step toward ideal took place for Remington in with the introduction of the Model Automaster. In , Remington introduced the Model and it went on to become the best-selling autoloader of all time.
The Browning Auto-5 and Remington Model 11 may have ruled the roost during the first half of the 20th century, but the second half absolutely belonged to the Model By over three million had been manufactured and the total number is surely climbing toward five million as I write this.
The Model is the only semiautomatic shotgun to be built in all five of the popular chambers: 28, 20, 16 and 12 gauges and. At that price, you might think it to be a clunker, but it was a smooth running 3.
European America Armory originally imported it. One of the unique things about the Baikal was it came with this wrench you had to use in order to adjust the gas system to cycle light or heavy loads. And most hunters probably would ask the same question I did. Why two shots? I had the chance to shoot it on a chukar hunt once, and it lived up to its billing as one of the most accurate light around 5.
It was a perfect little gun to carry all day long in the uplands or a waterfowl walk-in unit. The first Weatherby I ever shot was the inertia-driven Element in gauge, and I was not impressed. I tried endlessly to break it in with turkey loads, but it never cycled waterfowl shells or target loads worth a darn.
But the gas-operated SA is the exact opposite. They definitely had the all-day hunter in mind when this autoloader was built. Weatherby kept the weight down with an aluminum receiver and if you pick the inch barrel option, that will shave a few more ounces off. Known for its accurate and affordable rifles Weatherby crossed that over into the SA Up Next.
Athlon Outdoors Network. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Nor do many shooters like the "double shuffle" recoil of the A-5, which actually increases the felt recoil. This operating system dominates centerfire autoloading handguns and was the system used by the famous Maxim machine gun, but it has never sold well when applied to shotguns.
None of them were commercially successful. There are no short-recoil shotguns of any consequence in production. Although I have a soft spot for the Browning Double Auto, it is not mainstream and has not been produced for many years. The most popular autoloading shotgun in history, the Remington Model , was introduced in and is still in production.
The Remington still has a strong following, but its action does not compensate as well for load intensity as some other actions and the is the last mainstream autoloader to have a machined steel receiver.
Aluminum alloy receivers can be made faster and cheaper. There are more advanced gas autoloaders out there, at least the way some choose to look at it. The modern gas action significantly reduces felt recoil and that alone makes gas action autoloaders the preferred choice for high volume shooting.
Some claim recoil doesn't matter, but with all the miracle recoil pads, springy stock things, and managed-recoil shotshells out there, to many people how soft a shotgun shoots remains very important.
How often to clean a shotgun means, to some people, when it stops working and not before. Most are easy to clean, though, and it often takes longer to describe it than to actually do it.
Gas actions handle the widest variety of loads and, for a given weight of gun, have the softest recoil.
The modern inertia action was invented by Bruno Civolani and is synonymous with the Benelli brand in many circles. It is the longest recoil action possible, in a sense, as the entire gun recoils and only part of the split bolt remains stationary.
The floating part of the bolt compresses a spring and that's how the gun works. Functionally, they are simple. Inertia guns are high recoil compared to gas guns, but as there is no gas system to clean and they need scant little maintenance. They function dirty or wet and the only thing that tends to stop them is running them dry.
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