Just a GREAT video, THANKS! My dad had a beautiful Sweet Sixteen that was stolen in a home burglary, as well as many other guns. We got some back but not the most valuable ones like my Winchester Model 12. Somewhere around the time I was 15 yrs or a little younger (I'm 70) I wanted to give him back his shotgun but 16 ga. guns were not to be found. At Christmas time I settled on a Belgium Light 12 with a Skeet choke, nice speckled wood, but couldn't afford it by myself and ask my mom if we could go halves on it. She agreed, probably checking with dad which gave my gift surprise away. Anyway, I now own that beautiful gun, it is a "Safe Queen", though it would be great on the skeet range I bet. I wish I could have found a Sweet Sixteen, that would have been much much better, but I did what I could at that age. I still love 16s but don't own any.....: ) Loved your video!
I inherited my Dad's 2 Browning 16's. 1 is a sweet 16 and the other is standard. He loved the Sweet 16. He bought it in 1949. He killed lots and lots of ducks and quail with it. As a matter of fact, I sleep on a feather bed that my Mother made with the down from those ducks.
Thank you for your videos. I bought my first Browning Citori in the mid 80's. Can you do a video comparing the changes from the Superposed to the Citori to the modern 725. When I was looking for a new shotgun (my Citori still works like new) a lot of people tried to convince me to switch to a Barrerta. I tried to convince myself too but I ended up with another Browning. Keep making the videos.
My dad beat gun safety into my head when I was allowed to carry a firearm. My dad was strict on always having the safety on untill raising the gun for the shot on whatever we where hunting. If rabbit hunting the safety only came off after the rabbit was spotted running away. So I liked the safety in front of the trigger guard. I would hunt with my pointer finger protecting the trigger guard and resting on the safety. When the gun came up, the safety was pushed off and my finger slid back to the trigger for a well controlled well placed and safe shot. My dad owns 10 of these A5 browning all all gauges. I don't see a problem with the front safety if the user has been tought to control his gun. Ive gotta say one other thing to. I love the A5 browning but some of these guns for whatever reason hold the worst buckshot patterns of any shotgun ive ever seen. I shot a deer walking sideways to me at 25 yards with 3" double 00 buckshot. 3 rounds and put 1 pellet in the deeds body. I told my dad after the second deer I shot running with 3" #4 buckshot. 4 rounds 42 pellets a round and only put 5 total pellets in that deer the gun was a disaster with buckshot. He claimed it was me and not the gun. So we put a 5 gallon bucket out at 30 yards with double 00 buckshot and after the 4th round we managed to touch the bucket lol. I love these guns but like everything there are some bad with the good.
I just watched this video and have a couple of questions I can’t find the answer to online. I recently acquired a Remington made browning 16ga. Serial number begins with an A... first question is this gun worth anything extra or less being that it is made by Remington for browning? Second question, I have several 12 ga auto 5’s and they all have friction rings with a flat side, this one does not. There is a convex and concave side... I’m assuming the convex side is the “flat side” and should be setup as such. Thanks you for any insight into these two things
Nothing rare or too special about an Remington 11. Plenty out there. Any straight up Browning, will be worth more than the Remington or Savage versions. There are plenty of diagrams you can view online of the friction ring set up. You’ll have a setup for heavy and light loads.
I have a 1947 I want to send you to repair and possibly restore. It has no Sweet 16 logo because of 1947 they didn’t mark them yet from what I know. It has a lightened barrel. Holes in the ring. It has reduced weight stock. It doesn’t not have the milled cut outs inside the receiver. You think I might have a “ghost 16”????? Cause I sure think so. It’s definitely a historically rare pice either way. It’s the missing link. 😊
@Sebastian Hahn actually did some research on these a while back, there were a few years where the Belgium made guns didn't have gold triggers. I know its never been apart, and it hasn't been used enough for the plate to wear off.
I just purchased a 1940 Remington Model 11 12 gauge with a 28 inch barrel with the suicide safety all within the trigger guard. Serial numbers match on receiver and barrel, 270232. (left side-WJ3 AC* FULL/right side-(REP) * R3) It's a standard no frills A grade in rough shape. Missing the magazine retaining screw and 3 locking screws. Has a broken recoil spring, and the forearm stock looks like a tank ran it over. About half way up the 28 inch barrel, there's an even bulge around the barrel and it's got a noticeable ring on the inside. It looks to uniform to be catastrophic failure. Manufactures defect? Barrel repair? If there's such a demon. Either way, I do not trust it...even cut at 18 1/2". So I need a barrel, rebuild kit, and a stock. To keep costs down I'm probably going to use a synthetic stock, this isn't going to be an award winner, just need it functional and reliable.