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A5 pricing

bubbaman628bubbaman628 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have a A5 serial#A13840 it is probabley 90% or bettter.It is a field grade has very slight marks on top of reciever from slight surface rust.Can someone tell me what a good selling price is on this gun?Is it a St.Louis that is what it says on it?Thanks,Bubba
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    More info please. Ga.? barrel length ? Rib?? Etc. can you post a pic??
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  • bubbaman628bubbaman628 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am sorry 16 gauge,no rib but has a knurled line down top of barrel.I will try to get some pics. up.
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  • bubbaman628bubbaman628 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The barrel lenght is 27in. from end to reciever I think that would make it a thirty.
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  • vdms55vdms55 Member Posts: 298 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hi bubba, last summer i gave $300 for a 12 ga. 2 3/4" with vented rib, round pistol grip, and bone butt plate in about the same condition. the serial number made it to be a late 50's issue i'm thinking. oh, also the forearm was cracked,(inflamous marking for a-5's). so my w.a.g. depending on the buyer would be $200 to maybe $400 range. welcome to the forum
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  • bubbaman628bubbaman628 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks,I appreciate the help.
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  • 22hipower22hipower Member Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can you check the serial number? A Browning A5 16 gauge ('50s/'60s) should have an R or S as a prefix not an "A." Should be an "S" if a Sweet Sixteen or an "R" if a standard 16. Either way, a 90% 16 gauge even with a cracked forearm is worth in the $600+ range. The choke makes a difference in value on these too with IC and skeet being more desirable than full or mod. Pictures would help a lot.
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  • CapnMidnightCapnMidnight Member Posts: 8,038 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think if it were a sweet 16 it would have a vent rib, every one I've seen has had one, but that doesn't make it gospel. In my part of the country, a good nonvent nonsweet 16 is worth 4-5 hundred, a good sweet 16 is worth 1,200.00
    For what it's worth.
    W.D.
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    You can't buy a Remington or Savage A-5 clone for $300.00. Your A-5 will at least be worth twice what they are in similar condition.

    Should you have the Sweet Sixteen, then double it again.
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The serial number "A13840" tells us that it is one of the Remington made A5s (during WW II). Browning (FN) contracted with Remington to make them from 1940 - 1946 (due to the War). The Remington made A5s typically sell for about 50 - 60% of the identical Belgian made A5s.

    WACA Historian & Life Member

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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    Being that Remington is almost a home town company, I've never seen a Remington A-5 discounted to the level of a Savage or a M-11. Here they're considered fully a Browning with no more penalty (and likely less) than the Japanese A-5's.

    Oh... Wood quality will be a big factor. I'm basing my answer on guns equal in appearance to the Belgian offerings just before and immediately after Remington production.

    I suppose somewhat a regional thing. Bottom line is that A-5's are nice guns.
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