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Browning A5 12 Gauge Fire Gun - Semi Auto Shotguns at GunBroker.com : 925152401
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Strange that the wood doesn't appear to be burnt like I would expect it to be if it got hot enough to bend the barrel. Bob
Looks like maybe they dropped the fire safe on the barrel. Doesn't look burnt enough to melt the barrel that way.
One of Elmer Fudd's shotguns ?
About 5 minutes with a side grinder with a cutting wheel and you got yourself a real ghetto blaster.
Years ago I ran over a Remington 1100 with a John Deere tractor that came out looking a lot like that.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Looking for a cheap auto 12 to make a riot gun out of . 11/87, 1100, A5. That barrel would be too short where it starts to bend.
Had a customer bring in a 1938 Winchester 94 that was burned up in a chevy truck fire. Burned the wood completely off and the heat cooked off four 30-30 rounds in the magazine. The barrel was bent about 1/2" in the middle and the magazine was split wide open. The round closest to the loading gate blew backwards into the gate and partially out of the receiver. There was nothing salvageable on the whole rifle.
IF, and that's a big IF, everything else works, then you can get a replacement barrel. That's assuming lube will make it function and that you can get it cheap enough.
Still seems unlikely to me that heat caused that without blistering and burning all the wood off.
And why didn't the rubber kick pad melt before the barrel? Dunno, seems strange to me. But if it wasn't in a fire, then I don't see an upside to state that it was in a fire. Just seems strange to me.
all I see is another old fellow looking for / needing Viagra
I don't see it being in a fire. Maybe prying a fire door open.
Had a Uncle that did about same. Ran over his Browning automatic shotgun in soft mud cow lot with his tractor. Only shotgun he had. He said he had to backtrack the tractor he was using to feed the cows to find the gun.
We liked to quail hunt and he had a good quail dog. He finished the quail season with the bent barrel gun. Barrel had a slow sweeping bend to the left. I was 16 years old and a good wing shot on quail and so was he but he got handicapped and I got more quail than him.. He had a rough time hitting straight away and those going to the right.
If they went to the left he said he had to aim behind them.
He said he had to take a water hose and hose out the cow manure when he first found the gun. Quite a Uncle but a good teacher for a grasshopper hunting friend.
I do remember me and my brother removed the barrel and filled it with sand to keep it from crimping, worked on it by applying pressure to the bend a bit and it turned out pretty decent......it was a user for the guest hunters who never knew 😜.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Wave the black flag on the purchase.