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Need serial number to date any Browning firearm.
Your browning auto-5 standard 16gauge shotgun was made by FN of belguim for browning in 1953.
Your browning 16ga was produced by browning in belguim in 1949.
Your Browning sweet sixteen auto-5 shotgun was made in the year 1948.
You may not have a Browning shotgun;all browning 16 gauge shotguns were made in Belgium for browning from 1909-1976.afterword they were made by Mirouku of Japan from 1976 onward.You may have a shotgun that was made with a John M Browning patent,but made by another company.Please provide a more detailed description of your shotgun;and we might be able to identify what you have.
Your serial number indicates that your Browning auto-5 sweet sixteen model shotgun was made in Belgium by FN for Browning in the year 1961.
This is a Auto-5 shotgun made by Fabrique Nationale in Belgium. This is a 12 guage shotgun made in 1930. The barrel should be stamped Browning Arms Co. Ogden Utah and or a combination of Ogden and St. Louis Mo. It will not have any scroll engraving on the receiver unless it is a gradeII or better. The standard grade was not engraved in that year.
What Springfield Company are you referring too? Browning didn't have a Company in Springfield, but they did have their operations in St Louis Missouri. The Headquarters for the Browning Companies was in Ogden for many years, known as Browning Bros. and also the JM & MS Browning Co. In 1927 they created the Browning Arms Company in the United States to sell under that name the gun imports from Belgium. In 1931 Browning moved their Sales and distribution operations from Ogden to St. Louis Missouri and it remained there until 1964 when they moved to Morgan Utah. Browning guns are all from the same Company that imported, made and sold guns known as Browning's. Most all the Browning guns were made in Belgium and Japan, however some people have had confusion over the guns made in the USA, St. Louis Mo. These guns are the auto-5's that Remington made for Browning during WWII. They were actually made in New York by Remington, not in St Louis.
No they were never made in St.Louis Missouri.
This gun was made in 1959 in Herstal Belgium. In 1959, Browning opened a service center in Canada and started engraving their barrels a St. Louis and Montreal. This Barrel marking remained from 1959 to 1969. Browning Shotguns were never made in Canada.
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