Older A5 using slugs?

[ExAgoradzo]

Can I use slugs in an older but otherwise good condition A5? Will the choke size matter?

Kinda want to honor my FiL using his gun to bring home Bambi.

Thanks
Greg

 

[JeffG]

There is older, and there is older. In the 60's and 70's I used my grandfathers A5 with Foster slugs for deer with good results. Pretty sure it had a full choke.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Spare Auto5 (not A5- that is a totally different gun) barrels aren't rare on Ebay, though they are a bit pricey. Im considering buying one for mine and cutting it down to remove the choke restriction , as well as make it handier for HD use.

I know many people shoot slugs from full-choke bores without the gun blowing up, but I don't feel comfortable doing it. Most, if not all, choked Auto 5 barrels aren't safe for steel birdshot either.

Also make sure to rearrange your friction rings before shooting slugs from an Auto5.

 

[Roverguy]

Using Foster style slugs, you’ll be fine with any choke more open than Full. You may well be fine with a Full choke, but I would pass.

 

[Armored farmer]

The only shotgun barrel that I ever saw split down the barrel 16" was a full choke Browning Auto 5 16ga..
Grandson had been shooting foster slugs through it.

 

[mcb]

My father bought a second barrel for his A5 that took choke tubes. He killed his first deer with that setup when we lived in Ohio a slug only state at the time