I have several Browning automatic shotguns, but my favorite is an old blond stock, round pistol grip, Belgian auto-5, sixty year old clunker that I use for duck hunting and when I am blocking on pheasant drives. It is heavy to lug while walking and I try to carry something lighter if I can get to the vehicle where I stashed it. Having multiple guns on a pheasant hunt is a headache, however.

There is nothing like hearing a heavy Browning clang into battery and be ready for the next round.

about your a-5 i know with mine, that it is very picky that i remember to flip the collet under the fore grip, for light loads, i know that i shoot hich brass most of the time, but when i shot skeet at the scout camp i work at, i was shooting low brass, and having the same problem, when i got home i asked my father, who bought the gun used as a sweet sixteen present, who own as well as collects them, and that is the first thing he told me to do, my sweet sixteen gold trigger doen;t have the diagram, it wore off, from age and use i assume, but it helps to have 5 or six other to use as reference i guess. other than that, i know my girlfriends dad is partial to both ruger and remington as his primarey shotguns, he has triplets, in 1100's on in 12, 16, and of course 20.  i think he brags, becuase he doesn't have to flip a collet before changing loads. oh and one other thing, your selective fire switch may be flippd the wrong way, but it should still cycle the chamber into the open locked position, if you clean you gun be sure that you don't over tighten the nut that screws down on your forend, it puches the barrel into the reciever, i usually like to keep that flush and then set it back about a half turn. other thank that, you might need to take it to your local gun smith.

My 1984 Auto 5 12gauge 28" barrel 2 3/4 light loads
is not ejecting the spent shells???
I've tried game loads using 3 1/4 gram but still no luck?

Any ideas ????

Great auto my favorite of the Browning offerings and it is a shame they are no longer making it or the superposed.

What can I say? A hundred-year-old design that never seems to fail. I own a dozen of these guns, both Belgians and Japs, and can't remember ever having one hiccup. A true timeless classic! I was really say to see Browning discontinue the production. If you're interested in buying a used Auto 5, don't wait too long. The rate at which these things are increasing in value doesn't seem to be slowing down any. Buy one while a working man can still afford one.