Now you can date your Browning firearm. The serial number found on your gun has the answer. This area will help you read that serial number.
To find your serial number, you will need to refer to your owner's manual. We have most owner's manuals online.
While every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided on serial numbers and dates of manufacture are accurate, records on early production models such as the Auto-5 and Superposed shotguns were not included due to the complexity of numbers, models and grades offered. Also, there have been unique limited edition models that did not follow our regular serial number configurations and they are not included in this listing.
Belgium Browning A5 Serial Number Lookup
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I have a 1969 Browning A5 20 gauge, The serial number starts 69Z-XXXXX. The 'Z' is the question, The browning site shows that a 'G' or 'M' should follow the mfg. Date indicating a Lightweight or Standard model. This is Serial Number 002, with a Serial Number 001 still with Browning and actually unfinished, marked as a Prototype. If you have the Browning Auto-5 Shotguns, The Belgian FN Production book that just came out in a second, revised edition, you will see on page 184 Serial Number 001 Prototype, with a full explanation of this special edition with high grade wood in satin finish and ornately carved and checkered. John Browning himself called it his greatest achievement at the time, of course that was before the 1911.45 caliber semiautomatic handgun. If you own one of these guns and it has a letter in the serial number, the letter is a code that represents; G = Lightweight, M = Standard Weight, V = 12 Gauge Magnum, S = Sweet Sixteen and X = 20 Gauge.
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Browning A5 Serial Number Lookup
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