I have a miroku a5, that I dropped off to a smith to have field stripped and cleaned.

I got it back with the unusable, with the brass recoil piece in a bag.

If anyone wants to diagnose it and return it to me ready to go I’ll send it to you tomorrow.

I hate auto loader shotguns, but inherited five a5 shotguns, and this has beautiful would and I would like to use it.

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We used nothing but FN made A5s for so many years.

Only problems we had was firing pin breakage.

Otherwise they worked and worked and worked.

The A5 type of shotguns must be heavy grease on the recoil springs and bushings. The amount of recoil needs to be a new set of bushings and then look for other problems if it is not reloading properly. I was working as a full time gunsmith back in the early 1963 before the Rem 1100 auto's came out. A Rem 1100 was a parts exchange type action and most could be fixed in 15 minutes, but the A5 required several special tools. Our shop had all the tools to rebuilt the old Rem 11's and A5's which requires
fitted almost all new parts. Breach bolts and barrel extensions required reamers and headspace
gages. Some of the older A5's that were in use for 50 or more years kept running if you had it greased, but the gas operated shotgun should be shot with light oil in the actions and dry on the recoil tubes and sometimes the gas rings needed to be replaced.

Enough time of shotguns so look for an
older gunsmith to work on the A5's and don't rework the old Rem 11 copies of the A5's.

Les Brooks, retired gunsmith

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Originally posted by Colin Masters:
I have a miroku a5, that I dropped off to a smith to have field stripped and cleaned.

I got it back with the unusable, with the brass recoil piece in a bag.

If anyone wants to diagnose it and return it to me ready to go I’ll send it to you tomorrow.

I hate auto loader shotguns, but inherited five a5 shotguns, and this has beautiful would and I would like to use it.

Art's Gun Shop in Hillsborough MO is a go-to shop for Browning Auto repairs. They can fix it.

Are you talking about the brass friction piece? If so, maybe he didn't know how to set it correctly for low brass or high brass shells and thus put it in a bag for you to do. I have both Belgium and Japanese auto fives and they all have the brass friction piece, along with the smaller steel friction ring and the friction spring that you use to set the shotgun up for high brass or low brass shells. The Browning auto five manual should show you how they are set for high or low brass shells, or you can get a print out that you can keep in a handy place to refer to it when changing it over from one to the other-if that's the issue.

quote:

Originally posted by Colin Masters:
I have a miroku a5, that I dropped off to a smith to have field stripped and cleaned.

I got it back with the unusable, with the brass recoil piece in a bag.

If anyone wants to diagnose it and return it to me ready to go I’ll send it to you tomorrow.

I hate auto loader shotguns, but inherited five a5 shotguns, and this has beautiful would and I would like to use it.

Did you use a smith or a butcher? The friction ring set up on an A5 is simple. The average person just looking at it can figure out how the two components of the friction brake works. The steel friction ring goes flat side to the top of the spring for heavy loads and concave side to the top of the spring for light loads. The bronze friction brake slides onto the magazine tube next then the barrel, forend and cap. Simple.


I'd be concerned that there could be other parts of the A5 not assembled correctly if the smith stripped it for cleaning and returned it like that.

https://www.browning.com/suppo...aq/rings-auto-5.html

Check the attached Browning instructions for your gun's setup. If you have a Magnum A5, your 'smith may have removed a set of rings so you could shoot 2 3/4" shells and put the extra set in the bag. Or, he installed new ring(s) and put the old one in the bag. We do that at our shop to show the customer we did the work.

Why don't you ask him about it?

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