To fully understand today’s A5, let’s look back to the year 1899, four years before the first Browning Auto-5 shipped. Like many of today’s guns, this story begins at the workbench of John ...

The first Auto-5 was shipped to Browning on September 17, 1903. It was a design that would eventually come to be known as the Auto-5, A-5, Browning Automatic, “Humpback,” “Wild Mule,” or ...

I was among the first writers to hunt with the new-at-the time Browning A5 when the company reintroduced that classic “humpback” design in 2012. As a small platoon of other media members and I tromped ...