Browning engineers drew on the company’s experience with the rotary bolt design of the BAR center-fire rifle as they designed the A5. For instance, the bolt features four locking lugs as seen on ...

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 ...

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 ...