August 4, 2014, 01:59 PM | #1 |
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Another Browning copy
Well, we can add another to the list of Browning A5 copies.
It appears that some time between the wars, Rheinmetall made a dead-nuts copy of the A5. Stumbled across this one on GB while searching for something else. It's a beauty, too, in 16 ga. So now, we have: FN A5 (Europe) Browning A5 (US) Remington 11 Savage Stevens Western Field (Savage/Stevens) Daiwa (Japan) Rheinmetall Nr. 4 (Germany)
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The Rheinmetall shotgun looks like an A5, but is actually quite different.
And you can add Franchi to your list of copies.
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Rheinmetall was a wonderful company. They designed an engineered everything very well. Also, they built this.
Completely unrelated but it was the first and one of the only Germany tank destroyers that had a fully rotational turret. Used a 128mm cannon. I wouldn't knock Rhm. Too much, had they actually copied it, they might even have built it better.
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Boy! I'll say it looks like an A5. Have you handled one? Are there major internal differences?
Here's the link for the GB auction in case you want to look at the pix: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=432868188 I knew that Rheinmetall made the Dreyse pistols as well as a more modern .32 auto in the 20s (I have one), but never knew they made a shotgun like this.
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Is that cannon 88mm and not 188?
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Actually it was a 128 mm cannon, my mistake, there was an attempt to mount a 15 cm cannon, but it failed. The 15 cm cannon was also experimented with on the E-100 and the 128mm cannon was used on the PanzerKampfWagen VIII Maus, the heaviest and most well armored tank ever invented.
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The Rheinmetall No. 4 is quite different inside. There is some good info on it on Gunboards Shotgun Forum
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Externally looks the same. Internally nothing alike. Totally different animal. I don't even thin the barrel recoils. I knew a man who had one. I never could come up with enough cash to buy it.
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Wow! I went to Gunboards and looked at the patent drawings. One gent had a Rheinmetall which he took apart and documented with photos. You are right: It has absolutely nothing in common with an A5, other than a superficial external appearance.
The one for sale on Gunbroker is the first one I have ever seen or heard of.
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