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My recollection of A5s
Now, over fifty years ago I woke up the first time at our duck club. I proudly put my Stevens/Springfield breakopen .410 single shot on one of the open slots on the gun rack. There it sat among a couple of old Win 97s, a few Model 12s and well over a dozen (and more) A5s or Remington 11/Sportsmans. I have seen pictures of the previous generation at the club (1928) with more Model 97s but still a good number of A5s (11s).
They pretty much ruled the duck/goose game on the Mississippi River till the 11-48s, 58s and eventually 1100s started showing up.
Oh, me, I was a Remington 1100 guy from almost the start after a short few years of a .20ga Springfield 3" pump and a few years with a Winchester Model 50.
But, those guys in my Dad's generation were almost all A5 guys. They were great guns then and still are. Like the guy said, above, JMB was a genius.
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