Browning A-5 build date

doverbakes · December 4, 2011, 10:45 PM

I have a Browning A-5 trying figure out manufacture date.
Receiver reads 74V 29722. Help! Thanks!

jrothWA · December 5, 2011, 09:41 AM

the "V" indicates a Magnum reciever.

Go to the browning website, under the "parts / service" there is a "date your Browning, to confirm.

Recommend you get new friction bronzes, steel rings, and recoil; spring to insure good cyc;ing and reduced recoil.

Also you can download a manual for it from the website.

doverbakes · December 8, 2011, 06:38 PM

ok. It looked to me like from the web site the V meant 1975. I didn't read
anywhere that the V meant Magnum.

jrothWA · December 8, 2011, 08:52 PM

as I have some complied A5 information.

thedaddycat · December 8, 2011, 11:37 PM

From my reference book "Browning, Dates of Manufacture, 1824 to Present" First Edition, copyright 1988 (no ISBN).

74VXXXXX breaks down as follows:

Date code, first two digits indicate 1974 manufacture

V designates 12 ga. Magnum

XXXXX is the serial number

doverbakes · December 14, 2011, 05:22 PM

Thanks so much for all the info!

December 4, 2011, 10:45 PM	#1
doverbakes Junior Member Join Date: December 4, 2011 Posts: 3	Browning A-5 build date I have a Browning A-5 trying figure out manufacture date. Receiver reads 74V 29722. Help! Thanks!

December 5, 2011, 09:41 AM	#2
jrothWA Senior Member Join Date: November 11, 2006 Posts: 2,519	Its a 1974 manifacture date, ... the "V" indicates a Magnum reciever. Go to the browning website, under the "parts / service" there is a "date your Browning, to confirm. Recommend you get new friction bronzes, steel rings, and recoil; spring to insure good cyc;ing and reduced recoil. Also you can download a manual for it from the website.

December 8, 2011, 08:52 PM	#4
jrothWA Senior Member Join Date: November 11, 2006 Posts: 2,519	please PM me, as I have some complied A5 information.

December 8, 2011, 06:38 PM	#3
doverbakes Junior Member Join Date: December 4, 2011 Posts: 3	ok. It looked to me like from the web site the V meant 1975. I didn't read anywhere that the V meant Magnum.

December 8, 2011, 11:37 PM	#5
thedaddycat Senior Member Join Date: September 25, 2011 Posts: 388	From my reference book "Browning, Dates of Manufacture, 1824 to Present" First Edition, copyright 1988 (no ISBN). 74VXXXXX breaks down as follows: Date code, first two digits indicate 1974 manufacture V designates 12 ga. Magnum XXXXX is the serial number

December 14, 2011, 05:22 PM	#6
doverbakes Junior Member Join Date: December 4, 2011 Posts: 3	Thanks so much for all the info!