Another Browning copy

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gyvel

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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)
 
The Rheinmetall shotgun looks like an A5, but is actually quite different.

And you can add Franchi to your list of copies.
 
Rheinmetall was a wonderful company. They designed an engineered everything very well. Also, they built this.
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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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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.
 
The Rheinmetall No. 4 is quite different inside. There is some good info on it on Gunboards Shotgun Forum
 
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.
 
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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Now's your chance; $589.00 on GB.
 
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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