The A5 also features Browning’s Inflex recoil pad with a no-stick insert in the top and a series of baffles inside designed to direct recoil away from your face. The trigger broke at 6.9 pounds ...

The A5 also has the Inflex II recoil pad found on the Maxus, a very soft pad with baffles that direct the recoiling gun down and away from the shooter’s face. One Browning feature apparently ...

The checkering pattern on the Browning A5 forend. Photo by Natalie Krebs Both Snow and I ... I think that was the result of the gun fitting me well and the cushy Inflex II recoil pad. Because of its ...

Browning makes an A5 today which resembles the humpback profile of the original Auto 5. It is not the same gun as Browning’s long recoil model. It’s an inertia-operated gun modeled after the ...

"This thing really hammers the ducks,” wrote an NRA member in one of our first “Favorite Firearms” columns about the Browning ... of the gun under recoil. The 20-ga. A5 Hunter’s hammer ...

Recoil was a non-factor in the A5, surprising since it’s a sub-7-pound inertia-driven semi-auto. The Inflex Recoil pad made shooting the gun more than tolerable. Speed loading was invented by John ...