In 1899, Browning approached Winchester president T.G. Bennett with a revolutionary new design for the world’s first semi-automatic ­shotgun (between 1893 and 1902, Winchester purchased a total ...

Introduced in the early 20th century, the Browning Auto-5 was the first commercially successful autoloading shotgun. A revolutionary design at the time, the Auto-5 worked by harnessing the gasses ...

The Browning Maxus II was, for me, one of the biggest, most pleasant surprises of our waterfowl shotgun test. Never bowled over by the original Maxus, I was ready to be unimpressed.

The Browning Auto 5 was originally created in the 1800s with a patent finally put on it in the 1900s after about 100 years of use. From 1903 onward it was mass produced in the US. Despite its ...

Before I share my top picks with you, we need to discuss the Browning Auto 5. We need to start with this epic boomstick to know how the modern semi-auto shotgun industry started.

Why it Made the Cut This is a functional and capable semi-automatic shotgun that has a real-world price of about $550. There aren’t many shotguns (even pump shotguns) at the $550 price point that we ...

The Winchester Model 1911 SL is a shotgun you may have never heard of, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A “self-loading” semi-auto, it came into production in 1912. Like so many stories about ...