During the latter part of the 19 th century and first half of the 20 th, the 16-gauge shotgun was a very popular bore size, especially for upland hunting applications. Often referred to by admirers as ...

Browning’s introduction of the A5 semiauto in Sweet 16 should, I hope, raise the 16 gauge’s profile a little. With the Sweet 16, Browning did it right. Rather than put a 16-gauge barrel on a 12-gauge ...

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I could’ve blamed the wind (which I did, a little), but otherwise the fault rested squarely with my poor shooting. It certainly didn’t lie with my shotgun, a circa-1953 Browning A5 Sweet 16 with a ...

Only one frontier remains in the shotgun world, and only one manufacturer is poised to cross it. That frontier is the 16-gauge, which is all but extinct thanks to a couple of factors. One is the lack ...

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Only one frontier remains in the shotgun world, and only one manufacturer is poised to cross it. That frontier is the 16-gauge, which is all but extinct thanks to a couple of factors. One is the lack ...