Funny you should mention that, I am seriously considering using it for turkey starting this monday. I have a thread in the turkey section asking if there is a big difference between 3 inch turkey loads and 2 3/4 inch pheasant loads. I can only shoot 2 3/4 inchers out of this gun. I don't see where there is a big difference between 1 7/8 oz of #4 at 1200 fps and 1 3/8 oz of #5 moving at 1350 fps. There is about the same amount of pellets, just not as big or as heavy, but it's faster.

Here it is set up as a turkey gun. Undertaker .665 choke tube, a leather sling and adjustable fiber optic sights.


I discovered this gun takes the same choke tubes as a mossberg or my NEF pump gun. What a bonus, too bad I didn't keep all the chokes I had when I traded in my Mossy 500.

As far as I know it's the original barrel. It says 22 inches, But I measured it and it's actually 21 inches from the front of the reciever. I found a great forum for A5's and the resident A5 guru there said they are notorious for being a bit short of what they list them at. Something about they are actually metric barrels.

If Browning web site is correct it is a 1992 model. Looks like it wasn't used very much either. Even came with the original box and choke tubes. A guy on that other site said he has seen them go for $700 or more on gunbroker.com or something like that. So I guess I did pretty well on it. I wonder what they were new? This is the only stalker version I have every seen. Usually you see them with wood trim and 30 inch barrels.

I still need to pattern it and adjust the sights if they need it. I might do that monday after work. Then I will go hunting with it if I can get a tag. They are selling left over ones from what I understand. That would give me from the 17-30 of april to hunt. Not a lot of turkeys where I hunt though, so we will see what happens.

I don't think I will be selling it, I could give you a deal on a nice NEF pump that has only been fired twice though.

Paul