And at that price no one wants them! He'd be lucky to get $200 for it.It was the B2000 that was suppose to replace the A5 as a gas auto but it was a flop. You can find Belgium made A5 for under $500 all day long at just about any good gun shop. The figured the gun was worth $2k at least because it was a classic and 'Belgium' made. I once saw a 'Locker War' show where the winner of the bid found an A5 in one of the boxes. The guns on the market today are very advanced and are prefered to what the older guns offer in performance. The B-80 was a transition gun that got Browning from the A5 to what the sell today, the Gold and Maxus lines. We have also seen markings where roman and numerical figures are combined, for example XX 8 instead of the listed XXVIII for year 1972.I've bought many older shotguns in the past and the one thing I've noticed is that unless it's a rare classic in excellent condition it does not hold value. In some cases the actual date was stamped instead of these marks, this is normally seen on older pistols. You may need to remove the barrel to read the mark. Shotguns have this mark stamped on the barrel near the chamber. For recent pistols this mark is usually located on the frame near the trigger guard, for older pistols, the mark is on the slide or on the frame behind the grip area. The chart below is used to identify the year by this mark. I lay awake at night wondering if there is a dog.īeretta firearms produced in Italy carry a proof mark for the year of production. I just looked at one of my Beretta O/U's which I bought in 1994 and it has the BC date code (1993) enclosed in a square on the bottom of the barrels but not on the receiver. Pull the forearm off, remove the barrels, and look for it on the underside of the barrels and on the flats of the receiver, where the barrels rest against the receiver when closed. If it was made before 1945, I dunno - maybe no code. The codes seem to start in 1945 and the gun was discontinued in 1967, so yours will probably have a Roman numeral between I and XXIII. It is hard to read the words above the table in that image, but it says 'The markings are most commonly found on the receiver/frame and on the barrel.' I'm not familiar with Silver Hawks either, all I know is it is a side-by-side and the Blue Book says it was discontinued in 1967.

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