your browning light weight auto-5 shotgun should have a serial number prefix of L for the years 1953-1956,or G for the years 1956-1958.For the years 1958-1976 the prefix should have a single number prefix followed by a G ,or a 2 number prefix followed by a G.You have not included any of these.Please re-post your question with this info to get a accurate year of production.If you have none of these number prefix,s then your shotgun is not a light weight model but a standard weight model.
Impossible to answer without the serial number.
The prefix 4G indicates that your Browning light weight model auto-5 shotgun was made in the year 1964.
Your serial number indicates that you have a Browning light weight model auto-5 shotgun that was made in the year 1965.
The Browning light twelve shotguns serial numbers do not go that high.Please check and see if there are any letters in your serial number,or before or after your serial number.
With the serial number L52017,your Browning auto-5 light weight model shotgun was made by FN of Belgium for Browning in the year 1955.
Your Browning BLR model rifle was made in the year 1969.
Your prefix to the serial number,which is read as Zero G indicates that you have a Browning auto-5 light weight model shotgun,that was made in the year 1960.The letter G designates that your shotgun is a light weight model.
The serial number L52789 indicates that you have a Browning light weight model,auto-5 shotgun which was made in the year 1955.
i believe it is 1951 and it is a light weight model. the 1 stands for 1951. my 7G was made in 1957 and is a light weight model. trebor
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Your serial number indicates that you have a Browning light weight model auto-5 shotgun that was made in the year 1964.
With the serial number that you have provided,your Browning light weight model Auto-5 shotgun was made in the year 1958.