No, not neccesarily. Some American made auto 5 shotguns say on the barrel: "Browning Arms Co. St. Louis mo." Nowhere will it say made in Belgium if this is the case. If the barrel is correct to the receiver and the barrel says made in Belgium, then it is.
i have a belgian browning BAR that pre-dates the 1969 and up format for serial numbers; the no is 04238 m71; it says browning arms, morgan, utah, and montreal, p.q. (province of quebec) on left side, and on the other says browning patents; it also says 30-06 cal only; any idea of the date of this rifle?
50-600 usd
Your Browning sweet sixteen auto-5 shotgun was made in the year 1948.
Also, there are no serial numbers on this shotgun but there are a series of dates, 1900, 19001 and it says Browning patents - manufactured at Remington arms - How can I date this gun?
A lot of the time it says made in Belgium on the barrel. Also many A-5's that have a round knob for the stock they are Belgium but that it not a definite. They moved manufacturing to japan in 1976 and they changed their serial number coding. http://www.browning.com/customerservice/dategun/detail.asp?id=13
Whether you should or not will depend on what Browning says in relation to their warranty.
This is a Standard Weight Browning Auto-5 made in 1954.
If this was all the number there was, then the gun was made in 1903 and the barrel says: "Browning Automatic Arms Co." If not, then the serial number has a letter or letter and number above the four digits which will identify it. Check and ask again if this is the case.
Browning.com has sn data under customer service. You can request a factory letter for @@ 40 USD>
The term "acier special" is found on many Auto-5 shotguns. It is French for "special steel". The stamp "acier special" found on barrels are for Fabrique Nationale guns, and NOT Browning Arms Co. guns. Fabrique Nationale (FN) was the manufacturer of all Belgian Browning guns. Browning was simply an importer and bought guns with their name on them to sell in the United States. FN was licensed to make and sell some of these models World Wide outside the US. If it says "acier" on the barrel then, you probably have an FN gun. It's possible to have one of these barrels fitted on a genuine Browning gun, but then the receiver would identify the mix & match. FN Auto 5's as a custom, used the term Browning patent on many of their guns along with acier special. These guns never were sold in the US, but somehow made it to the states from overseas. Many guns were brought by returning US servicemen from WWII and so on.
Impossible to answer without a detailed description.
No. Many manufacturers have used Browning's patents. Your gun was made by Savage/Stevens. sales@countrygunsmith.net