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Lets start with the 20 gauge model.The prefix of 8Z to your serial number indicates that your Browning light weight auto-5 shotgun was made in Belgium in the year 1958.The light weight 12 gauge was made from 1953-1976.All light weight auto-5,12 gauge shotguns had a prefix of the letter L,or the letter G from 1953-1958.After words the prefix had a combination of a number and a letter from 1959-1976.This would appear as 8G,or 72G etc.Please check your light weight model auto-5 shotgun for this,and then we can identify the year of manufacture.

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