My late grandfather purchased this Browning on Tuesday, December 20, 1977. My Mom gave it to me for Christmas. It was brand new, still in the box. It had some storage damage from moisture but after a good cleaning with a 4-00 steel wool and gun oil it cleaned up pretty good. I had a gun librarian at Cabella's look at it and he said it was a good shotgun but not as collectible as the Auto-5 was. I debated putting any rounds thru this and finally decided that my grandfather would have wanted me to shoot the piss out of it and get good use from it. It is a Belgian made shotgun.