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Thanks so much! I appreciate itHey MG - I'll take a shot at it. Made in 1970 and appears to be in exceptional condition for a 50 year old shotgun; barely used. The good: They were invented by John Moses Browning and are literally works of art. They are a mechanical masterpiece and just totally cool. They were first and foremost hunting guns, but one like yours, with a fixed Improved Cylinder choke, makes an acceptable skeet gun. Actually a pretty cool and fun skeet gun, as well as a bird gun. The bad: They are like a 35mm film camera. No matter how high end, and expensive, and well engineered and well built your mid-70s Nikon or Leica is, nobody wants to buy it anymore. They had their time, which has now passed. Same with sweet old Browning long recoil Auto 5s. There are several hundred of them at any given time on gunbroker. Almost all with zero bids. Which is too bad, because when I was a kid, "rich guys" had Browning shotguns. That could be a $1K shotgun to the right buyer (old guy that always wanted one) because it checks all the right boxes - not a magnum, so it will cycle light loads: check. Great shape: check. Improved Cylinder choke: check. Belgium: check. I think $700 or $800 would be a more realistic goal were you to try to sell it.