Bigchillin83
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hello all, just figured I would give a quick review on my beretta 1301 tactical. has a 18 1/2" barrel cylinder bore, ghost sights, holds 5 plus 1( have to remove the black spring holder and use the threaded cap to hold spring in, so on taking it apart you will have to watch out the spring doesn't go flying) otherwise it holds 4 plus 1. took it to the range this weekend and ran a some slugs, 00 buck and 7shot through it. ran a good 2 boxes of 7 shot 7/8 powder with not a single issue!!!! usually the short barrel semi auto shotguns do not like nothing but high brass, but this beretta with the blink system ate them up, just like my A400 extreme!!!! I tried Winchester 00buck and had the typical 1" spread per yard... so about 23" pattern with cylinder bore at 25yards, nice for a tactical shotgun, but was wanting a little tighter because I want to use it as a deer hunting shotgun also. I hunt in the swamps usually paddling a pirogue never much more than 50 yrd shot. so I tried some federal flight control 00 buck, wow!!! I got a good 8"-10" group at 30 yards!!! that stuff is amazing!!! off to the slugs, I was able to put 5 slugs in a 4" group at 50 yards from a standing position, way better than I was expecting. in the recoil dept. it really wasn't that bad for a shotgun that only weighs 6.3lbs. I did add a sims limb saver, which prob helped a lot. I will try to load the rest of the pics later of the patterns. paid right at $1097 out the door at bass pro, kinda high for a tactical shotgun, but after do some research by time I bought a semi/pump, added the extended tube and sights,extended charging handle, extended bolt release, extended safety, picitany rail, and drilled and tapped reciver, and the fine tuning to get a 1187 to function I would have been around the same price. so if you are considering this gun I would say go with it, btw I was considering getting the 1301 comp. that has a 21" barrel, but all bass pro had was the 24" barrel and has a bead sight. I wanted the option of changing chokes, but with a pattern like that with flight control I got more than I need with that pattern.... well
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