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BERETTA 690 O/U SPORTER 12ga 32in BEAUTIFUL STOCK AN EXCELLENT SPORTING GUN
Guns International #: 101586385 Seller's Inventory #: E-15838
Category: Beretta Shotguns - O/U - Shotguns - Sporting Clays
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Seller: BerettaGalleryNYC
Company: Beretta Gallery
Member Since: 3/29/19
State: New York
Zip: 10065
Country: United States
Phone: (212) 319-3235
Number of Active Listings: 2
Total Number of Listings: 543
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
All sales final after 14 days. Anything before 14 days store
Payment Types Accepted: All
Description:
Clay target guns – especially those in the mid-price range – have come a long way in the last 30 years. The Sporter in particular, which then barely existed, now stands alongside Trap and Skeet models with a choice of dedicated specifications that were simply not available until recently. This month, I’ve been looking at a relative newcomer to the marketplace from Beretta.
The action
Designated as the 690 Sport Black, the firearm includes the now time-proven features that were incorporated into its ancestor, the 680. A low-profile action with all the requirements of elegance, strength and reliability at a relatively modest price is a difficult task for any manufacturer, but Beretta has decided to rise
to the challenge.
As with most expensive over-and-unders, the 690 foregoes under-bolting, which creates an inherently deep action and locates the gun’s security above the bottom barrel. All the best London makers – Purdey, Woodward and Boss – came to the same conclusion many decades ago, but in their case it involved a considerable amount of costly handwork. It could be said that Beretta has created a shorthand version of the principle, but it is no less strong and has a similar elegant low profile.
In the case of the 690 and Beretta’s other over-and-unders, a bifurcated or split bolt, similar in principle to those London guns, is located in recesses above the bottom barrel. This, as Beretta’s great gun designer Tullio Marengoni concluded after many experiments in the 1930s, works with the forces generated by the explosion of the cartridge that naturally flex the barrels and the action together.
That would have been enough for many gunmakers but Beretta reinforces this arrangement with trapezoidal shoulders integral to the barrels monobloc, which locate with reciprocating bearing surfaces provided each side of the actions breech face.
A coil spring trigger mechanism is incorporated into a trigger plate action, the hammers being cocked off rods running through the action body by way of the forend iron with the opening of the gun. Having been constantly revised and improved over the years, the Beretta 690, as with its stablemates, provides class-leading trigger pulls for both function and reliability.
SOLD
Manufacturer: Beretta
Model: 690 BLACK
Serial Number: N89405S
Barrel Length: 32
Chambers: 3
Ejectors: Automatic
Condition: NEW
Wood Condition: Beautiful
Action: O/U