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WTK: softest shooting auto 12guage
- Thread starter Michael64
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From what I've heard, the Beretta AL390 is rumored to be the softest recoiling semi-auto. I may be wrong, but this is what the guys at the gun shop told me.
Of course my opinion on this will be biased since I own one! The recoil feels only slightly softer than my friend's Rem 11-87. One thing to note though is that my AL390 is much lighter than my friend's 11-87. Hence, recoil feels similar. I'm sure if they weighed the same, recoil on the Beretta will feel significantly lighter.
The Benelli M1 Super 90 is a recoil operated, hence more recoil than gas guns like the Beretta and Remington.
[This message has been edited by jcoyoung (edited January 31, 2000).]
Of course my opinion on this will be biased since I own one! The recoil feels only slightly softer than my friend's Rem 11-87. One thing to note though is that my AL390 is much lighter than my friend's 11-87. Hence, recoil feels similar. I'm sure if they weighed the same, recoil on the Beretta will feel significantly lighter.
The Benelli M1 Super 90 is a recoil operated, hence more recoil than gas guns like the Beretta and Remington.
[This message has been edited by jcoyoung (edited January 31, 2000).]
Check out the Remington website, they are Re-introducing the model 1100 as a trap and sporting clays gun. The 1100 has a reputation as the softest shooting auto, but it will probably only take 2 3/4 in shells in the above configuration. The 1100 is definitely different than the 11-87.
To soften the recoil with beretta AL390's consider adding one or more of the recoil reducers sold for the gun. One is a weight added to the magazine cap and another is a mercury filled tube added to the inside of the stock. I have seen quite a few of these guns with the above recoil reducers added on the sporting clays ranges I shoot at. The 390 has given recoil sensitive shooters new life on the clays ranges
Check out these websites:
www.seminolegun.com
www.angleport.com
both companies do custom work on AL390's.
Hope this is of some help.
Geoff Ross
To soften the recoil with beretta AL390's consider adding one or more of the recoil reducers sold for the gun. One is a weight added to the magazine cap and another is a mercury filled tube added to the inside of the stock. I have seen quite a few of these guns with the above recoil reducers added on the sporting clays ranges I shoot at. The 390 has given recoil sensitive shooters new life on the clays ranges
Check out these websites:
www.seminolegun.com
www.angleport.com
both companies do custom work on AL390's.
Hope this is of some help.
Geoff Ross
Muleshoe, mercury is liquid, lead isn't (at normal temps).
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Ned Roundtree
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Ditto Beretta AL390 for smoothness and least recoil.
[This message has been edited by Ned Roundtree (edited January 31, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Ned Roundtree (edited January 31, 2000).]
Muleshue, as Coinneach stated, mercury is liquid at room temperatures. The recoil dampers utilize the mercury sloshing around the tube to reduce recoil, some law of physics that I barely understand. Some shooters have used lead in the stock or even in the magazine tube to add weight and reduce recoil in autos. More weight =less recoil.
I wouldn't want to have the mercury leak out of the tube, but guys I know who use the mercury filled recoil dampers swear by them. One guy I know has three of them on his AL390, two in the stock and one on the magazine tube cap. His gun is lefthanded, so I havent tried to shoot it, but have shot another with two dampers and it definitely was soft shooting.
BTW, I just noticed that seminole does work on Benellis, maybe they can take the bite out of Michael64's M1.
Geoff Ross
I wouldn't want to have the mercury leak out of the tube, but guys I know who use the mercury filled recoil dampers swear by them. One guy I know has three of them on his AL390, two in the stock and one on the magazine tube cap. His gun is lefthanded, so I havent tried to shoot it, but have shot another with two dampers and it definitely was soft shooting.
BTW, I just noticed that seminole does work on Benellis, maybe they can take the bite out of Michael64's M1.
Geoff Ross