Home Forums Birds & Dogs Shotguns Beretta 390 or Outlander A300

The 391s started attaching the springs to the barrel band, if/when the spring would seize up, after a lot of shooting, it cause the barrel band to literally break form the barrel. The operating arms were also notorious for breaking off the sleeve, trigger assemblies had carrier issues. Another issues was the spring in the end cap, it would seize up and cause issues. I sent a like new 391 sporting back that would jam like no other, sure cycle didn't even fix it. They sent me a brand new one and was nice enough to swap my sure cycle and angle port barrel over to it. Wood wasn't near as pretty and I was a little aggravated and let it go. Then beretta started having issues with the new rotating bolt, the hole the pin would sit in would wallow out and people started having misfire issues. Hold a new a300 up to an older 390 or even a 391, quality just isn't the same. Heck, the new synthetic versions don't feel near as solid as the older ones. Two buddies bought outlanders in the past year, no case, and came with old mobil chokes instead of the nicer optima or optima hp chokes.Beretta doing whatever to save a few bucks. I've owned 7 berettas over the years but now I am down to my xtrema2 and a silver pigeon 2 sporting. 390s are still highly praised in my neck of the woods and I've seen even the old walmart ones bring 5-600 bucks used.

My buddies who frequented mexico wing shooting can attest to a lot of this. The mexican guide they used would have them buy all the 390s they could find for him to use for clients. 390s and benelli m1s were the only guns that could handle the amount of rounds they were sending down the barrels. I've also seen these issues at our gun club.The serious sporting clay guys around here that lived for berettas had to stop shooting the new beretta autos as they were no longer reliable as needed and costing them targets.Heck, my buddies new multitarget that he spent 2600 on had the threaded piece that the cap screws on to literally break about a month ago. Never seen that one before.

I'm not saying the new berettas are junk, but their reliability isn't what it used tobe. They've gone backwards and now on even playing field as other autos when they used to the standard everything was compared against.