My new go to field gun and what I believe will be the top seller in it’s category for years to come, check out the new A300 ULTIMA from @beretta_firearms. #staydialed
I just bought one of these and took it to the range straight out of the box. It stove-piped like every other shot. Took it home and field stripped it, (very easy to do) and found the moving parts were caked in heavy packing grease. I cleaned the action, the trigger group, and the gas system thoroughly, then replaced the grease with a light coat of high-quality CPL. I took it back to the range, and it ran like a champ! 100 rounds with zero issues. FWIW, my bolt release is metal. The gun is perfect for what I want, has rock-solid reliability since I've cleaned it, and is great looking to boot. I paid all of $719 for it. Can't imagine a better semiauto shotgun for that price.
Stripping and removing packing grease is THE NUMBER ONE thing you should do soon as you get a new gun. Bad as we want to shoot em' if thick grease isn't removed then give you a bad 1st impression. Sounds like you got er' figured out!!!!
Be aware Beretta has the worst customer service in the industry. I recently got a 12 gague a300 Ultima 12 gague and after cleaning out of the box it is defective. It took Beretta a month to respond to my warranty request and it will be another 6 weeks minimum before they look at it. That means my entire waterfowl season is shot. They don't answer their phone or care about their customers so beware of their new products as warranty backlog is over 6 weeks sounds like my story is not a 1off. They will also block you from their social media before responding to you if you call them out.
With the Beretta bolts, you need to get the plunger, attached to the bolt to fall into a hole at the back of the receiver and at the front of the stock in order to pull the bolt back. My A300 outlander is the same way.
I know exactly what you mean. When I took mine apart I put the plunger back upside down and couldn't get the bolt to cycle (seems to me it would be easy for Beretta to key this so that wasn't possible, but, whatever). I had to go to a cleaning video, and even then it took me a minute to realize what I'd done. Once I did, I was able to put the gun back together no fuss no muss.
Ergonomics on the a300 ultima are tremendous, the natural sweeping transition from safety to shooting coupled with kick off make it a sweet shooter.. fore-end feels a little cheap compared to a400 but it is considerably cheaper.. I think the fiber optic front tube is a little too large on the a300 Ultima though
Nice review, but as far as what you said about paying $650 ($750) and expecting a $2,000 shotgun, the thing we need to ask ourselves is that if the only thing that you don't like is the cheap plastic stock and the plastic bolt release, it obviously would not cost $1,250 to add an overmolded stock and a metal bolt release. So at that point we have to ask ourselves, "Why in hell do we pay $2,000 or more for shotgun?" The first answer is usually, "Supply & Demand" (it may not cost anywhere near $1,250 to add those features, but if people are willing to pay it....", but my answer to that is that in a "free market", someone would see the opportunity of selling a ton of shotguns having all these features in a package still under $1,000, so what has prevented that from occurring? After all, this isn't rocket science. Contrary to popular belief, there has not been any major breakthroughs in firearms technology that couldn't have been had a hundred years ago (literally). When you look at the advancement over the last century of firearms compared to automobiles, or better yet, motorcycles (because there are far more guns in this world than motorcycles), you can see the firearms industry hasn't felt the competitive pressure to innovate quickly. Why is that? If the answer still eludes you and/or others, I will sum it up with one word: "oligopoly". Oligopolies are an untold reality in what would otherwise be a free market (which does not exist). It is utterly illegal, but the phenomenon is taught in MBA classes on business ethics and hundreds of mid-level executives were convicted and sent to prison in just a two year period less than ten years ago for this sort of thing. CEO's keep their noses clean by not negotiating directly, but mid-level executives meet at trade shows to agree on production and pricing so no one corners the market to allow each company to be as profitable as possible (trade shows provide a reason for these execs to be in the same place at the same time), and they cook the books every once in awhile to make companies like Remington struggle to keep up the illusion of true competition, but what we have are a bunch of companies working in concert to monopolize a market. Again, this is not a conspiracy theory, it is a matter of public record as people get busted for this all the time. Heck, my MBA textbook about business ethics even fingered Smith & Wesson and Ruger specifically in the context of revolvers, but it happens for virtually everything (televisions, banking services, automobiles, etc.).
The stock doesn’t recoil back. There springs on the pad. The button on in the mag well holds the the slide back or you can pull the trigger. Don’t hit on it with a hammer!
Are you capable of changing the stock to a aftermarket one / different one if you don’t like the Kick Off System? or does the gun need that to function?
chrisRedwolf....Not sure about being able to change stock (I assume you would want to install pistol grip maybe?) I CAN say this though, you WILL LOVE THE KICK OFF!!!! A 20 gauge heavy turkey load will recoil LESS than the lightest target load you can imagine!!!!
@@kykrazy6050 i understand that after shooting 12ga Turkey loads through my uncle’s pump shotgun. But what i meant was like the way you can put a Magpul stock on the 1301 which i don’t think has the Kick Off System. The reason i asked was because on a lot of A300 models the Kick Off System is located right in-front of your face and i have seen reviews where the guy shooting has less recoil to the shoulder but because of the Kick Off System feels the recoil in their face / cheek. Not something i would appreciate a shotgun doing. So knowing if you could fix the problem ( if it is a problem ) before hand or having to look for a different shotgun is helpful.
@@chrisredwolf3130That is the a400 system where the stock itself also moves its kick off plus or something. I bought the version without it and did not get any cheek slap. The recoil reduction is noticable vs an 870 pump despite adding extra weight to the 870. As far as changing the stock you can purchase a300’s without kickoff stock, they cost less.
The groove you pointed to in the video is not where the recoil reducing properties take place i believe. It really reduces recoil in the butt end of the stock. I have this gun in camo and the area you pointed to is just hard plastic.
Cole thanks for the note, they actually refer to it as the compression zone. See link below, you are correct that the Kick Off System I referred is toward the rear of the stock. The gun does in fact compress in the middle of the stock allowing your cheek weld to remain the same. Thanks for the note and I apologize for the error. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e9BYqg4LHu4.html
@@ClaytonRotz1 the link you have there is a video of the a400. The video we are commenting on is for the a300 Ultima. The stocks look similar but I don’t think the v-shaped section on the a300 Ultima compresses at all.
Quality is crap on most guns these days. You can spend $2600 on a shotgun and it’ll have failures or you can spend $600 and have failures. The quality is just not what it used to be on anything anymore. There’s a reason why 40 year old shotguns are going for the same price as the new. And that’s because people are looking for quality. If I spend $1,500 on a shotgun or even $800 I expect it to be quality. Especially when you used to get shotguns from Walmart with better quality than the new guns and are paying stupid prices for them.
