Duck gun discussion

It might not be this weekend, but I’ll have the Browning Silver on opening day here

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I’ll have the Browning Silver on opening day here

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Mine's never let me down.

Jr got attached to my Remington Model 11. Its 70 yrs old but never fails to deliver.

Have had a variety of beretta's, great guns. Put my A400 Xtreme in the closet when I got my Benelli M2, and eventually just sold the A400. Way too bulky and for duck hunting I'll take inertia all day long over gas despite the little bit more kick I get. Way easier to clean when hunting ugly conditions, rain/mud, etc. less moving parts.

For clays? Beretta AL390 is still my go-to every time.

Why do you like the M2 over the A400 besides the extra bulk? Is it a better shooting gun? Patterns? POI?

Benelli ultralight 12ga

Definitely not the ideal duck gun, but it kills ducks. I only hunt with 2-3/4 shells and the recoil still gets old quick.

I wish I still had my Gen 1, I'd trade it for my III in a heartbeat.

Walked on a synthetic gen I at woods and waters in Tuscaloosa 15 years ago that still haunts me. Think they wanted $750 for it and it was cherry. Mine is beat up and held together with baling wire but still delivers when i hunt the duck.

Why all the love for M2 over SBE3?

Kind of a catch-all here since a few inquired. Of note I hunted an Xtrema2 for many years before upgrading to the A400 Xtreme when it came out (though an impulse buy). Both were great guns.

Why M2 and not SBE.....M2 is a 3 inch gun, and contrary to the real duck hunting pro's out there, you don't need 3.5" shells to kill ducks and geese. As a result, it's scaled slightly smaller than the SBE family because of the shorter breech, and is thus very light.

Nothing wrong with the SBE's that I know of, I just like the M2 as a very simple no-nonsense duck gun. I throw it in the grass, bottom of pirogue, etc. 35-40 hunts a season.

As for the 3.5" Beretta's vs the benelli's, I once heard someone describe it as "swinging a 2X4" and sure enough, the bulk of the big Beretta's is just about like that once you step away and shoulder some slimmer guns. That said, the smaller framed beretta's with the skinnier fore ends on them swing super sweet.