u/Ok-Spinach-1692

I can shoot 200 or so 1 1/8 oz 1145 before recoil starts to get to me to the point of potential flinches, specifically when shooting the top gun. Also found all 1145 fps 1145 shells are not created equal (REM STS, Rio, top gun, etc). For example top gun kills me, but rio is the softest shooting out of the bunch.

I have resorted to shooting rio 7/8 oz 1200 fps whenever practicing, and recently picked up a lot of 7/8 and 1 oz 1160 fps B&P for both skeet and sporting that I’m pretty excited to shoot. This stuff shoots like a dream and I honestly have confidence in it for pretty much anything im likely to see within 50-60 yards. The most I’ll shoot is 3-500 shells in a day, sometimes more across a weekend.

I can pretty much shoot anything out of my a300 with no recoil issue which kinda goes without saying.

I understand gun fit is important and have had several lessons with various levels of coaches including Anthony Matarese and they haven’t noticed anything with my mount or glaring fit issue. I shoot a beretta 688 and love it, but seriously wonder if on my next gun it’s worth it to get a custom stock.

Found someone on an obscure FB group post with the same issue from 2019 but no follow up……

I was having failure to fires on second barrel particularly when shooting 7/8 oz. Did the “mechanical trigger mod” by swapping the inertia block lever and inertia block springs to 410 springs and all was well for 500+ rounds until I realized when firing top barrel first the trigger would not “spring” back and the action would lock up. It could easily be physically pushed forward and everything would reset. Took it to a local gun smith and he said it may need a stronger trigger return spring.

Thoughts? Beretta confirmed the 688 and 686 trigger springs are all interchangeable and from what I can tell the entire inertia system is as well.

FOR CLARIFICATION: When firing bottom barrel first gun functions as intended. This is only when firing top barrel first.