Ha,
I’m still thinking about the 28,just cause it’s so cool to have, but I have been on two hunts recently that went straight up…I hunt BC, and it is steep stuff.The other day went 12k and gained about 3000ft.The problem is that the birds are wild, and some of the Blue grouse are big.The chucker hunting is just as nasty.So I need light, but I need some reach for larger birds.The last thing I want is to finally get at birds and say to myself “ geez, those Blue grouse are 40 yards out, I’m not gonna risk it with the 28”.
So what did I do? What any self respecting gunnut would do….I researched the #### out of it, and narrowed it down to Benelli BUL 12, and Some O/U ultralights….then I researched some more. Found a rarer gun, they appear to be popular in EU….Beretta A400 Ultralight 12 gauge.
Just a hair under 6 pounds, real wood stock and forened, nicely finished, although plain ( fine for me) and has Berettas Blink gas system to reduce recoil a little for such a light gun( guys that have BUL - recoil system say it can rattle your teeth a bit).The A400 system seems solid after ring around 10 years.Berettas fit me like they measured me at their factory, my last auto loader from Beretta was AL 390 that I shot ducks with for 25 years and sold for 50 bucks more then I originally paid for it new( finally got tired of changing the recoil spring in the butt stock).
I like real wood, And I’m not keen on aluminum receivers on O/U guns, so this might be the ticket.It’s in the mail to me …. We will see.
I’m still eyeballing a 28 gauge though, cause you can’t have enough guns and they are very cool.
