Is this a trap gun?

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It a Beretta AL391 Urika 12 ga. with a 32" barrel. The stock has has a small rise in the comb, but not what I would call a Monte Carlo. The vent rib has a small "step" up in it and seems a bit higher than on a sporting or field gun.

Is this a trap gun? Is it configured to have a POI higher than the bead, or is is configured to impact dead-on bead like a sporting/field gun? Please and thank you :)

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Probably ... is the comb and the rib parallel? You would have to put the barrel on paper to find out. Many Berettas pattern flat, even the x rib trap guns, with the beads stacked.
 
Does it matter? I had a moron with an 870 wingmaster trying to convince me his gun was better for trap than my benelli super sport. POI above the bead doesn't matter unless you constantly shoot low and can't fix it by technique.

One of the better trap guys I know uses an Ulrika.
 
It is not a Trap gun, but could be used as one, depends on how you shoot, prolly meant for sporting clays, does not have the much higher impact from what I can see although I am not a Beretta user.
 
I havethis samegun but in the synthetic, I use it for trap and in imho it out preforms my 870, Also I would swear it has a very noticable higher poi than the 870 as well
 
ben hunchak said:
It is not a Trap gun, but could be used as one, depends on how you shoot, prolly meant for sporting clays, does not have the much higher impact from what I can see although I am not a Beretta user.
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I think it is a Trap gun. Beretta doesn't list a Sporting model with a 32" barrel.
 
It's a trap model because of the stock, 32" barrel and the stepped rib. The sporting version has a flat wide rib, standard stock and nothing longer than 30" barrels.
 
Nicer walnut than mine.

I'm pretty sure the barrel on mine is marked "trap". If you take the recoil pad off it should have the T-40-DX stock spacer if its a trap model.
 
I believe it's an original Trap model, and it appears to have the choke set that
was originally supplied with the Trap guns. Any original Trap that I've run across is
certainly configured "high".

The Trap models had 32" barrels, a stepped rib and M/C style stock.
To date, I've only seen 28" & 30" Parallel Targets, ( I have one of each) and have
so far, never seen a Parallel Target listed with a 32" barrel, but that's not to say someone
couldn't put a 32" Trap barrel on a PT - after the fact.

Sporters have flat ribs and straight stocks.
 
When I ordered my second parallel target I was given the choice of 30 or 32 inch barrels. I chose 30 inch. Both mine are 30 inch, but the 32 inch choice is listed on page 123 of the 2008 2009 Annual Catalog.
 
Covey Ridge said:
When I ordered my second parallel target I was given the choice of 30 or 32 inch barrels. I chose 30 inch. Both mine are 30 inch, but the 32 inch choice is listed on page 123 of the 2008 2009 Annual Catalog.
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Interesting. Beretta doesn't list a 32" PT now but still has the 32" Trap and even a Urika Skeet gun in that length.

I wonder if Beretta decided to market that length for a brief period to relieve a backlog. The PT was in high demand at the time (still is) and uses the same stepped 10x8mm rib configuration as the Trap gun. Perhaps the trap guns weren't selling and they slapped a few PT stocks on what would otherwise be 32" trap guns.
 
Pattern the gun at 25 yards if it shoots high its a trap gun and by the looks of the high stock it is a trap gun.I had a 301 trap that had the montecarlo stock like that.
 
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