UGB25 Xcel Sporting

Ahsan Ahmed

Ahsan Ahmed

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Much appreciate if folks here are able to provide any/all first hand experience on the firearm in question. My searches did not reveal much info.

I would like to acquire a semi and the Xcel 400 would have been an excellent choice if I could get past the receiver color which is a deterrent at this point.

The UGB25 Xcel Sporting could be a great alternative and appeals to me in more ways than one as I prefer breechloading shotguns. However, it appears there are just too many moving parts in this particular firearm......

Thanks,
 
Thanks very much for pointing me to that thread (my search, previously, had failed to reveal anything here at CGN).

Admiitedly, I'm quite old school when it comes to firearms design, however, being an IT guy I am also not usually apprehensive when it comes to embracing changes. :)

I would have to inspect one personally. One of the post (by CB) in that thread may be a cause for concern as my intent would be to use such specimen for Skeet and SC only. The positive thing is that a sporting model is half the $ compared to a trap gun.

Asking out of curiosity, exactly how many plastic components (other than the trigger plate) are there in that firearm?
 
Ahsan, my 391 Gold Optima Sporter has not been cleanned since 2003! it has had many more hunting loads than clean target loads an will shoot reliably 2 1/2 dram trainning loads. The Explor A400 is even a better, lower recoilling shotgun. Go with the Explor!
Regards
Henry;)
 
Hi Ahsan,
I think that the UGB would be fine for skeet and sporting clays. I only shot mine at trap, though. The one thing that I did not like about the gun was that it ejected the shells (yes, what it was designed to do) and no one had yet designed a shell catcher. I prefer just catching the empty hulls myself and dropping them in the bin or pocketing them.

As for the plastic, I think it is actually a high-strength polymer not unlike what a Glock pistol is made of, so it should be durable enough. Only the trigger unit, the thumb lever and (if memory serves) the rearward fitting on the forearm were polymer. The mechanism to adjust the comb may also have been polymer.

If you can get one for a good deal, then perhaps you should consider it. I would try one out first, if you can. There is a fellow at my local trap club that shoots one and he really likes it (he shoots it very well, too).
 
I think the color of the Beretta A400 Xcel is nice myself. I do understand that its bright, and when I first got mine and took it to the trap club lots of the old timers thought it was a "toy" gun. But man does it shoot. Too bad they didnt make it with a gray receiver or something like that.
 
With any gun the real answer is getting the opportunity to shoot one preferably without having to buy it. The UGBs I've tried are cumbersome in their loading and opening operation, sluggish in their handlng and with huge action gape when open exposing most of the operating mechanism I wonder how well it would work in bad weather.

The other point I noticed is the trigger. It but doesn't have the same feel when it recocked as a 391. The first couple of times I tried the gun I thought it had not functioned.
 
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