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Doverham, a 29.5 S2 is a rare bird in today's market. You will find 20 shorter barrelled S2s for every 29 or 30 inch gun. Short barrel S2s are a dime a dozen. The S2s on the trapshooter.com website, if they are there, would probably be on the For Sale forum which is below the discussion forum. Just scroll down.
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I'd pay extra for the longer barrels, even on a grouse gun.
If anyone out there has a set of Beretta BL 20ga barrels that are just too frikkin long...like a pesky 30" or so--and wants to trade for a lithe, light and nimble set of 26" tubes I'm your man.
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The word from Cole's:
New barrels - (laughter) $10k and 1yr+ wait
Old Barrels - even if you can find them, generally not wise to fit anything other than new barrels on the gun. The barrels were hand-fitted to their original action, so there is no guarantee that they can be safely fit onto another action. Even if the fit looks okay, it still may not be safe.
Take-away: don't buy an older S2/S3 if you can't live with the barrel configuration.
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Laughter is right...For $10K you can find a very good S3EELL with the 28" barrels. Also at $10K, 3.5 oz (~.100 Kg) is pretty expensive.
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1.465kg barrels are not heavy. That action is way more porky than a 12ga action needs to be cuz it was not designed to be primarily a field gun. I admit that 30" barrels can "feel" long if you're used to short barrels, but if you can actually feel 100gm spread over 30"s of over/under barrels you prolly don't want a S series of any kind Beretta.
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Interesting. I found this description on the following website http://www.berettaweb.com/S04/SO2.htm "Mod. S 0 2 « Super Caccia » over and under preferred for hard field use. Action made from nickel chrome alloy steel, handsomely hand engraved, casehardened, with beautiful white super finish. Barrels made from « Boehler Antinit Steel » with ventilated rib, chambered for all 2 314" shells. Automatic ejectors, concealed extension held down by sliding bolt. Free safety on the strap. Silver pigeon inlaid into the top lever. Ali interior parts chrome plated for frictionless action and durability. Selected walnut stock and forearm custom finished with hand checkering. Equipped with swivels and plastic butt plate. Straight or pistol grip. 12 gauge only."
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Thanks all. I was thinking about weight and to a lesser extent handling. These barrels are 1465g, making them ~100g heavier than other S2 barrels. I was planning to use the gun for upland game - obviously, this will not be a grouse gun but I want to make sure it would be workable for pheasants and chukars. All this for 3.5 oz? Drill out the stock. Change the butt pad. Have the forend reshaped. Pete
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Unless you're shooting planted chukar, a 30" S2 12g (or any other S series 12g for that matter) is a big heavy gun to be luggin up and down steep hills that wild chukar reside on. 3.5 oz won't matter much. You need to shave lbs. A 6lb gun feels like 30 at the end of a chukar day.
Last edited by Chuck H; 06/20/10 03:29 PM.
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I have no idea what "porky action" means. The S-series actions are not tall and the barrels don't contain any side type lumps for locking.
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Doverman,
I have SO2, SO3 & SO4. All have 28" barrels. Boo Hoo. I'd like to find some 30" or 32" barrels for all of them and I'd prefer to keep the factory barrels.
Does anyone think that a company or smith is making SO barrels for their current production gun? Wouldn't it be great if we could find production barrels that fit the SO frame(mind you with a little fitting up)?
Phil
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