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Well curiousity got the best of me and I'm glad it did, I've been looking for one at a decent price for a couple of years but you dont seem to see very many of them but when you do the price is well a little much. This one came in right at the price I was willing to pay. It has the speed trigger which gets bad reviews but not sure why,some think it works as a single trigger, but its basically set up internally as a double trigger. The trigger blade looks a little strange but its easy to operate, it sort of lets your finger roll on a pivot. One thing that threw me off was the barrel/trigger set up. The top barrel is tight and the back trigger sets it off, the bottom barrel open with the top trigger. For some reason this threw me off when shooting.

Well done!
Enjoy and shoot her lots
Mike

I've had and shoot one from time to time since they were introduced [mid 70's?] No side ribs, common & very simple, but stout extractor & the stock & forearm is a walnut stained birch, if I'm not mistaken. Birch is actually harder than walnut, JIC anyone is interested. Wot attracted me to the gun was the large opening in the trigger guard, meaning it lent itself to the use of heavy gloves w/no interference and the 'speed' trigger provides an even faster instant available selection of chokes than two triggers, if you can get past it's looks. Most people didn't/couldn't. Also, I found the extractor attractive as I don't enjoy searching for spent hulls when afield and I'm not wont to leave them. Goes w/o saying that the light weight is a real asset when carrying the gun much more than shooting it. Have never experienced the awkwardness you mention w/the speed trigger. To me, the finger naturally 'moves' from top to bottom or more open choke to tighter when shooting, but it is no issue to reverse w/a conscious decision to use the tighter choked bbl. first.

My suggestion is to not shoot a lot of rounds through it at any one time, like doing a hundred skeet targets. Rather, take it to a sporty clays course where you can shoot perhaps a box of cartridges, take a break or have lunch and then perhaps go shoot another box and call it a day. Shoot it low-gun as sporty clays was originally set up & designed to be played. Afield, you are not going to shoot w/a pre-mounted gun, so why abuse yourself doing so to acclimate yourself to the use of a new one?

I think you will grow to quite enjoy that gun when used for its intended purpose. Not many of them around, so always a FUN conversation piece as well.

If you reload, look into some of the 24 gram or 7/8oz. loads and use hard #7 shot at up to 1200fps for taking smaller game birds and experiencing negligible recoil, you will be ever so politely rewarded for doing so.

I think they are pretty neat guns for trudging about the fields in cold weather. Most found them ugly rather than looking at wot they actually had to offer. They are 'sleepers'; battle ship stout using a long proven action w/good bbl.'s and quick handling. Wots not to like? Oh, there is that unusual looking trigger!? I've never experienced any issue w/mine & I've never read nor heard of anyone else who has had a problem w/one either.

addendum: Whot kinda dog? Cat hair?

Not cat hair, Emglish Pointer, he's pretty bad at shedding in the winter, one thing they dont tell you about pointers is that your life and wardrobe will now include dog hair!

Last year, I bought a double trigger BL-1 at a gun show. Great little gun, 12 gauge, 28" modified and full.

Very solid guns. They even made police grade with factory 18.5" barrels Cyl/Cyl or 1/4/1/4. These are very, very rare. I have only seen one many, many years ago.

A friend owns one of the police guns. It may be the last gun in his safe that he would sell.

it's called the BL2 stakeout.

Everybody who favors O/Us needs a good basic one like this for hunting in rough country and/or bad weather. I favor the Savage 330 made in Finland by Valmet, but have to admit that the Beretta is usually a much lighter gun, guage for guage. Once had a 685 and really liked it (went for a house payment in the early '80s recession....).

The big trigger guard is a definite plus in cold weather, and many Italian guns don't have them.