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Glad you liked he article.

Maybe now you can understand why I keep posting that from the engineering point of view the 626 is a superior action to the Anson-Deeley. In addition to being easy to work on, its parts are hardened properly, and it also has secondary safety notches on its hammers to prevent accidental discharges.

Did your 625 come with an articulated front trigger? Most of the ones I came across have them, as do the 626 DTs.

So that was your article? If so, let me say it was one of the best gun articles I've ever read on any type of gun. It made it very clear to the reader exactly what the 626 was, and what it wasn't.
What a shame it is that they are no longer made. If Beretta doesn't want to make SXS shotguns themselves any longer, I wish they would let one of the Turkey companies make the 626 for them.

Yes, it has an articulated front trigger. All the right triggers I found available as parts were as well. But though I could find them in coin finish, I never saw one gold finished. And all of the left triggers I found were gold. If I had bought the parts, I was planning to send the right trigger somewhere to be gold plated. I can live with them being coin finished, but I couldn't handle them being different.

Yes, it was one of mine. I wrote it after it stopped production and after speaking with the late Giovanni Metelli, Beretta's head of their custom department. He loved the 626 even though it was never part of the custom line. The interview was supposed to cover the custom and competition guns, yet he spent most of the time cradling a 626 and extolling its virtues.

You can brush off the gold finish on any of the rear triggers and thus have two identical coin finished triggers. You could have the articulated trigger gold plated, but I do not know how the plating would affect the free movement of the articulated trigger. It is interesting that as a spare the 626 articulate trigger costs a few dollars when a custom articulated trigger can cost thousands.

There are plenty of used 626, 625 and 624s out there to satisfy the low demand for SXSs. Few people understand how they differ from the basic Anson-Deeley action, and this keeps the prices reasonable. Their basic engineering quality makes them easily repairable, they are virtually everlasting unless bitten by rust. Parts are available, including stocks, at least here in Europe. Beretta used to make the stocking of spares mandatory for their dealers. Our local importer has a case full of 626 parts. The only 626 parts they ever sold were two hammers I bough to convert a 625 to an ejector.

Again, it was a great article, and you were correct in predicting back then that the prices would go up. I haven't seen a 626 with 28" barrels at any of the USA auction sites in a couple of years, and that one brought $2550. I'm sure it would be much higher now if anyone wanted to sell one.

I wish that I could buy a set of 30" barrels for mine, but I guess that will never happen.

coosa, did you ever get that DT conversion done? I was just cleaning my 626 & took a peek at this thread