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I am new to semi auto shotguns and have experience with O/U's and pumps. I recently purchased an A300 based on reviews largely and intend to use for clay sports and hunting. I took it home and cleaned it, probably not perfect (in full disclosure) but what I thought was good by following the owner’s manual. I did not remove the trigger group.
Went today to shoot it for the first time at 5 stand. I shot Sellier & Bellot 2 3/4, 1 1/8, 7 1/2, brass. This was all I could find, everywhere in my county was sold out. I fired 30 shells in first round of 5 stand. Zero ejected. On all of them I had to pull hard on the bolt about 3-5 times to get it to open and extract the spent shell. I was loading 2 shells at a time. After the first 2 stations I only loaded 1 shell at a time.
I was frustrated. There was a very nice gentleman shooting there who went above and beyond helping me, he gave me different shells to try (Winchester) and had me go buy some oil (i had none on me) and we oiled and re-assembled everything very thoroughly (except trigger group) and went to try another round. He owns a 3901 among other high end O/U’s and seemed very knowledgeable and agreed i should be good now and that perhaps i cleaned it poorly when i first got it. I won’t argue that.
Second round of 5 stand. ~30 shots fired and I only had one eject, even with his shells. Otherwise exact same issue, had to pull multiple times on bolt to open so I could pull out shell by hand.
I spoke to pro shop at range and several other folks there and all agreed that was not usual behavior. The gentleman that was helping me said it seemed to have trouble “extracting” and was highly unusual.
I called the place where I bought it brand new last week and they said, sorry but I’d have to deal with Beretta directly.
Now typically I’d be very upset, and I am, but I am trying to be reasonable here. Do I just call Beretta on Monday and hope they have good customer service and just make this right at no further cost to me?
I thought this would be a good gun for my needs and I know some jams on a new gun is expected but 1 ejection (and it did not chamber 2nd shot) out of 60 shots regardless of shell specifics seems very wrong to me.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts and thanks.
Went today to shoot it for the first time at 5 stand. I shot Sellier & Bellot 2 3/4, 1 1/8, 7 1/2, brass. This was all I could find, everywhere in my county was sold out. I fired 30 shells in first round of 5 stand. Zero ejected. On all of them I had to pull hard on the bolt about 3-5 times to get it to open and extract the spent shell. I was loading 2 shells at a time. After the first 2 stations I only loaded 1 shell at a time.
I was frustrated. There was a very nice gentleman shooting there who went above and beyond helping me, he gave me different shells to try (Winchester) and had me go buy some oil (i had none on me) and we oiled and re-assembled everything very thoroughly (except trigger group) and went to try another round. He owns a 3901 among other high end O/U’s and seemed very knowledgeable and agreed i should be good now and that perhaps i cleaned it poorly when i first got it. I won’t argue that.
Second round of 5 stand. ~30 shots fired and I only had one eject, even with his shells. Otherwise exact same issue, had to pull multiple times on bolt to open so I could pull out shell by hand.
I spoke to pro shop at range and several other folks there and all agreed that was not usual behavior. The gentleman that was helping me said it seemed to have trouble “extracting” and was highly unusual.
I called the place where I bought it brand new last week and they said, sorry but I’d have to deal with Beretta directly.
Now typically I’d be very upset, and I am, but I am trying to be reasonable here. Do I just call Beretta on Monday and hope they have good customer service and just make this right at no further cost to me?
I thought this would be a good gun for my needs and I know some jams on a new gun is expected but 1 ejection (and it did not chamber 2nd shot) out of 60 shots regardless of shell specifics seems very wrong to me.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts and thanks.
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