Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon I Sporting 410 Bore 30" Shotgun

A 410 on a sporting frame is a specialist's gun, and the 686 Silver Pigeon I Sporting is one of the few built properly rather than scaled down as an afterthought. The 30 inch Steelium barrels use Beretta's Optimabore HP profile with a long double forcing cone, which is doing real work in a 410 where the payload is small and every pellet in the pattern counts. Beretta profiled the bore against lead, steel and high performance steel loads, so pattern quality does not fall apart when the shell changes.

Recoil is close to nothing, which is exactly why these guns get bought for skeet, for teaching new shooters, and for anyone who wants to shoot a full course without paying for it the next morning. The B-Fast stock adjusts for height, cast, drop and rotation, so the gun fits the shooter properly rather than approximately, and the Extralight pad and redesigned top lever round out a gun meant to be used hard. Walnut, an engraved silver receiver and blued vent rib barrels keep it looking like the Beretta over under it is. Hitting targets with a 410 is a challenge worth taking on.