Description
The Beretta 686 Sporting in 12 gauge, part number J686S1230BF, is the thirty inch clays 686 with Beretta’s B-Fast adjustable comb fitted from the factory. Barrels are blued with a vent rib, chambers are 3 inches, and the receiver is steel with silver engraving. Thirty inches is the length most sporting clays shooters settle on. It carries enough weight forward to keep a swing moving through a crosser without the start up delay of a 32, and it still handles a fast close pair without feeling like a barge.
The top rib is the wider 10 by 6 millimetre tapered sporting profile, the stock is European walnut, five flush Optima-Choke HP tubes ship in the case, and the trigger is the single selective inertia unit.
Thirty inches with the comb solved
Comb height decides where your eye sits relative to the rib, and your eye is the rear sight on a shotgun. If the comb is wrong the gun shoots high or low regardless of how well you move it.
B-Fast lets you set that height precisely and lock it, so the sight picture repeats on every mount rather than being close most of the time.
On a fixed stock you either fit it or you shim, pad and hope. On this one you set it on a pattern board once and write the number down.
Thirty inch barrels keep the gun versatile. It is long enough for the crossers and short enough for the rabbits, which is why it outsells both the 28 and the 32.
What the Beretta 686 Sporting brings to the station
The 10 by 6 tapered rib gives a wider, flatter sighting plane than the field rib, which makes the picture easier to repeat across a round.
The low profile boxlock, conical locking lugs and replaceable shoulders are what keep 680 series actions tight through decades of heavy round counts.
A steel receiver rather than alloy, which costs a few ounces and buys a service life measured in decades.
Five flush Optima-Choke HP tubes mean constriction changes between stations without carrying a wrench and a box of extended tubes.
Specifications
- Model: Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon I Sporting, part number J686S1230BF
- Gauge: 12
- Chamber: 3 inches
- Barrel length: 30 inches, blued with vent rib
- Top rib: 10 by 6 millimetre tapered sporting rib
- Action: over and under boxlock
- Receiver: steel, silver engraved
- Chokes: five flush Optima-Choke HP tubes
- Stock: European walnut with B-Fast adjustable comb
- Recoil pad: Extralight
- Trigger: single selective inertia
- Left handed: no
Shotshell dimensions and pressures are standardized by SAAMI, and the 3 inch chambers accept 2 3/4 and 3 inch shells, though clays shooting is 2 3/4 inch work. Standard 1 1/8 ounce target loads are the practice shell, and Browning BXD Upland in 5 shot covers the days you take it hunting. Set the comb on a pattern board before your first round and do not dry fire the gun without snap caps.
Shooters who fit a standard stock can save the money on the 30 inch fixed comb build, the 32 inch B-Fast adds length for long crossers, smaller framed shooters should look at the Vittoria build, and left handed shooters should compare the left hand version.
Why it is worth considering
- A B-Fast adjustable comb from the factory, so the sight picture repeats on every mount.
- Thirty inch barrels, the most versatile length in the sporting line.
- A 10 by 6 tapered sporting rib, wider and flatter than the field rib.
- Five flush chokes in the case, so the gun covers more than one presentation out of the box.
- The 680 series boxlock, an action that stays tight through heavy round counts.
Who it suits
This suits a sporting clays or skeet shooter who wants one gun set up properly and does not want to spend the first season guessing at fit. Anyone who already mounts a standard 686 comfortably can save the money on the fixed comb build, and a field hunter will be happier with one of the lighter Silver Pigeon guns. Every long gun we sell ships to a licensed FFL for transfer.
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