Description
The Beretta 686 Sporting in 12 gauge, part number J686S1232BF, is the configuration most serious clays shooters end up asking for: the longest barrels Beretta offers on the gun, and a stock you can fit to yourself. Barrels are 32 inches, blued with a vent rib, chambers are 3 inches, and the receiver is steel with silver engraving.
The top rib is the wider 10 by 6 millimetre tapered sporting profile, the barrels are joined by a vented middle rib that sheds heat over a long round, and the walnut stock carries Beretta’s B-Fast adjustable comb. Five flush Optima-Choke HP tubes ship in the case, the pad is the Extralight, and the trigger is the single selective inertia unit.
Long barrels and an adjustable comb solve different problems
Thirty two inches puts weight further from the hands, and that inertia is what keeps a swing moving through a long crosser instead of decelerating as the trigger breaks.
The adjustable comb solves the other half. Comb height decides where your eye sits relative to the rib, and your eye is the rear sight on a shotgun. Get it wrong and the gun shoots high or low no matter how well you swing.
Together they cover the two things that actually cost targets: a swing that stops, and a sight picture that changes from mount to mount.
Set the comb on a pattern board, write down the position, and leave it. The adjustment exists to be got right once, not fiddled with between stations.
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 fifty targets.
The vented middle rib is functional rather than decorative. Hot barrels throw mirage, and mirage between you and the target is the last thing you want on stand forty.
The low profile boxlock, conical locking lugs and replaceable shoulders are what keep 680 series actions tight through decades of heavy round counts.
Five flush Optima-Choke HP tubes mean you can change constriction between stations without carrying a wrench and a box of extended tubes.
Specifications
- Model: Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon I Sporting, part number J686S1232BF
- Gauge: 12
- Chamber: 3 inches
- Barrel length: 32 inches, blued with vent rib and vented middle 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: Grade 2 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, do not dry fire it without snap caps, and let the barrels cool in warm weather.
Shooters who fit a standard stock can save the money on the 32 inch fixed comb build, the 30 inch is handier on close presentations, left handed shooters should look at the left hand build, and the small bores are here in 20 gauge and 28 gauge.
Why it is worth considering
- Thirty two inch barrels, the length that keeps a swing honest on long crossers.
- A B-Fast adjustable comb, so the sight picture repeats on every mount.
- A 10 by 6 tapered sporting rib, wider and flatter than the field rib.
- A vented middle rib, so heat mirage does not blur the picture late in a round.
- The 680 series boxlock, an action that stays tight through heavy round counts.
Who it suits
This suits a sporting clays or trap shooter who is past experimenting and wants the gun set up properly for the long haul. It is more gun than a casual shooter needs, and anyone who mostly sees close, fast presentations will prefer the 30 inch. Every long gun we sell ships to a licensed FFL for transfer.
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