Description
The Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol in 20 gauge, part number J32CG21, is the gray receiver version of Beretta’s small bore defensive semi-automatic. The barrel is 19.10 inches, capacity is seven plus one, the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol has a gray receiver Picatinny shotgun layout, with the rail on the aluminum receiver, and the stock is fixed synthetic. A 20 gauge defensive shotgun is an underrated thing. Recoil is meaningfully lower than a 12, the gun is lighter to hold up and swing in a hallway, and inside a house the gap in terminal effect between the two gauges is far smaller than the numbers on paper suggest.
The only difference from its black stablemate is the receiver finish. Everything else is identical.
Why a 20 gauge defensive shotgun 7+1 makes sense
Recoil is the reason most people shoot a defensive shotgun badly. A 20 gauge cuts it substantially, and a shooter who can actually run the gun beats one who flinches at every round.
At the distances inside a house, a 20 gauge buckshot load puts enough pellets on target to do the job. The gap between gauges opens up at range, not in a hallway.
The gun is lighter and shorter in the hand, which matters for a smaller framed shooter or anyone who will be holding it up while doing something else.
It is also a gun the rest of the household is more likely to be able to shoot, which is worth more than a theoretical pattern advantage.
What the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol brings
The gas action bleeds off part of the shot’s energy to work the bolt, and what it bleeds off does not reach your shoulder. On an already mild 20 gauge that leaves very little.
The receiver rail takes a red dot without a gunsmith, which suits a defensive gun better than a bead does.
Seven plus one means the magazine tube runs nearly to the muzzle, so the gun is as compact as that capacity allows.
Nineteen point one inches of barrel is handy indoors and well clear of the federal minimum, so no special paperwork applies.
Beretta J32CG21 specifications
- Model: Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol, part number J32CG21
- Gauge: 20
- Chamber: 3 inches
- Capacity: 7+1 rounds
- Barrel length: 19.10 inches
- Receiver: gray aluminum with Picatinny rail (Beretta J32CG21)
- Stock: fixed synthetic
- Action: semi-automatic, gas operated
Shotshell dimensions and pressures are standardized by SAAMI, and the 3 inch chamber accepts both 2 3/4 and 3 inch twenty gauge shells. Because the barrel is 19.10 inches and the stock is fixed, this is an ordinary shotgun under federal law and needs no special paperwork. Pattern whichever defensive load you intend to keep in the gun at the distances inside your own home; 20 gauge buckshot varies more between makers than 12 gauge does, so this matters more here than usual. For practice Federal Top Gun 7/8 ounce is the inexpensive load.
The black receiver version of this same gun is the 20 gauge Patrol in black, the 12 gauge Patrols are the black and gray builds, and the camouflaged 12 gauge guns are the Multicam Black and Frog Skin versions. Every long gun we sell ships to a licensed FFL for transfer.
Why a gray receiver Picatinny shotgun is worth considering
- A 20 gauge, which most shooters run better than a 12 under pressure.
- Seven plus one on a 19.10 inch barrel.
- A gas action, which takes what little sting a 20 gauge has out of it.
- A receiver rail for a red dot, fitted at the factory.
- A gray receiver, which tells it apart at a glance from a black stablemate in the same house.
Who the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol suits
This suits a household where more than one person might have to pick the gun up, a smaller framed shooter, or anyone who has decided that hitting with a 20 beats missing with a 12. A shooter who wants maximum pattern density at distance should buy the 12 gauge. Every long gun we sell ships to a licensed FFL for transfer.
Why the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol in 20 gauge, and what it costs you
A 20 gauge defensive shotgun 7+1 like this one throws fewer pellets than a 12 and recoils a great deal less. For a shotgun that may be used by more than one person in a household, or by someone who will not put in the practice a 12 gauge demands, that trade is usually worth making. A hit with 20 gauge buckshot beats a miss with 12 every time. Sterling 20 gauge buckshot is the volume load here and we hold over a thousand boxes.
For slugs, Brenneke KO 20 gauge is stocked nine hundred deep and Brenneke Tactical Home Defense is the purpose-built load. For clays or birds, Federal Top Gun 7.5 shot and Browning BXD Upland both run through the same gun.
A 19.1 inch gas operated shotgun and the practice question
The Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol is gas operated, which bleeds off some of the recoil impulse before it reaches your shoulder. Combined with 20 gauge the result is a defensive shotgun that is genuinely comfortable to shoot a hundred rounds through in an afternoon, and that matters more than any specification on the page. A shotgun you will practice with is worth more than a shotgun you will not.
The rest of the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol line
The 20 gauge in black is the same Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol in a plainer finish, and the Tiger Stripe is the same gun in a louder one. All three Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol variants share the 19.1 inch barrel, the Picatinny rail and the 7+1 capacity.
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