Semi-automatic hunting shotguns: Beretta presents the new A300 Outlander, a 12-gauge semi-automatic with extraordinary mechanical characteristics and essential and linear aesthetics.
The new A300 Outlander semi-automatic shotgun marks a new course for Beretta from a production point of view: the new processes and machinery that are used to create this new semi-automatic, have allowed the company to standardize each production phase, with significant implications on the final price of the product.
In fact, the A300 Outlander is placed in a price range that is more than accessible for novice hunters and very competitive on the market: around 1000 euros.
This price astonished everyone a bit, since we are talking about a Beretta semiautomatic which, while retaining all those technical characteristics of precision and reliability, is offered at a very economical price. In times of crisis and uncertainty, Beretta has decided to innovate and invest in new production processes, which reduce costs and improve the quality of every single component of the A300.
In particular, Beretta has chosen to reduce the number of the latter, looking for the essentials for a semi-automatic with excellent results.
Let's start with the Outlander barrels, which are vertically integrated into the Beretta house, in order to keep this production process within the company. The barrels are subjected to the cold hammering process that starts from the raw material: the steel of the A300 and all smooth-bore rifles of the Beretta, has high characteristics in terms of gun safety, being able to fire cartridges with weights from 24 grams (sports) to 64 grams (extreme for hunting). The barrels are obtained through the hammering process, with which they are cold deformed through four hammers that act in an orthogonal direction to the axis of the barrel. With this process two advantages are obtained: high precision with millesimal tolerances and an unparalleled internal finish.
After hammering, the barrels of the A300 Outlander are processed in other machines to finish this first phase of production. We arrive at the processing of the core which is totally chromed to ensure maximum durability and resistance to corrosion and wear, with the aim also of increasing the speed of the outgoing shot. The outside of the barrel, on the other hand, is burnished in black. The barrels have all the technological content of the Beretta. Some aesthetic features have been eliminated, such as the arabesque on the rib to lower the final price of the shotgun. A necessary sacrifice, but one that the hunter will understand. The Beretta Mobilchoke internal chokes, with elongated cone, have an internal profile specifically designed to reduce friction, optimize the concentration and distribution of the shot pattern. They are made of high-strength steel, which in turn has undergone the final nickel plating treatment. Beretta Mobilchoke chokes offer significant corrosion protection and resistance to the use of steel shot over time.
As far as the casing is concerned, it should be emphasized that the latter is produced inside the beretta, a further guarantee of reliability under the sign of made in Italy. Its creation begins with an ergal extrusion (aluminum alloy) which is processed in a mcm (automatic) plant. The production step is only one and once the machining is completed, the casing is subjected to a laser surface heat treatment and nodic oxidation, with the aim of increasing and guaranteeing resistance to corrosion. The assembly of the breech box is completely done by hand, as it consists of a stock pull tube, the magazine and the magazine tube cap. The new semi-automatic from Casa Beretta has a limited tank capacity, in compliance with the hunting regulations in force in many countries, of 2 shots, through the insertion of a reducer. The latter allows the use of the rifle to no more than three shots: two in the magazine, one in the chamber. Beretta directly supplies the A300 Outlander of this device during construction and assembly.
The A300 installs a gas intake system patented by Beretta, with self-cleaning cylinder and piston and equipped with a compensating valve, also self-cleaning, which allows the excess pressure caused by the strongest cartridges to be automatically discharged outside. The gas system of the A300 Outlander semi-automatic has been revisited and optimized to guarantee less gas dispersion. Being self-cleaning, this system reduces the maintenance and effort to which the operating organs are subjected, when very powerful loads are used, obtaining a greater longevity of the weapon. The choice and design of this system offers constant cleaning over time of shot residues inside the cylinder, increasing the efficiency of the firearm and reducing maintenance. The elastic sealing band, having a scraping surface, also participates in cleaning. We now describe the last part of the rifle, namely the stock. A technopolymer plate was chosen for the interposition between stock and breech box, which allows you to vary the fold and the deflection of the stock without special interventions, but simply by varying the mounting position of this plate and the corresponding steel plate. stainless steel inside the stock. The A300 Outlander also provides the possibility of obtaining additional lean values by replacing the pair of plates with the set supplied.
Finally, the polymer hand guard is made more pleasant thanks to the innovative texture. The semi-square profile facilitates finger rest, while the rounded profiles and the absence of edges favor a quick and safe trigger grip. The use of the technopolymer guarantees both the preservation of the color of the parts particularly subject to rubbing, and a better sensation to the touch in harsh climates. The eye of the handguard has been increased to allow the use of the trigger even with gloves.
The A300 Outlander is a concentrate of technology connected to the manual skills of Italian artisans, who with their work always maintain high and competitive quality standards in the world. This new semi-automatic from Casa Beretta contributes to maintaining the competitiveness of Made in Italy in the world, thanks to investments aimed at lowering production costs, in a very particular moment from an economic point of view like the one we are experiencing in our country.