Talking to my local gum shop today, he refuses to sell the Berika and other straight pull 12g new to market shotguns. Reckons they are having all kinds of problems, people bringing them in to him asking for help, but says its cost him a lot of sales. He sells the Adler and Dickinsons and has had no issues. The young fellas go nuts over the Berika10 round mag on paper, but it constantly hangs up in practice.
They need to make one that brings the line of the stock up in line with the bore, it would make it a heap more shootable. This is still the main thing that the Berika has over all the others.
Not only does it look much better but it makes for a better handling gun, with recoil coming straight back into the shoulder with much less muzzle jump than these more traditional shapes.
Having shot @juststarting’s Adler yesterday I have to say that I was very impressed with the fit n finish and overall performance especially for the price.
I still really like the look of the berika, I need to get my hands on one before I decide, but it’ll have to be pretty good to justify the almost double the price.
I’m quite torn, Adler works great and looks cool (this is a toy not a tool so looks count) but the berika looks cooler and has 10 rd mags available.
I really font know which way to go?
Mate, it’s pretty obvious you want a Berika. Don’t second guess yourself and don’t settle. Get what you want, there’s no reason or logic to taste. You want what you want, so get that, or every time you handle Adler, you’ll wish it was something else. Go with Berika.
I think JS is right I like the Berika more, might order one and then get it ceracoted Greens green, then get some triangle stickers made along with Sam Lee and shoedicks autographs to put on it!
Sorry for the delay in coms mate, we were busy testing spring pressures, and running as many cycles as we could. But I’m happy to announce that mid next week I will post these kits up in the sale section