MSRP of the 1301 tactical is $1720.00 or $1760.00 with the pistol grip.

If anyone knows anyone selling them at a good price please post it or hit my email in my profile.

Best price I can find on a plain 1301 tactical w/ 5 round mag tube (J131C11N) is $1050. These are no longer catalogued but available in stock at quite a few places. Gunbroker Dealers have them listed at $1350. It’s a definite option. The $450 up charge for the Mesa Tac stock and the one piece 7 rd mag tube costs about $125 more than doing it yourself. If your desire is to change the stock tactical configuration, then building from the base would be more cost effective.

Not sure where you are located, but I’m sure we have members that would be happy to let you test drive.

Take note of the version you're looking at, original ones go cheaper than the updated version.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
MSRP of the 1301 tactical is $1720.00 or $1760.00 with the pistol grip.

If anyone knows anyone selling them at a good price please post it or hit my email in my profile.

I don’t see an email in your profile. Send me an email and I will point you in the direction of better online pricing.

I'll speak up for the LTT Tactical. I love mine and thought it was fantastic. You get the Magpul stock, Zhukov fore-end, adaptors, Nordic extension, sidesaddle installed and no bullcrap about it. I got a CROM which I personally would not do again but it's also available installed (or not).

I would not hesitate to do it again for the $1725 they are charging. There is no way that you could get any reasonable M4 for that.

LTT 1301

I am bidding on one of these LTT on Gun broker.

If that doesn't work I may go direct.

I have a 940. Had it for almost a year. Put a holosun on it.
Don't shoot it alot. Maybe 500 rounds total in it. High brass 8's and 4buck, some slugs.
Doing everything I need.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
I am bidding on one of these LTT on Gun broker.

If that doesn't work I may go direct.

I will say I have dealt with them direct on a couple of occasions and they are the dream of great customer service FWIW.

I picked up the all weather version of the 1301 last year for $1399 I think? I’ve since added the Aridus forearm and mag tube extension. I bought the adapter for the Magpul stock but have not installed it yet. Problem 500 rounds or so of mixed ammo, and not a single hiccup. I’m very happy with it.

I’d go with an M2 or Beretta.

I put a Beretta 1301 on hold at the LGS yesterday. They were selling it for 1299 as used never fired. The new ones there were almost $1700.

I could not find a better price out the door counting shipping and fees.


They will hold it until the end of business the next day. It had been on their website for 3 weeks.

When I went to pick it up today, two other people asked to buy it while I was doing the paperwork to buy it.

The place was a zoo, this is a small but high volume shop.

Thanks to everyone for their help and opinions.

The gun store was out of 12ga slugs that I need for my range. They expect some in soon.

I will try it out next weekend.

"You can't pay too much, just too soon."

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I put a Beretta 1301 on hold at the LGS yesterday. They were selling it for 1299 as used never fired. The new ones there were almost $1700.

Beretta has been raising prices on selective products quite a lot over the past couple of years. Their O/U Silver Pigeons have been some of the most severely impacted; SP1 examples from 2018 regularly sold for around $1800 while today the same model is now encroaching on $2500.

When we were last selling the 1301 Tactical Pistol Grip earlier this year prior to this state's ban on the sale of pistol-gripped SA shotguns, we were at that time asking just over $1600. For the standard stock version which we can still legally sell we ask around $1350-$1400. The days of the old $900 price sailed off into history in what seems an eternity ago, because I don't remember any Gen 2 1301Ts ever selling at that price point, at least to the civilian market.

BTW according to our Beretta rep the next iteration of the 1301 Tactical is about to present another makeover, which will probably include elements and features introduced on the A300 Patrol. This newest version is supposedly due Real Soon Now, either next month or December. But given how deliveries from Beretta S.p.A. has been over the last few years it wouldn't surprise me if the timetable that I was quoted back in summer winds up being somewhat optimistic, quantities end up being limited, or a bit of both wind up occurring.

Not to side track this great thread discussion, I believe this is the right place to ask this question.

For home defense shotguns what do people prefer to have loaded in their shotguns - Slugs, Buckshot (0,00,000, etc.) or a combination of the two?

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Originally posted by sigarmsp226:
Not to side track this great thread discussion, I believe this is the right place to ask this question.

For home defense shotguns what do people prefer to have loaded in their shotguns - Slugs, Buckshot (0,00,000, etc.) or a combination of the two?

I may hold an unpopular opinions but for HD ranges 10-12', just about anything is lethal out of a shotgun. This doesn't mean birdshot is the BEST option, but is AN option.

Personally I have mine loaded with 00 buck. But indoors at those distances I'd feel okay with damn near any round.

My answer is "it depends". If I say shoot XYZ, it doesn't matter much if your gun shoots (patterns) it poorly. Best to buy a box of each and try them all.

It might not be a bad idea to have some slugs handy, but they wouldn't be what I'd primarily keep in it. While they're devastating, it kind of defeats the purpose of having a shotgun.


One of the things that disappoints me about my M4 is no matter what choke I try, I'm underwhelmed with how it patterns at most distances. And in ways that don't make any sense. Some people suggest #4 buck, which I'm not really a fan of past right up close. But friday I shot some in my M4 at 20 & 25 yards. It shot just okay, which makes ZERO sense, because I was using the same exact choke, an extended, ported "coyote choke" (really just something in the Mod region) that I've shot similar groups with in another Mobil choked Benelli that patterned just as well at nearly twice that distance? That makes little sense.

And I'm sure there are people thinking 'That close it doesn't matter", which did once too, until I found out my load of choice (which also sounded like a good idea but wasn't) was shooting a larger than hula-hoop sized pattern at 7 yards.

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And I'm sure there are people thinking 'That close it doesn't matter", which did once too, until I found out my load of choice (which also sounded like a good idea but wasn't) was shooting a larger than hula-hoop sized pattern at 7 yards.

My M4 shoots basketball groups with cheaper Remington loads with IC choke at 15 yards. With the Federal flight control 8 pellet I’m getting baseball sized groups at 15 yards. The 9 pellet give me 1 to 2 pellets that fly a few inches out of the center pattern. I’m sure I could get a tighter pattern out of the cheaper practice rounds with a tighter choke.

Benelli M2 is a better shotgun than the M4.

M2 field with the comfortech stock, Nordic Components extension tube and nut, and a clamp to secure the tube to the barrel for hard use.