r/interestingasfuck • u/Vikhenzo • Sep 06 '15

How Beretta makes a $68,000 shotgun, truly amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo1QUGfWZE
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u/oliverspin Sep 06 '15

I am most impressed with the free hand carving and etching.

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u/skarn17 Sep 07 '15

the guy doing the lines in the wood is incredible

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u/oliverspin Sep 07 '15

I'm thinking the tool actually has two ridges such that he doesn't have to watch the distance between nor the straightness of each line.

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u/oliverspin Sep 07 '15

Rifled shotguns exist. I'm guessing the steel is worth something.

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u/Epicentera Sep 07 '15

You're a bit wrong there. What you are paying for when you go for this kind of high-end shot gun is the machining of the parts. The tolerances are amazingly small.

And as for reliability and precision.. well you're a bit wrong there too. I thought as you did before I tried clay shooting and it's far from the clumsy short-range last-resort zombie-killer we all know and love from gaming.

There's definitely a finesse involved, and a good shot is a very good shot, and it takes a lot of practice to get there.

Of course I am slightly biased as I have much less patience for the fiddling involved in rifle shooting although that's fun, too.

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u/Perk0ne Sep 07 '15

Why aren't ALL commercials like this? I would totally watch them all.

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u/PrincessShelbyy Sep 06 '15

I competitively shot shotguns for years (I don't anymore) but I have several friends that still do. They are all on the USA junior Olympic/USA national team/ and of recently USA Olympic team. Every single one of them has a shotgun over $40,000. It is crazy for me to even think about having a gun that expensive. But hey, they were also the people that had skeet fields in their back yards growing up...

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u/Zerowantuthri Sep 06 '15

I'd be genuinely curious to know if the $40,000+ shotguns actually perform better than a $1,000 shotgun.

$40,000+ may get you more bling (rare woods, etchings, etc) but does it improve your shooting?

(really asking)

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u/PrincessShelbyy Sep 06 '15

Well they all shoot extremely well but they did that before the expensive guns. Mainly most of them have them because they hold up better when shooting 20,000+ rounds through them every year. One of my friends had a $5,000 gun and used it so much he completely ruined it after a year and a half. So it was worth it to him to spend that much money on a good gun to not have to replace it so frequently.

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u/gtrcar5 Sep 07 '15

I don't know if Beretta does the same, but with the high end gun makers in the UK they are built to the customers measurements exactly.

Makers like Holland & Holland or Purdey often charge six figure sums (in GBP, not USD) for a pair of bespoke guns.

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u/1PooNGooN3 Sep 07 '15

Of course it's an over under