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Beretta has redesigned the 1301 with a couple improvements, including moving the SN. Wheelsonly didn't move it himself.

I *think* I used a Torx wrench that came with a Primary Arms RDS

Right at the 3 minute mark is where he's removed the piece that needs polishing. Getting the pin out that the mag catch pivots on is awkward, but it can be done! Just a little polish on the face of the catch is all it took to cure mine.

"Affordable" and the NFA game are mutually exclusive. Suppressors are truly in the buy once-cry once category as they are, for all intents and purposes, a lifetime purchase. The $200 you might save on an affordable one, amortized over a lifetime of use is a really small percentage. I recently picked up an AAC 762-SD. I've only run about 50 rounds through it so far, so I'm not ready to make a recommendation on it. I will say that I was surprised by the weight it adds. I have it on a 10.5" .300BLK SBR. As mentioned above, you really need a separate can for .22LR use because of the leading. A center fire can will be sealed most likely and not able to get the lead out from .22lr. I have the SilencerCo Specter II and love it. Very easy to maintain/clean, light and very very quiet.

BINGO! 15 minutes with a stone and bingo bango it's working! Thanks!

Does anyone have a video or step-by-step of how to get that piece out? I'm sure I can figure it out, but I'd rather watch someone else first if that's an option. EDIT: Figured it out

awesome! thank you!

The real question is....did it work? Are you now able to load the way it's intended to work?

Great minds think alike....I had that same thought yesterday. I removed the Nordic extension and replaced with the factory spring and magazine cap. No luck, same issue.Problem stays the same with a single shell in the tube or a full tube. I field stripped mine last night and looked everything over and have pretty good idea how its supposed to work. Again mine works fine so I can't say definitively why some folks are having problems. But... indulge me and try something out, field strip the gun and leave the trigger group in place, push the carrier stop (the small square silver button at the back of the lifter), this should release the lifter allowing it to pop up. Now try and push down on the lifter, it should move freely for about a 1/16" or so, only being stopped by the cartridge latch. Now, ignore the lifter and push on the bolt release and make sure it moves freely. If neither of these conditions exist, I think thats where the problem lies, a clearance issue. You could send it back to Beretta, of fix it yourself by adding a little clearance and polishing the parts. Thanks for the effort! I'm heading out on a biz trip and won't get to it for a couple weeks. I'll try this at the first opportunity.

As an aside....it's more than a little irritating to sell off the $550 Mossberg 930 because of loading issues, only to replace it with a $1,000 Beretta with loading issues.

Great minds think alike....I had that same thought yesterday. I removed the Nordic extension and replaced with the factory spring and magazine cap. No luck, same issue.Problem stays the same with a single shell in the tube or a full tube.

This is what I've done, and it doesn't work. The only 'modification' I've done to the gun was to reverse the safety for left handed use.

Any ideas on how to fix that don't involve shipping it out for a month?

I have a brand new Beretta 1301 Competition. I ran ~50 shells through it (just 7.5 shot, Estate Target loads) before a local 3 Gun match yesterday. I'm having trouble with loading that first shell from the mag tube. For the match, we pre-load the tubes in a staging area then chamber when we get to the line. I could not get that first shell to load onto the carrier so I could rack it in. I'd hit the little button and nothing would happen. Well, maybe once out of a dozen tries did the shell. If I held the bolt open and forced a shell onto the carrier through the ejection port it would cycle fine through the stage. Being that this gun is new to me, I don't know if I'm doing something out of sequence or if there's a defect. The manual isn't helping. I've tried these steps in various combinations: - empty chamber, rack it, pull trigger, safety engaged, fill tube, hit the button (not the bolt release). does anyone have the definitive answer to what series of steps are involved making the Beretta happy? Thanks!

Ever have one of THOSE days?