Originally Posted by
ECVMatt
Before my weekend shooting trip got interrupted by all this nonsense in the cities, my friends and I took our pistols, rifles, and shoties out to the desert for a relaxing weekend of shooting. My two friends just picked up their Agency m2's and I brought my 1301 that I have written about here before. I have some nice additions from Aridus Industries to enhance the Beretta a bit. We were shooting mostly steel and other random targets. We ended up shooting about 150 rounds a piece through the shotguns. Not a lot of shooting, but enough to think about what worked and what didn't.
First of all the Agency's are beautiful. They will be the first to tell you that they are simply beadazzling firearms, but they do a nice job. I did not like the standard Agency stippling. It is the same stippling they put on their handguns and it chewed my hand up. The Agency's also had a Trijicon RMR with I felt like had a better FOV than my Aimpoint but it collected debris easier than the Aimpoint and at one point had to wiped clean to be useable. Other than that it functioned 100% with light target loads and was a joy to shoot. It is a very smooth shooting gun.
My Beretta ran like a champ and for me was more comfortable to shoot. The Magpul stock fits me better and the it did not have the Agency cheese grader stippling. I did switch out the Haught Mod with a full ghost ring. I could never get used to the Haught Mod sight and it slowed me down in comparison to the regular ghost ring. I could shoot both shotguns with equal speed. I did not feel that the comfort tech stock made that big of a difference in recoil.
In the end, I still prefer my 1301. It fits me better, shoots just as smooth as the M2, and has been 100% with every kind of load I have put through it.
Now if this nonsense will end soon we can go finish up our trip and get some more rounds through the M2's. I don't think it will change my mind though.