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I am so glad to get the information here that there are 626 guns in Europe that have DT. That makes me think that somewhere in the world the parts that I need do exist. Am I wrong in assuming that a trigger assembly would not require all of the legal issues associated with importing a gun? It wouldn't be called a gun in the USA, but I don't know if that's the case in Europe. [/quote]




Expensive labor in USA makes SST to DT on inexpensive knockabout guns non-worthwhile project. Here is used 626 with DT in Florida.....
Bush ready Beretta ejector double....

It has carry wear plus some superficial oxidation form condensation on the barrels which means you can take into rainy bush and keep it in a barn w/o much worry. If chokes are opened up one can even use Winchester X-pert steel w/o much worry. That is good because we do not know what future regulation will bring upon us.


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Thanks for the information; I had already looked that gun over and even compared the pictures to my gun to see if I might be able to swap the triggers. It looked like the trigger guard was not gonna work, so I decided not to buy it. My gun is in much better shape than that one.

The single trigger would not be so bad if it was easier to operate the selector. I'm thinking of trying to fabricate some sort of extension for it to raise it up above the safety. I will have one barrel choked IC loaded with light steel loads for close shots at decoying ducks, and one barrel choked C for longer shots with tungsten loads. Moving the selector with gloves on is very difficult.

Thanks for the info. I looked at their online catalog and they show they have parts for a 625 with a single trigger, but didn't show anything with DT. I sent them an email anyway

Is it me being hypercritical ?
But what an amateur, farcical , video that is .
I would have thought they would have rehearsed it and it would have been a slick presentation, the re-assembly is far worse .

I actually had this conversion done a few years ago; parts are readily available, and where they are offshore, bringing them stateside is not an issue. My project (I also had the manual trigger converted to automatic) involved a favorite pet 626 I'd bought new at Beretta Gallery in 1996, so I didn't mind lavishing some money on it. Parts required are below, as well as sources; numbers correspond to Beretta's schematic:
Single trigger to double trigger:
35 Non-selective safety
64 DT spacer
65 DT connector/stock bolt block
66 DT screw
67 DT plate
68 DT screw
69 Left trigger
70 DT screw
71 DT articulated plate
72 Articulated trigger
73 DT trigger guard
76 DT pin
77 DT spring
78 DT pin
Manual safety to automatic safety:
38 Safety spring
39 Screw
88 Auto safety cartridge latch
89 Auto safety washer

The 626 has a reputation for reliability, but should replacement parts ever be needed, there are several good sources:

http://www.omps2.it/en/firearm-spare-par...-cal-ga-12.html

http://www.brignoliarmi.com/web_eng/shop2.asp?id=6&id_1=3

http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/ctgy/beretta-625-626-627-parts

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/Categories/Beretta-33152/Shotguns-35390/626-43018.htm?page=2

Many thanks, Jim! I will look into those parts, though a gunsmith on here has already told me he would do the job for me. It may be that he already knew about the availability of those parts, but I will discuss it with him soon. I am actually at the OK City airport now waiting to get home. We got a few quail and ducks, but the weather wasn't great and the hunt was kinda disappointing.

There were several times that I sure wished for DT on my gun. I'm just not good enough to switch barrels with the selector while the bird is in the air. But the gun worked just fine; my local guy fixed the issue with the inertial block.

What???? Disappointing as in no or hardly any birds?

coosa...if you come up a part or two short, let me know - I might have a spare. A few years ago, that parts list was $440, though no single source had everything I needed. If you email italy, the key to success is small words and short sentences. Aside from that its as simple as Amazon. Good Luck.

Yeah, very few birds of any kind. I got 4 quail and was the high man in our group of 5. I didn't get a mallard, but some of the other guys got a few. I did get a limit of ringnecks one morning.

Thanks again, Jim. I had already emailed the place in Italy, but they said they didn't have any 626 parts. They seemed to be in stock at a couple of your other links, but I haven't had a chance to really look. I still haven't gotten home. The power went out at the Atlanta airport and they sent our flight to Memphis and it isn't leaving until tomorrow. We rented a car and are driving. I already had my shift as the driver and decided to check the forum.

I am sitting in a hospital waiting room waiting for my wife to have a routine test, so I thought I would add an update to this thread from 4 years ago. I doubt that there are many people in the world interested in converting a Beretta 626 from single trigger to double trigger, but I will post my experience in case anyone runs across it in a search. There is not whole lot of information like this available, or at least I couldn't find it if it is.

After Jim Bode posted the excellent info above, I set about trying to get all of the parts together to do the job. I had to use all 4 of the companies that Jim linked above, but I thought I could buy everything he listed. I decided I should start with the parts that were only available in Italy, so I placed an order and paid with a CC. The next day I got an email from them saying that nearly all of the parts I had ordered were out of stock, even though their website said they had them. I cancelled the order and gave up on the idea.

Jim also sent me a copy of a 1997 article from Gun Digest where the writer said that he completely disassembled a 626 with nothing but a few screwdrivers and a punch. He explained that the 62x series was made for all the parts to be interchangeable from model to model. By the way, does anyone know if Jim is still around? I haven't seen a post from him in quite a while. Anyway, the article praised the 626 for it's high quality as a mass produced SXS, and lamented the fact that Beretta stopped producing them.

A couple of years ago, a DT 625 came up on GunBroker and I put in what I thought was a very low bid and wound up owning it. It's in decent shape, and the cost was not a lot more than the parts would have been for the DT assembly. It has a different style rib and different dimensions from the 626, plus it's choked a very tight F/M and I found i couldn't shoot it as well as my 626. I put it in the safe and seldom used it.

I got to go on a number of good dove hunts this past fall and used the 626 on all of them. I had several occasions when the inertial trigger failed to reset for the second shot. I never could determine what was causing the problem. It wasn't the problem that started this thread, and it was intermittent and unpredictable. It was aggravating enough that I came up with the idea of switching the triggers in the 2 guns.

I am purely an amateur as a gunsmith and I wasn't sure that this would be within my skill level, but the Gun Digest article gave me a little confidence that maybe I could do it. I started with the 625, and I only had to remove 3 or 4 screws to take out the trigger assembly and the safety. Since the barrel selector of the 626 is on the safety, I had to switch the safety's too.

The 626 was slightly more complicated, but it still was just a matter of removing screws and driving out the safety pin. It turned out, there was really nothing to the job and it could be done in 30 minutes by someone familiar with the process. The parts all interchanged perfectly, the safety's slide normally, and the trigger pulls are exactly the same.

The coin finished triggers don't look quite right in the 626 Onyx, but I never thought that the gold trigger looked right either. I have seen 625 models with the single gold trigger on auction sites, but I might have the only Onyx with coin triggers. I could have them gold plated if it bothered me, but it doesn't. I got to use it with the DT on our latest hunt, and enjoyed being able to select the barrel the way one should on a SXS.

I have told my family to make sure these 2 guns stay together after I am gone. I don't expect that to be a problem. Thanks for all the help here, and I hope someone will find this info useful.

Interesting story, Coosa. Glad it turned out so well for you. May your misses be forgotten and your great shots be remembered.

And, like you, I haven't heard anything from Jim for quite some time. Hope he, and your wife, are well.

SRH