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Now that Beretta has been selling this simulated wood grain type stock for several years does anyone know how it's being received in the market? I would have though this would have flopped immediately, but I see new models are coming out sporting the X-trawood. Has anyone handled this faux walnut. If scratched will it crinkle up like the bellows of an accordion?
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I watched a program about the process although I can't remember what show. I have to say that I was impressed at how good it looked on TV but I have never seem one up close. It is suposed to be tough stuff but if you did scratch it deeply it would show th base wood underneath. It is not supposed to peel off so they said. It is a very interseting process and no two are alike.
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It was on a Shotgun Journal show. I TIVo'd it and have watched it a couple times, although it's a bad recording because of "tileing" from the satellite. I dont think I would want one of these. It appears to me that a good eye could spot an x-trawood stock.
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I have seen a few and did not like it. It looks mostly like a decal and you can see the real(straight) wood through the clear areas. They also usually put the seam along the comb, where it's most obvious. I saw the program too, and think it was on Shotgun Journal. I have heard the factory will re-do it for $200 or so. Fake is still fake, whether it's on a gunstock or some bimbo's chest. JL
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I have to agree, my buddy has a Beretta Ultralight with the X-Tra wood, and honest to god is it ugly. It reminds me of the stuff my grandmother used to line her cupboards with. I bought a Whitewing last week as a field knock about and I tell you for all its worth it was the biggest piece of SH@T that I have ever seen. The wood to metal fit was horrible, the wood (MDF maybe) looked terrible, and the recoild pad looks like it was fitted by a blind guy. I realize it was just a field gun, but for $1600 CDN it should have been a bit better. I owned it for roughly four minutes and twenty six seconds before I called the gunshop I bought it at and told them that the gun was being shipped back. I ended up buying that afternoon a used American Arms (Stefano Fausti) 28GA O/U that looked ten times better, shouldered better, had wood that looked like wood, not panneling you have in your basement, and wass all in all a better gun for $600 CDN.
In my humble oppinion, unless you are spending $3000 or more don't even look Beretta's way. I have Two Marocchi's, a Contrast, and a Conquista that at roughly $2000 and $2500 respectivly are ten times the guns any five grand plus Beretta is.
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What bugs me most about it is not the way it looks, but the way it feels. They seem to do the checkering strangely, and you can just feel the plastic (at least on the Onyx Pro model). I'm not going to put somebody down for buying it, though. It looks good from a distance, and given the choice between that and a camo finish on a gun, I'm not sure I'd take the camo. Everybody likes real wood better, but that might not be an option on field guns someday - Remington is doing it now, too...
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"What goes around comes around", this projecting a photograph onto a wood base dates back to the 1890's or before. I have a Seth Thomas mantle clock purchased by my grandmother the year she graduated from Valperisso University and started teaching in a one room school house in Oterbein, Ind. Have been told by several antique restorers that it was very common at that time. Having shortened,etc several of the Beretta products, I agree with all of the above, it is cheap and sleazy IMHO. Best, Dr. Bill
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Fake is still fake, whether it's on a gunstock or some bimbo's chest. JL Jim I've saw a few bimbos with very impressive fakes.
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Pete 2528ca:
Are you sure about your friends Beretta Ultralight having X-tra wood? I have an Ultralight and it has real. I am positive as I refinished the stock!
I have seen Ultralights in the gun stores and none of them had X-Tra wood!!
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quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fake is still fake, whether it's on a gunstock or some bimbo's chest. JL I didn't say they weren't impressive.  JL
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