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| by Jimmy W |
| Jimmy W |
Went to a great gun show yesterday. And ran across a nice /like brand new Beretta 470 Silverhawk for $2250.00. I am always in the market for a SXS and was really looking it over. When I shouldered it, the rib was depressed so badly that I could hardly see down the rib. Meaning: it was sunken down below the level of the barrels. And it had no center bead. It made it appear that I would be looking down the barrels and not being about to line up a target, because I couldn't see the rib. Were they all made like that? Or did the gun just not fit me at all? I really wanted that gun. I have never had a problem with not being able to look down a rib, so...........I passed. 
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| by Stanton Hillis |
| Stanton Hillis |
IMO anything that draws the attention to the muzzle(s), and away from the bird, is detrimental. Looking at the bead/muzzle during the swing process is a guaranteed miss ...... behind.
I would not buy a gun with a sunken rib, or worse, no rib at all.
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| by Parabola |
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/BPgb1Sn.png) It is not a new idea. This Watson lightweight “Phantom” 12 bore from about 1890 shows a sunken rib and I believe that that idea was old even then. I understand that in addition to some saving of weight the idea was to concentrate the eye on the muzzles and the bird.
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| by coosa |
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The feature I like best on my Beretta 626 Onyx is the high rib. It's a shame they couldn't keep making a fine gun that was reasonably priced.
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| by Jimmy W |
| Jimmy W |
Well. When it comes right down to it I didn't really want the gun. I went to the gun show looking for a Model 21 and I just did not want to settle for second best. And I surely did not want a gun that in the end, I couldn't shoot. If it would have had a nice rib, I still don't know if I would have bought it or not. But I did enjoy the show and there were lots of great guns there. Some of you would have liked the perfect Model 21 in a 28 gauge. It was really sharp. But the price was $17,000. So I had to pass on that too. Haha!! Well thanks for your replies. I really appreciated them. Take care.
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| by Shotgunlover |
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The Perazzis shown in the English shop ads seem to follow the Boss prototype pretty close. We are talking about the OU Boss, cannot see how an OU could have had a swamped rib. I am talking about the OU with the short rib section over the chamber and another short section at the muzzle, no rib in between.
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| by oskar |
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I shoot a variety of ribs styles, concaved, raised, raised tapered, and sunken on a couple French shotguns and I never think about them and they all shoot.well. I did see a sxs with a short rib near the breach and just enough at the muzzle to mount a bead and connect the barrels, I would have liked to shoot it. I will say the tapered rib makes the barrels seem longer than their 25" length when looking down them.
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