Here's an excellent video by Rich Cole showing what goes into fitting a new set of barrels. He's working on a DT11, but the same principles apply to the 680 series guns. There is much more to proper barrel fitting than swapping out a few parts and calling it good.
My brother-in-law shot 680 series trap guns in competition. I own and have owned many 680 series guns, but never shot one enough to wear it. He, however, shot thousands of rounds a year. He mentioned several times that he always had his gun tuned up byt the Beretta people at Vandalia in order to avoid an unexpected breakdown. This was several years ago, but he said they did it on a walk-in basis and replaced the trunions, hammer springs and lubed and checked the internals for a very nominal fee in just a few minutes. I doubt they were fitting the parts in that scenario.
Years ago when I was choosing between a Beretta and a Browning 20 ga. o/u, I spoke with a local gunshop owner and gunsmith. At that time, he said it was difficult obtaining parts for repairing the Citori. As for the Beretta 680 series, he had fewer of them for repair, but BerettaUSA was a responsive and reliable source for parts. Based on his comments, I bought the Beretta. This was over 15 years ago, and things may have changed by now. Gil
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