I have a a400 explor , loved it at first.Ishot over 2,000 rounds out of it befour my first jam up. Now it will jam five or six times out of 50 shots.getting a little angry.I keep the gun clean ,any suggestions ?

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I’ve put 50 rounds through my A400 and have nicks/scratches on the front of the ejection port at the top and the bottom. Also, a small nick along the lower inside of the ejection port – the inside edge, a small half circle nick. Its so near a semi circle I can’t tell if its supposed to be there. This is my first automatic and not sure if these kind of marks are normal. Please let me know what you hear from Beretta.

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BUT, there is always a but, with the safety located on the front of the trigger guard, i am having a problem. around the safety button there is a raised bezel, (for lack of a better term), that is somewhat sharp. every time i shoot this gun it puts a gash in my index finger. to the point that i have to wipe off the blood every time i shoot. and i am not talking about a little scratch i mean a gash. i know it is the safety housing doing this because i can see the dried blood on it. i have been shooting shotguns since i am 6 years old, i am 47, i cannot tell you the number of guns that i have bought in my life, and if i really knew i still would not admit to it, i’ve never had a gun do this to me. i am very puzzled and hurting. but not bad enough to stop shooting ducks and geese.

i am thinking it may be the result of the kickoff. if the kick off will recoil about a half inch, maybe the stock throat is slipping thru my hand and the safety housing is cutting my finger every time. if i put a death grip on the stock to shoot it won’t slide as much , but i know that is not the proper or natural way to shoot.

any suggestions?

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I love it. The wood is oil-impregnated Walnut. I got the 28″ barrel. It’s 2 lbs lighter than my 11-87 (for sale now by the way). It has less recoil than the 11-87 even with the lighter weight.
And my first 3 shots out of the box was a 2 3/4″ 1 oz load, a 2 3/4″ 1 1/8 oz load, and then a 3 1/2″ 2 oz load and it fired and cycled them all perfectly. Recoil was less than the 11-87 like I said, and the 11-87 is to me a pretty reasonable recoil reducing gun.

Yesterday I shot a box of 2 3/4″ 1 1/8 oz through it like the manual suggests and really got time to notice how less the recoil is. I’ve shot a 20 single shot before and it had more recoil. Twice I even just pointed it downrange and started pulling the trigger watching the empties fly out and yes, that picture they show is absolutely right on how fast it is. The second time I did it all three shells were in the air and if I could have fired a 4th they would have still been in the air (more on the 4th shot in a minute). The first time I flinched after the 2nd shot because my brain “knew” that 3 shots of 1 1/8 from the 11-87 that fast was going to hurt, especially since I wasn’t mounted great so that I could watch the shells come out. That 3rd shell didn’t load but it was my fault for not having a firm shoulder for it to recoil against, just like any auto needs to have to function.

That 4th shot…they decided for me that since most countries have a limit of 3 shots (one in the chamber, 2 in the tube), well by gosh they’re going to put the plug in there for me. And they’ll give me another plug that limits the capacity to one in the tube which is for other countries. All good I guess BUT, to take the plug out you need a “qualified gunsmith” according to the manual. Giving it a general look but not wanting to do any damage, I still haven’t figured out how to get it out. Looks like it’s set up for a screwdriver maybe but nothing in the manual to explain it. For home security, 4-5 shots available is much better than 3. Because of the picture I have to assume it holds at least 3 in the tube if not 4.

That’s the only thing I’ve seen that I didn’t like so far except for a couple of case suggestions. It comes with a nice case (which needs a bit more “pillow” to hold things in a bit tighter so they don’t move around). Two handle areas and several nice hinges will keep everything tight.

It has the 2 recoil compensators in the stock, and the third one is in the stock too, where the bolt goes to hold it onto the receiver. The “green” metal is beautiful and almost looks grey in some lights. There are many things they’ve done and used to reduce or eliminate corrosion problems. The trigger guard is larger and shaped well so if you want to use gloves you can.

Something else that I’ve gotten used to and is nice to have while squirrel, turkey or deer hunting is a rear bead. This gun doesn’t have one. I didn’t miss it at all shooting the skeet, but… I might have to see someone about putting one on for “aim” shooting. I suppose I can ask about the plug then too!

It has a bottom vent that I saw somewhere someone wondered about how much force came out of it. None basically. It just gives everything a place to “breathe” since there are no openings on the top of the gun for this so that the barrel-to-forearm movement is kept to a minimum.

The checkering is first rate. Nice and clean, sharp and detailed, and on the bottom of the forearm they’ve engraved a logo into it very tastefully. The stock and forearm cap both have a place to attach a sling. The shine of the wood and metal are all muted (except for the chrome plated trigger) so as I’m looking at it right now leaning next to a camo gun case, it blends right in. Which is great because I’m one of those people that thinks wood and “normal” colors look so much better than camo. If you don’t move in the field, you won’t spook much. Move even with camo and they’re going to see you and flair/spook.

Well, hopefully this will help someone who may be on the fence on whether to get one or not. While I’ve only shot about 35 rounds through it, the dealer I bought it from said that one of his other customers shoots competitively with it and already has over 2,000 rounds through it with no issues at all.

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The 3-shot isn’t really an issue in Texas either, or for that matter in the U.S., at least for me. 90% of my hunting is for migratory birds, and that has the 3-shot legal limit anyway. If the 3rd recoil reducer is in the loading tube, then if you are squirrel hunting (or rabbit, etc) then you are not shooting as much usually and so recoil won’t be such an issue. Now if you are crow shooting or something like that, I guess you’ll want that 3rd recoil absorber, and just need to learn to load quickly.

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