Browning 725 ProSport vs Beretta 694
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- One of the most common questions we have received - Jonny goes through the major differences in these top of the range titans.
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I’m relatively new to shooting so I really appreciated the summary you made around the Browning being a more dedicated clay gun than the Beretta, understanding which gun is ‘better’ for which discipline is a nightmare as a newbie?! Haha. Great review! 🙂
I’ve shot the 694 with adjustable stock loved it
Love both of them, as a 725 shooter I do lean Browning, but it’s kind of the same as the old Nikon vs Canon camera wars or Ford vs Chevy, both are great it comes down to the one that fits you and your shorting style. Great video as always!!
I'm the same. I have the Pro Sport and love it. I had a GTS before this one. But I dare say if I'd started out on Beretta's I'd probably have still got one and favour the 694.
I like the fact it's heavy, without being too heavy. Feels like I'm always in control of it. I like all the extra kit and adjustable parts that come with it.....that also allows you to tell people it's set up for you so you can't lend it them 😋
Nice review, great video. I can't wait to add a 694 to my collection as a new primary clays gun
I've had both , the 694 is more refined and softer shooting , long forcing cones , great patterns !!
I'm buying one of the two soon, was at the shop today they also had a Rizzni which was about 1000 more but seemed very nice ....
Can’t go wrong with either one. With that said I love the 694. I also love the DT11. I also love the M9A3 and I also love the…
Good video I like these side by side comparison videos thanks.👍👍👍
I LOVE THESE REVIEWS ..ALWAYS WELL DONE.
I’ve the 694 adjustable and love it, have a 725 Sporter 2 black and still love that too. You don’t have to be brand loyal just comfortable and a great fit. Another top review pal.
You must be rich, buying one would brake me lol
@@MinhVu-in9izyou mean the brakes would make you stop or break the bank
@@FYMM69 break the bank lol
Thanks for the vid, I have been waiting for this one. I have been wondering about some of top line Rizzini and Ceasar clay sporters, any videos of these in the future coming up, would love to know your opinion as always, thanks
Johnny I've been on a debate of buying one or the other I shot them both. And it was very hard to make my choice since I've been shooting the 686 S.P. Sporter for a year I decided that I needed to step up a bit for comfort. So this morning I went down to the gun shop and I bought the 694
B-Fast comb 30" barrels let me tell you the wood is astonishing. And the gun handles great. I had a great day on our practice range the 694 performance was spot on. The Browning 725 pro
shot well also and yes a bit heavier with 32" barrels it was a clay hog as well. I love my 694 and the people out there have them know what I mean.
Johnny this show makes me spend money.
Okay, I bought the new 694 from Coles because my family always wants to shoot my 725 Pro. So....After shooting these two side by side at Trap, Sporting Clays and from bench throwers, 🤔🤔
To anyone looking at these two guns I would say you have to get your hands on the 694 first. Personally I think the 694 handles better, swings smother, feels better balanced. It has that really nice Italian styling, and feel that seems more refined than the Browning. Most importantly the Beretta Patterens and dusts clays SO Much Better for me!!!
Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with the Browning 725 Sporting, they work just fine. If you’re budget prevents you from spending the extra $1500 for the 694, then go with the std Browning 725. But going from the 725 Pro to the 694 is only $500 and it’s more than worth the extra cash!!!
Hell I’d recommend just saving up for the Beretta 694, if you can.
If you’re comparing the 725 to the 686, 687, or 690, I’d go for 725, Even these Berettas are not the in same class as 694!!
I’ve shot the 694 side by side with the CG Summit too, and again I pick 694 for shoot ability !!! CG Summit, for warranty and classy looks, but CG’s Summits seem to have more felt recoil to me. My son’s Fabarm Elos Allsport seems to recoil less than and pattern better than most of the guns guns I mentioned.
If can afford it and it fits you well, the 694 is awesome for actual Clay smashing!!!
There that’s my 2 cents. You gotta try 694!
I believe summit have better trigger than browning and beretta 694!!beretta 694 have mutch more heavier trigger pull!!browning is too heavy!!!up to 4kilos for the 32"
A video I was longing to see but was hoping to see more detailed review including dimension differences and weights, how they feel. You mentioned they are both different but why. Apart from the grip and forend.
So true..I agree.
Was waiting a lot lot more
Love the full pistol grips.
Just got a 694 B Fast from the NY Gallery, can’t wait to pick it up. Really cool place to visit if around NYC
Am going there next week. Seems like they charge a little more in the city
Good video, would it be possible for a comparison test at a clay range?
Nice comparison.CZcams has allowed us all to be able to hear from highly knowledgeable people in the gun trade who have many years of experience and understand what the fundamentals of a quality firearm are.My criteria for selecting a new firearm is generally governed by its intended use,my budget,quality of build,gun fit & balance,pointability,value for money,brand reputation and warranty(new).Then I consider my cosmetic preferences in relation the quality of the wood,metal finish and engraving.I’ve found that nothing beats doing your own research and visiting a gun shop that carries a variety of brands of the type of firearm your after and physically handling and pointing them.Sometimes you may be lucky enough to have the opportunity to shoot a firearm that has made your short list prior to purchase.Above all,enjoy the journey of selecting your next new/used gun as you’ll be spending a lot of quality time together.Happy hunting!
I dread the day when CZcams just bans all gun related videos ... it will happen one day.
Howard Roark - Lets hope that CZcams leaves things as they are and then people like us can enjoy a lot of the quality videos pertaining to topics that interests us. Cheers, Rob.
Nice review Jonny as always. Maybe you do a review on a Browning B725 ProMaster. I shoot the ProSport, but i'm interested about ProMaster because of the adjustable high rib. Thanks
Hopefully get one down for a review soon.
Both guns for the level of pricing are good rather the best ones.
Prosport 725 I bought in Greece May 2019 3650 euros is an absolutely full edition with nothing missing and gives me real joy.
Anyone can adjust everything on it:
Length (2 different packmayer absorbers)
Weight
Balance (weights for stock and for barells)
Trigger (mechanical ie not inertia) x 3, also adjustable in distance and shape
8 chocks super light as titanium made
8 coloured sights
Easy smart adjustable stock top with all equipment and tools inclusive
Excellent and classy beautiful case.
Berretta 694 ofcourse is a beautiful and masterpiece also..I like it.
Thanks for this detail. How do you find the trigger pull and response? I like a very light pull and is a decisive factor for me when choosing a gun. Cheers.
As a business owner John i can totally understand you’ll be extremely busy but we got a 23:15 video comparison between 692 & 694 which was brilliant but the biggest debate of them all got 9:38. I kind of feel you’ve left us all hanging here and maybe swayed towards the browning being a miroku fan! Again I appreciate how busy you guys are but this video could of being so much more! Keep up the great work
Appreciate that we could have spent more time on this comparison - but if it make you happy we have a proper deep 690 vs 725 in the pipeline
@@tgsoutdoors thats why your my favourite channel on CZcams
Hope they are both proofed steel!
Nice video. Maybe the 694 should have been compared to the new 725 s :-)
I love all browning guns; Citori, 725, Cynergy, Gold, Silver, A5, Maxus even the Cynergy CX. Their rifles are amazing too.
There shotguns
New to shooting, I have a Citori for my first Browning ever and its Great, couldn't be happier.
Is there an appreciable difference in quality between the Citori 725 Pro Sporting and the Elos N2 Allsport?
I looked at 694 , 725, and a browning ultra, ended up buying an invictus 1 😁
The 694 ajustable is available in Canada, $5900 cad.
Hi Jon I have just traded in a prosport for 694 adjustable the browning was only 7 month old I got soo many misfires on bottom barrel my. Friends prosport had the same problem after 10 month it is my opinion the build quality on the beretta is far better keep the videos coming cheers
Oh yes Beretta haven't had any problems with their 690 range, google Beretta 694 problems, least the browning seem to be just misfires which are easy to remedy compaired to Beretta's
Top review and I was a beretta man who got swayed by the pro sport for the exact reasons of how precise and consistent it feels
Any opinion on the 694 vs the regular 725 sporting? the Pro sporting is pretty different than the regular one
Love my 694. Very soft shooting
gr8 video! Can you do a vid on the Browning GTI
Yes!! Pleeeaaasssee do a video on the Gti!
The house plants were a nice touch.
From the U.S. just got a citori 725 sporting. love it!
Awesome video! I've been waiting months for someone to compare these two because it's between these two guns for me
Nathaniel Burks don’t buy one over the other till you shoot both, in my opinion
For two guns that are so similar in spec - they really are chalk and cheese to handle and shoot.
Love them both, I’d love the browning more with a non black action!
As much as I’d love to try the 694, every single beretta I’ve wanted to love over the years, for some reason I can’t shoot them with any consistency yet Brownings suit me
i think you should bring in the ultra xs pro against these big boys in a 3 way shoot im sure you would be surpried
Excellent
While i don't have any allegiance to either of these fine makers i can look at both shotguns with an open mind. They are both extremely well put together and i would be proud to own either.
It seems that the Browning would be more of a trap gun and the Beretta more of an out and out sporter....maybe.
I know it would be difficult to actually do this but, what I'd like to see in a review is this : "Ok, I've fired 50,000 rounds through this gun, this is how it held up".
For example, I thought about getting a Caesar Guerini Maxum but, I hear a lot of people say the stocks crack in many of them after so many rounds.
Hey Howard, you got the point. Why not discuss this after 200.000. Trigger pulls! It is pitty the don't discuss strength of the pivit mechanism of the gun. Nobody is talking about how much pressure the gun can take. Also their behavior differences with larger charges than 24g. It's more commercial talk. Nobody remeasures the barrel twist. Before and after. Sorry. My English is not so good.
I LIKE THE 694, IT FITS ME BETTER AND HAS A BETTER BALANCED WEIGHT!!
My local gun man had a few 694s coming back to him having got a bit wet. Wood swelled and the top leaver wouldn't open.
Same happens to most modern guns I’m afraid
@@tgsoutdoors Is there a manufacturer at this level (or below) that are "waterproof" (so to say) out of the box?? Amongst others, I have a 686 Onyx - no beauty, but the wood (!) is treated with some poly stuff which does seem to work. Can you have nice wood with this poly finish?
Wax the Gun been doing this to my Duck hunting gun for years Blue Steel and Wood still in great shape. But It’s only been since 1976 I still have 3 more years then I’ll give a 50 year review.
@@sha6mm I'll be able to a 125 year review on a couple of mine next year.
Bună dimineața cât costă o armă 725?
Doesn’t the 694 have an adjustable comb on the b-fast model?
Nope , got mine modified by W Evans around £300
So which one would you pick ?
still love the 682 gold e
Hi. Nice videos. Clarify? 694 for shooter more instinct and larger dose of luck? More clarity around ‘dose of luck’ please. Thank you!
The larger dose of luck I mean those with a more erratic shooting style.
@@tgsoutdoors thank you, I’m pretty sure that’s me. We (usa) just received the 694 ACS, this vid just made it a stronger contender versus importing the pro-master
And the winner is Miroku.
Just a shame there is no factory adjustable stock on them (in the UK). Although i guess you can send it of after you pick one up for it to be done.
A more interesting comparison would of course be the regular 725 sporting vs the Beretta 694
You had a look at the new 725s at the shooting show,how do you think it compares to the old one bud?
I wasn’t a huge fan of the base grade 725 sporter - this new version feels like an entirely sweeter gun.
@@tgsoutdoors thanks for getting back to me,looks like another purchase very soon 👍
What in your opinion is the shotgun with the lowest felt recoil out of the box (12 gauge)
Lol I had the same question
I haven't watched this yet, but def piqued my intetest. I actually think the ml11 is better stocked than the 725.
Do a video on a Browning 325 grade 2
I have a Browning 725 Pro Sporting, USA version, and was very disappointed when I first got it, special ordered I hadn’t held it until it arrived.
After owning it, shooting it, & dealing with Browning CS for the last year and a half I’ve come to really like it. That said I would never buy it again or recommend someone either. It’s not worth $3500 at all!!! So if you’re in the market for a 725 I recommend just buying them standard sporting version. Then you can add an adjustable comb, if needed, a case, choke case, ect. and save the extra $1000.
Also the USA 725 Pro Sporting is NOT the same as the UK version.
The US version is basically the same as the std adjustable comb 725, but with cheap laser engraving on the receiver, only stock weights, and a $175 hard case. Not worth the extra $1000 over the std 725 version.
If the US had the same Pro Sport as the UK, I would probably feel differently.
You spent 3.5 K on a gun you hadn't handled let alone shot, you deserve to be disappointed, more money than sense.
Have both. Beretta is head and shoulders better in terms of parts and service. No comparison in their service!
Since when, not in my part of Tanzania, had to wait 10 months for a new fore-end for my 694 when it finally arrived it was for a silver pigeon , they then told me to get on with what I had and not keep complaining, so now the beretta is propping my hut door open and the Browning 725 is pride of place in new leather gun case. Thanks again Browning for your generosity
@@rogerofrhodri Beretta has never heard of Tanzania, that's the problem :)
I think you should compare B725 Sporter 2 with 694. At that hypothetically comparison the Sporter 2 will be 2000 euros cheaper. This will make it winner!
The Pro is totally competition shotgun, if you want to compare it you must put it oposite DT.
Browning have more fair prices, considering nowdays tecnology.(Sorry for my poor english...)
725 looks like a ATA with the way the logo os placed on the stock 🙈
Browning 👍
E tipo tenho dois amores não sei qual gosto mais duas jóias
Interesting review, my personal thoughts are the Prosport is more comparable to the dt10/11 and the 694 would be closer to either the 725 s or 525 SL. Ability wise that would be, I own an SL after using a gold e, 690 black and several guerinis (one being an impact) for competitions and I feel the 525 is heads and shoulders above them
So it’s your Money what would you buy ?
694 probably between these 2
Any chance that someone who is more familiar with brands than I am can tell me which Turkish brand he is refering to (the one hanging on the wall)? Thanks a lot!
He is referring to a Yildiz pro sporter black, its basically a straight up copy of a Perazzi mx12. Great looking gun and gets some great reviews. I've never shot one, but I'd like to try one given the opportunity.
Holy hell that Pro Sport looks like an ugly brick compared to the 694
Beretta 694 ottima arma, Dt11 il Top!
Japan.vs Itally
was that English?
Have had Berettas and Brownings. Had a 682 EELL...damn near made be quit shooting. The recoil was crazy. Probably could have spent a bunch and had it fit to me but not in the budget. Picked up a 725 Sporting and it shoots like it was made for me. Can shoot it all day. No more Berettas for me.
beretta uses Turkish walnut.
Yes
Shark Sandwich
The 694 is having some problems with lighter loads
I'll take that beretta
$4300.00 with adjustable stock and it's yours my friend!!
@@Plainsimple67 Hello I got on for 4,250.00 on the rim and out the door. It was fun shooting to buy another sporter gun.
@@DFox-ud3gx 👍😉👉💥 AWESOME!!! FROM WHERE? ADJUSTABLE STOCK AND ALL?
@@Plainsimple67 Yes in maryland but they sold the last one 3 weeks ago. You can get one on the gunbroker site. I did get the B-Fast gun and added barrel weights also it's perfict
@@Plainsimple67, good day Sam I just bought a 725 Sporter 20bore and with 32"barrel's I got it for$2,000.00. old but shot 5 time's then in the gun safe for 6 year's from a good friend. He didn't like it because he was left handed I love Browning Sporter 20 gun's
can you make a podcast
We have already got one which is avaible on Spotify and Itunes
open.spotify.com/show/7EYQ5dNAtyMCKrgUd7ebNF
Hi, maybe you should starting to include warranty service to your reviews, since Beretta is very very very bad in her service department, they don't respond to emails or phone calls. If you search on web you want find any contacts regarding warranty issues, and most clients complaining about malfunctions wait more than 6 months, if they are lucky people. Run away from Beretta. This opinion is based on my one experience with Beretta.
Maybe that's because Beretta builds a gun not needing service? I've been shooting one for 20 years with no need for service
The Browning Prosport is a better skeet & Trap gun. The video has such a SC bias. The Browning is a calculated gun, a chunky statement for the dedicated clay gun where repetition and perfection is a must! The the Beretta is a far more versatile gun where you can shoot anything, specifically sporting which lends itself to the true definition of “anything”. Well, to give yourself the best chance at running a 100 straight in skeet or trap you need that dedicated clay gun, one that performs effortlessly while doing the same thing over and over again. In sporting where targets are going in multiple different directions you need a gun that is far more versatile, which usually means a profoundly lighter gun and one that can be shouldered quickly. Yes, similar to a hunting gun, only a little fancier. JMHO
TGS Outdoors.I enjoy your videos, but may I make a suggestion concerning your presentations? Would it be possible for you to take a pro course teaching you how to properly speak so old guys like me can hear what your saying? A voice coach? Your voice continually tapers off to such a low volume at the end of sentences that I don't hear much of what is said when that happens. If the closed captioning would be even remotely close to what you say it would be fine, but it is not. And at times you speak much too fast. It's impossible to try and follow the closed captioning when your spewing out 300 words a minute. The T.V. industry, because it is so much older than CZcams has pretty much already addressed speech, lighting, pronunciation, micro phone placement and voice projection etc. I'm hoping up and coming CZcams stars like yourself could maybe put a bit more research and effort into polishing the production details of your videos. Love the content. I just wish I could understand more of what you say. Thanks. Brad m.
I would stick to my trusty bomb proof Russian Baikal MP 27
Holy cow!!! You really went off the chart there!!!😂👍😉👉💥💨🥏
Guerini is several levels lower than two B's...
Had two Berettas ejector problems with both they wanted to send Ejectors I’m not a gunsmith they said it was a easy fix not as easy as taking my money browning is just a better gun period
Not a big fan of Beretta guns I’ll take the Browning every time
Browning is good BUT Beretta all the way mate
Can you elaborate on that? (Thoroughly)
1valg fan club comment.
@P. C-3 Apparently You can not. Comment dismissed as invalid, unsubstantiated nonsense.
The 725 will outlast that 'pasta smasher' by a long time, since they made them in Turkey the ribs are 1st thing to go, give it 5K or so cartridges and it'll be as loose as a farmyard gate , I've heard of 3 in the last 6 months all with loose rib problems
neither - buy a K80 and never worry or wish again
Well from what I know K80 is a couple of thousands more expensive so your comment... 😂
Ummmm, The 694 is made in Turkey ergo it must be rubbish, right?
The 694 is made in Turkey?
Mine says, Made in Italy
Well that that will definitely “dumb it down”. Sorry, not sorry, it is just what it is. Globalization is a terrible thing.
Honestly, slow down, you have a tendency of mumbling really fast when mentioning something, don't understand a word you're saying! You mention an alternative and all i heard was a muffled sound.
the dude doesnt make a definitive statement in the entire review. ridiculous.
There is none to be made!
If you want a beast that will be restrictive outside of sporting, buy a pro sport.
If you want something more versatile buy the 694
He's not a dude, he's a bloke or a chap :). I could watch his reviews all day! One of the best gun channels on CZcams
He is all of the above and also a Scandinavian Giant. He said so himself. He is everything and a bag of chips.