)Thank you for your comments, unfortunately in my country (Cyprus) CG are much more expensive than Beretta, for example the price of 694 is 3k euros and the Summit's price is 700 euros more.
CG pricing is a mystery. We do seem to pay less in the UK than other markets and yet still get top quality service and support. Americans pay a lot more than we do although they do get a lifetime warranty and 3 free services as opposed to "only" 10 years here (Cough! Hello, Beretta, are you listening?)
Oooh, careful fella, I said something a tenth as incendiary as that just in passing the other week and someone misunderstood where I was going with it and chucked their toys RIGHT out the pram for suggesting that they shouldn't be allowed to buy whatever they wanted to buy! Thin ice, my friend, thin ice! :fie:
is nothing more that passing the time, a bit like watching Blind Date for a few minutes, as you do. Their only distinguishing factor between themselves and a random shooter of equal ( average to even mediocre) shooting, presenting or technical ability is often the camera and nothing else ! Boy am I gonna ruffle feathers. 
Thank you for your comments, I totally agree with you!I’ve owned all of the OP’s options.....like most of us I’ve chopped and changed over the years....but less so over the last 3-4 as I realised it was me and not the gun that was missing
I bought a 692 when they very first came out, nice gun but I had several of the early reported problems with it...sticky top lever etc, etc. Shot that for about 18 months before picking up an Invictus Super-sport fixed choke which I really liked and enjoyed shooting for a couple of years without even thinking about swapping...beautiful gun, well made, never missed a beat and it gave me a (one off) PB of 93.
However the fixed (3/4 & full) chokes always messed with my head to some degree and it started to creep in more and more of late....then I saw the 694 release and thought I’d take a look, picked it up and it felt great so I took the plunge as life’s too short not too. Not the same as the Invictus but not dissimilar either....plus I got myself back into a multi-choke.
Do I now dislike CG now....nope, do I feel the 694 is better than the Invictus.....no not in material terms, but it feels better for me as it’s ticked a box the Invictus couldn’t. The 694 does feel well put together though....I’ve shot DT11’s before....both the original version and the later ‘slimmed down’ version and for me personally the 694 feels quite closer to the later, slimmer DT11’s
It’s always good to get opinions, but same advice as ever...try before you buy, if you’ve done any shooting at all you’ll know when you pick it up which ones right for you regardless of what (relative but well meaning) strangers on a forum tell you.
PS thanks for the video by the way....great watch
Not sure about the porkey side for newer Beretta barrels, taking apart my 686E Evo when you hold the Barrels you wonder how they managed to make them so light imho
That’s what I mean, I’ve had two 682e’s one was stamped 1430 the other 1440, DT10’s and 11’s are much heavier at around 1600 or more ! The new 694 is closer to the 10/11 than the (much easier to shoot well) 682e - I think this is an oversight by Beretta as well as CG who would have been much better off with their Invictus barrels coming in under 1500g.
there are extremely notable examples of light barrels being welcomed (by the majority), the older Miroku’s, the current Krieghoff Parcours, the Contour version of the Remington 1100, the 682e outsold the old spec version which was always roundly criticised for feeling dead in the hands (I owned one for 10 years) because it had heavy barrels, not good for ESP. That’s not to say there aren’t AAA shooters using barrel heavy guns but I’m talking about mass appeal to increase sales.
