[Beentown71]

I am familiarizing myself with a Beretta AL391 Urika a friend gave me. I have always been a pump shotgun guy (870) and not real familiar with semi-autos shotguns.

Anyway I have a question on the action. In the instructions it say to load the gun through the ejection port for the first using the bolt release button (whatever it is called). Then load the magazine tube from below.

When I manually cycle the bolt the next round doesn't get pulled from the tube so the bolt can feed the next round unless I have the next round below the bolt. That is made possible by pushing the little button on the back of the feed mechanism/ramp. Then the next round won't be ready unless I push the button by the feeding port/mech/ramp again. Seems kinda pointless to have a semi that you gotta push buttons for it to feed.

I guess my question is where is a good source to watch the proper functioning of the 391?

Or does someone have a good description of how to properly feed this thing?