Fine Firearms question
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The Beretta A-400 and Benelli line of shotguns are as different as night & day...Pick up both before you make a decision...I have a 20 gauge Ethos...Beautiful shotgun, but that's the problem...It's beautiful shotgun...The Benelli Super Black Eagle or M-2 are much more hunter friendly (camo).
In Argentina all the outfitter used for guns were Beretta A300 20ga they shoot the piss out of those things and they just keep cycling. With that said when I finally stop buying rifles I am buying a left hand SBE3. Only because I have wanted a benelli forever.
YeH, one is a gas and one inertia too. I want a beautiful gun, it’s a reward I put for myself for a certain professional accomplishment that I’m getting closer to! I might even get it engraved. I was originally going to get a Citori or similar double barrel (and still might!)
I’ve handled the Ethos and loved it. I’ll check out the A400 too before making that decision. The lack of recoil in the Beretta intrigues me.
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Sport shooting and upland game - it will never be used on waterfowl (I have a workhorse for that or I’ll buy a cam gun)
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I have always bought guns for usability only - synthetic, work horse type guns. This will be a stray from that philosophy
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Nothing wrong with that. All of my shotguns have wood stocks. My quail gun is a 20g citori. I have a 12g montefeltro but I always reach for the citori. I like the montefeltro for shooting pheasants but I hunt quail way, way more than I hunt pheasant. The Citori is a great gun and that’s what I vote for. I have a soft spot in my heart for Remington 1100’s. I grew up shooting a 20g. A lot of the newer auto loaders don’t really do anything for me as far as style goes. However, if I was going to buy a new waterfowl gun it would be a SBE.
Owen,
Then the Ethos is a fine choice...Like I said, beautiful gun...And recoil is nothing that is even a comparable figure.
My beloved Charles Daly 20 on redheads in 1972.
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Then the Ethos is a fine choice...Like I said, beautiful gun...And recoil is nothing that is even a comparable figure.
My beloved Charles Daly 20 on redheads in 1972.
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i am a early adopter of the benelli shotguns. I have and still shoot a super90 i got back in the late 80s when H&K imported them. It's thin light and goes boom. The A400 is a battleship next to a SBE. it just feels thick and slow.
After a hour you get used to it and its pretty much flawless after that. I went the whole first year with out cleaning it just to see what it would do. It went boom every time from dove loads to 3" hevi Metals. I do wish they made a camo 3" gun as i do not shoot the big 3 1/2" rounds. Flash forward a few years and the gun has been great. Only problem was a busted spring on the gas check that caused it to short stroke dove loads. 10$ spring and it was fixed. quite a few ducks died yesterday catching shot from my a400
ps i still have that vinci for sale if anyone wants it.
After a hour you get used to it and its pretty much flawless after that. I went the whole first year with out cleaning it just to see what it would do. It went boom every time from dove loads to 3" hevi Metals. I do wish they made a camo 3" gun as i do not shoot the big 3 1/2" rounds. Flash forward a few years and the gun has been great. Only problem was a busted spring on the gas check that caused it to short stroke dove loads. 10$ spring and it was fixed. quite a few ducks died yesterday catching shot from my a400
ps i still have that vinci for sale if anyone wants it.
The Beretta Xplor Unico and Benelli Ethos are pretty looking autos.. I once shot a Franchi AL-48 that was real purdy and smooth too but definitely not on the same level of fanciness as those other B guns.
