Is Benelli really the Ferrari of the shotgunworld

No man, I even said in the post it might be him or it might be the gun. I would guess it's him.
I even called my Tristar a cheap Turkish gun, cause that's what it is, and you'll never hear me boldly proclaim my gun is great...I know it's not. What I don't care for is the guys who insult the Tristars without having ever shot one or knowing anything about them, they write them off as imported garbage. I can say that mines been good, talk to the very few guys who have them and they will tell you they really like them. More and more shops are picking up the brand now because they are slowly gaining a reputation as a decent gun, and not all their guns are budget type either, they have higher end stuff too.
For what it's worth, we shoot with another guy, he's got a low cost Stoeger 2000, and he could shoot the balls off a hummingbird with that thing. Yet another guy has a Browning Gold, he's lucky to hit 50%.
 
again- it ain't the arrow, it's the Indian - if the gun fits, the scores will be better. The problem with most Turkish and Chinese guns is they do not last the many thousands of rounds that better made guns do. For some informal shooting here and there, an occasional hunt now and again, they'll probably work fine. For serious competition, and the practice required for success, they do not hold up.
 
TSV and OOL, It also is practice as much as fit.

I shot a cheap Bear target bow (long bow) of about 30lbs. when I say shot, I mean 200-300 shots after school due to pure boredom and nearer to 500-800 rounds each weekend day.
I knew how my slightly warped wooden arrows would fly. I had several I called "dum-dums" that had big honkin' rubber nose tip. I used these to fire on running rabbit and lighting pheasant.

I was not 100% by a long shot but man... lemme tell ya' any time I had a witness their jaw dropped! Adults were braggin' up my shootin' at the feed stores and parts houses all over the county! You would think I was their own son!:eek: rather than aiming at just the bullseye, I would aim for the points number. This gave me many small targets per round and if I did my part, I had a line of arrows going from center to left in a nice row.

Was that bow a fine arm? NOPE! It was a yard sale reject many years my senior... Was I a crack shot? Not really but I did seem to take to it real well. Give me any bow at that time and was pretty fair right off. Practice of good form and technique makes perfect... Repetitive use of bad habit garners nuttin' but mediocrity!

It ain't the arrow or bow... it is the injun as was said and I had 2 fingers with leather thick callouses to prove it:D

Beware of the man with one gun (or boy with one bow) as he likely knows how to use it!

Brent
 
Well I could care less about competition and all that. My gun suits my needs and purposes, I shoot it well, and I like it. That's good enough for me.
 
Competitive world

If it matters, in the competitive sporting clay world, where a shooter will fire more shells in an afternoon practice session than most hunters will shoot in a year, it is rare to see a Benelli. In a shotgun game where semi auto's are common, Beretta gas operated rule the roost. I would say that 9 out of 10 semi's in the hands of competitive sporting shooters are Beretta's[303,390, or391], and the last 10% are slplit up between old Browning Golds, old Superx1's, new Superx's, and a FEW Benelli's.

The recoil operated guns simply kick too much, and don't offer any reliability advantage over a good gas gun.
 
If you are talking about semi-autos they are the best to me...YMMV. I won't own any other shotgun besides a couple of over/unders.
 
This is one of the funniest threads I've ever read. Thanks you guys.

My Winchester 1300 is like a 57 Chevy. My Remington 870 is like a a Ford F100. And, my Mossberg Maveric is like a Hyundai Accent. And, my Benelli Nova is like a Jeep Cherokee.
 
I don't see that many competitive shooters - even at local events shooting semi-autos either. When I do see semi-autos it's usually a new shooter, or a person who is primarily a hunter - just coming out for some sporting clay practice.

However, the Benelli with the comfort tech recoil supression system in the stock - in my opinion, will give you about the same recoil as a gas operated semi-auto. Is the Benelli an advantage over the gas guns / hard to tell ... - but it is an easy gun to strip and clean and quickly put it back into battery. I like the Benelli SuperSport model in 12 and 20ga. Its a very light gun ( and I added about 1 lb of weight to mine to help the swing characteristics / and that even reduces recoil a little more ). The downside to the Benelli SuperSport is current retail price on the gun in my area is about $ 1,875 and at that price / there are other guns in the mix competing for the dollars.

Frankly, I think price is hurting Benelli ( and selling more Stoeger, etc look alikes ) ....and the Berettas are a lot more competitive on price as well / even though they are all part of the same corporation now. These days, dollars have a lot to do with what guns you see on courses - especially among casual competitors or new shooters.

My primary competition gun will remain an O/U - but I still think the Benelli SuperSport is an option / yet I wish it would come down in price so more shooters would give it a chance. I use the 12ga Benelli SuperSport as a travel gun/rain gun ...and I picked up a couple of extra SuperSports as training guns for the grandkids / loaner guns for new shooters. I'm not saying the 390's / 391's are bad guns - and I see Beretta has a new semi-auto offering out too - the Xplor ..and I see its getting some writeups in the gun mags this month.

I wonder if some of these models / from their various divisions might be going away ...
 
I think the Benelli Vinci will be a hard shotgun to ignore.

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Gonna side w/ LordofWar here. There's some shotguns that the purchase price of a single one could buy you a considerable stake in the Benelli COMPANY. Holland and Holland and Purdey being closer to a Ferrari of Shotguns, there are even higher priced guns like a rare Rizzini that are more along the lines of handmade, nearly one of a kind offerings that may cost as much or more than the houses of anyone in this thread!


As far as Benelli's being overpriced, some are. Their semi-autos certainly are. But like Bill said, their pumpguns are VERY fairly priced for what's offered (a great product by all accounts). I don't really understand this, but it's a fact. Anyone know why the difference in price? The Benelli pumps aren't really my thing, but they are a nice gun and probably, if anything else, the most weather-resistant gun I know of. They're priced reasonably. The Benelli semis are astronomically priced though.
 
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Why? I thought that my Benelli Nova Pump for $300 was a good buy. Have you ever owned one?
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The Benelli Nova is their budget shotgun. I was speaking of their tactical semi auto line: M4, Super 90...ect


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I like Benellis and I am willing to pay the price to get one...but I don't know that they are way overpriced. There are a lot of things that go into making one...the crio treatment, chrome lined barrels, comfortech stock, ease of use, ease of maintenance...plus the fact that they are light weight and very slim (for an auto).

I know that there are good gas guns, but no gas gun is as easy to clean or as reliable as the inertia operated Benelli...on the whole...there might be individual gun exceptions.

Buy what you like and like what you buy...and more importantly, shoot the heck out of it. ;)
 
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