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Crompsin · 11-12-2007, 06:06 PM

I'm thinking about getting a used Benelli M1 12 gauge autoloader.

They get great reviews. Anybody have any personal experience?

Greg700 · 11-15-2007, 07:51 AM

I have a personal one and we have them at work as well. I don't particularly like them. They work well, and are accurate, but they are extremely long and unwieldy. That length is unacceptable for the kind of engagements I want a combat shotgun for. They are simply too long to comfortably clear rooms.

Also, they are overly complicated, too many buttons, and whatnot. Have you tried to figure out, without instruction, how to load and chamber a round yet? It took me way to long before the light finally went on and I got it.

cj2112 · 11-15-2007, 09:37 AM

I don't have any personal experience w/ Benelli's. I shoot both sporting clays and skeet, and my first autoloader was a Beretta 390. I have now put thousands of rounds of ammo through this gun, and it has yet to have any malfunctions that was not a direct result of poorly reloaded ammo (such as no powder in the shell). This gun is available through Wal Mart w/ a synthetic stock, and matte finish for somewhere around $550.00. I love my Berretta. So much so that I am looking for another one in 12 ga. (mine is a 20 ga.) and with a nice wood stock.

Crompsin · 11-15-2007, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg700

I have a personal one and we have them at work as well. I don't particularly like them. They work well, and are accurate, but they are extremely long and unwieldy. That length is unacceptable for the kind of engagements I want a combat shotgun for. They are simply too long to comfortably clear rooms.

Also, they are overly complicated, too many buttons, and whatnot. Have you tried to figure out, without instruction, how to load and chamber a round yet? It took me way to long before the light finally went on and I got it.

How is it any longer / heavier than a Mossberg 9200 or Remington 1100?

Too many buttons? I figure the bolt release, charging handle, and safety.

Good Article

Greg700 · 11-26-2007, 08:45 AM

Sorry for the delay, I've been pretty busy.

Ok, buttons: The benelli has: a bolt release, charging handle, safety, some other button to let a round pop into the receiver from the magazine, and I believe another one, though I am not positive.

I don't think it is any longer than a remington 1100, but it is definately heavier, and it is at least as long as a full sized m-16.

I know they are great guns, and it might fit your preferences perfectly, but I wanted to give you a heads on on why I don't like them.

11-12-2007, 06:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
Crompsin STRIKE FACE Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Prime Self	Benelli M1 Super 90 I'm thinking about getting a used Benelli M1 12 gauge autoloader. They get great reviews. Anybody have any personal experience? __________________ C19H28O2 = C6H2(NO2)3CH3 All your base are belong to us.

11-15-2007, 07:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
Greg700 Eccentric insomniac Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North Carolina	I have a personal one and we have them at work as well. I don't particularly like them. They work well, and are accurate, but they are extremely long and unwieldy. That length is unacceptable for the kind of engagements I want a combat shotgun for. They are simply too long to comfortably clear rooms. Also, they are overly complicated, too many buttons, and whatnot. Have you tried to figure out, without instruction, how to load and chamber a round yet? It took me way to long before the light finally went on and I got it. __________________ "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

11-15-2007, 09:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
cj2112 this space for rent Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Grants Pass OR	I don't have any personal experience w/ Benelli's. I shoot both sporting clays and skeet, and my first autoloader was a Beretta 390. I have now put thousands of rounds of ammo through this gun, and it has yet to have any malfunctions that was not a direct result of poorly reloaded ammo (such as no powder in the shell). This gun is available through Wal Mart w/ a synthetic stock, and matte finish for somewhere around $550.00. I love my Berretta. So much so that I am looking for another one in 12 ga. (mine is a 20 ga.) and with a nice wood stock. __________________ "If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying--that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976--establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime." Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Committee Print I-IX, 1-23 (1982).

11-26-2007, 08:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
Greg700 Eccentric insomniac Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North Carolina	Sorry for the delay, I've been pretty busy. Ok, buttons: The benelli has: a bolt release, charging handle, safety, some other button to let a round pop into the receiver from the magazine, and I believe another one, though I am not positive. I don't think it is any longer than a remington 1100, but it is definately heavier, and it is at least as long as a full sized m-16. I know they are great guns, and it might fit your preferences perfectly, but I wanted to give you a heads on on why I don't like them. __________________ "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence