Her biggest complaint involved the force required to operate the opening lever: Because she had to press on its tip to gain an advantage in leverage, she found that the barrel selector on the safety button could be inadvertently moved to select the bottom barrel. Shooters of all ages seem to be fascinated with new toys from names they know particularly if the latest and greatest will help break a few more clays or help fill up the game bag a little quicker. They introduced a 20 gauge version this year. I took "that" gun back to Scheels and showed them the issue and they like me knowing the issues I have had with the two different guns couldn't believe it either. Kind of a unique looking gun. I decided that I wanted to become a member and contribute to this community, and posted some questions in a respectful manner. It may not display this or other websites correctly. But it pointed well, swung nicely without being too whippy or too sluggish. In addition, such guns were usually made with steel receivers that bore the stresses of firing, meaning that their bolting and hinge mechanisms had to be made to account for wear that occurs after repeated use. An added benefit of the levers graceful design is that the shooting-hand thumb can rest naturally alongside it atop the receiver. A forum community dedicated to Shotgun owners and enthusiasts including the Remington, Beretta, and Mossberg shotguns brands. (12-gauge); 26, 28 in. The internal recoil system did nothing for me, although I have had 4 shoulder surgeries. Unfortunately, I think it would be great for other people as well. In the case of the Benelli 828U, it's a matter of 'easy if you know how', and even then both removal and refitting of the breach face baffled me for some time. The 828U is what you would expect from Benelli - a hardworking, lightweight and low-recoil shotgun. I just really like it. Think I'll just order from soortsmans and they say i can always decline it when it shows up if it's not my cup of tea. Women On Target Instructional Shooting Clinics, Volunteer At The Great American Outdoor Show, Marion P. Hammer Women Of Distinction Award, Women's Wildlife Management / Conservation Scholarship, National Youth Shooting Sports Cooperative Program, Weatherby Brings Back the Orion Over/Under Shotgun, Winchesters New King Buck Classic Youth Sporting Clays Event Will Have $10,000 In Prizes | An NRA Shooting Sports Journal, Rifleman Q&A: St. Louis Arms Co. I bought a Guerini instead with a kinetic balancer and love it. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a28dd07b9c52d16 Benelli 828u Sport - First Look Review - NEW 2019 1,027,956 views Jan 25, 2019 The Benelli 828u Sport has just been delivered to us. Maybe it's just me but I'm not a fan of field O/U's with aluminum receivers. Maybe one of those that you either love it or hate it. When a firearm manufacturer with a reputation of producing high-quality, durable semiautomatics ventures into the under/over market, a lot of shooters will take notice. Thomas Jefferson. It consists of a cast steel fire control housing pinned to an aluminum trigger guard. The matte-blued barrels and receiver helped reduce glare and seemed to be of high quality. The pen is a nice color, and the metal nib has a nice texture to it. The modified choke in the top barrel produced a 39-61 percent pattern, with 306 hits (46 percent) in the 20-inch circle around the center. It was the only one I could ever have made that I could put my finger on. I spend a lot of time at gun clubs and I have seen only one and it had 28 inch bbls. The Benelli also failed to eject any of the light loads from the bottom barrel, which caused us to consider whether there was a problem with the impulse-driven ejectors that might require gunsmith work. The shotgun just does not have the feel and look of a standard over-and-under. He said company engineers were reserved, not letting on that the gun they were working on was an over-under. It was the worst over under I've ever shot. Lots of 'creep' and pretty heavynot knowing the formal measurement. Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives. They usually have a couple under glass for sale. & hasn't had any problems with it that I know of. A replaceable, solid carbon-fiber vented sighting rib measuring 0.280" wide is topped with an 0.078" red fiber-optic pipe set about 1" back from the muzzle. The Benelli 828u is a pen that I received as a gift. I dont try and go fast and never use anything force, more just move the parts. Good amount of barrel lift and recoil in spite of the design. of No. It utilizes Benelli's innovative Progressive Comfort Stock. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. I dont have one, but have fondled one a few times at the local shop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community. The First Benelli 828u video of UK Stock and we thought. Ive made several small changes to my pen, and these were done using a pen for a few minutes, and then a few minutes of practice until I got the pen ready to use it. It also exhibited generally neutral handling. Feb 5th, 2020. Print Thread: Benelli 828U Sport or Beretta 694 Sporting #8514994 01/27/22 02:45 PM: Joined: Dec 2010. Over on Shotgun World in I love my Benelli, there have been some problems reported about the 828 U trigger assembly dropping out, ejector problems and problems with the breech lock popping open. 828U 04-2020.pdf (16.67 MB) For: 828 U Shotguns, 828 U Limited Edition. But 30" in the 828u Sport (target gun). Though I wouldnt recommend it, I would love to see how it works with the other benelli pens. IMO, I think in O/U shotguns, especially those used for targets, a receiver made of steel not alloy is a must. Looks goofy as can be, like a camo space gun, but I use it for upland, waterfowl, and turkeys and without an issue. Elsewhere, we thought the stock, forearm, and barrel finish on the Benelli seemed to closely resemble the features of a semiautomatic, rather than exhibiting the typical look and style of an over-and-under in its price range. It's an overly complicated gun. I have watched Benelli videos, and have owned several over under shotguns, and have never had any issue like this before. ETHOS Shotgun Product Manual (11 MB) For: ETHOS Sport Shotguns, ETHOS . They definitely arent like a browning or beretta which I really want to like but never feel right to me. Was a surprise to see him with it as he typically shoots a Perazzi. Shooting just a little high is exactly what a field shotgun should do to handle rising targets. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I have never seen one being shot in person. I personally have doubts about it holding up to heavy shells and shooting at volume. Phillips-head screws hold the pad in place, which, once removed, allows access to the Progressive Comfort module. That makes two 828u's in almost the same number of weeks with the same issues. Im a browning junkie for sure but Ive handled but never shot the 828u but I think they are quality one guy said space gun kind of true just like when browning introduced the cynergy citori lovers just couldnt except that look well Im an avid citori owner having around six of them and I own two cynergy models feather 12 and field 20 I really like the cynergy low receivers handles very well but making that change is the milestone. Has anyone tried the Performance Shop version? It is also very comfortable to write with. This, despite its low build cost, means that the 828U is a product condemned to please no one. The 828U represents a true breakthrough in over-under shotgun design, and Benelli hopes it will also help the company break through with a whole new group of upland and recreational sport shooters. And the birds we encountered were not only tough and of good size, but wary, running and flushing sometimes hundreds of yards ahead of the dogs. A carbon-fibre rib sits atop the 30in barrels, and a unique, patented steel locking system has been developed by Benelli's engineers to reduce wear and tear on the action. However, a guy at our club has a new 30" 828U Sport and it felt really nice (I didn't get to shoot it). The trade-off in the field is that most shooters will take a lighter gun that carries better, because just one extra pound adds up over several miles of kicking pheasants up. He eventually gave up on it and moved on to a more reliable gun. We pitted the Benelli 828U, retailing for $2,500, against the Browning 725, retailing for $2,470, both at the clay-target range and on the patterning board to see if the new smokepole performed as advertised against a proven product sitting in the rack beside it. To consistently break targets, particularly those with any distance on them, we had to hold high and right, not the accepted and typical practice of shooting where you look. Firearm has never even been fired, and I have only assembled/disassembled it twice, once when purchased and the second time when I received it back. The 828U is a lightweight gunimportant for a long session of upland hunting in which it is likely to be carried much more of the time than it is shotbut it is the distribution of the weight. Firearm Discussion and Resources from AR-15, AK-47, Handguns and more! This field shotgun provided a solid, well-balanced platform for handling clays and birds, as expected. Required fields are marked *. Overall, our test team members were satisfied with that configuration. They have sold so few new ones there simply aren't many on the street.Look on Gun Broker. A plain top lever lies just ahead of the safety along the left side. One of our test-team members scrounged up a heavier load (a 1-ounce, 1,230 feet per second shell) that did eject from the bottom barrel. Click to reveal And they only weigh about 6.5 lbs. Of course, if a barrel does not fire, the plate remains in its extractor-only position, and separate rods gently press back the extractors, allowing manual removal of that unfired shell. The new Benelli also features its Progressive Comfort recoil reduction system, a removable trigger group, Crio free-floating barrels, a carbon-fiber rib and red fiber-optic sight. The nearly seamless union is not adorned on its exterior as in many traditional guns. I shot 50 rounds and was impressively sore. It then recocks the strikers and resets the automatic safety unless a spring steel clip (below, l.) is removed. http://gundogcentral.com/view_pedigree.php?pedigreeID=84414&sireID=0&damID=0&generations=5, http://gundogcentral.com/view_pedigree.php?pedigreeID=84853&sireID=0&damID=0&generations=5. This Benelli test target is "within parameters" according to Benelli. The action on the Benelli Sport II is strong, fast, and flawlessly cycles pretty much any target load you try to feed it. I.e Beretta, Browning, Ceasar. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. One was NRA Publications Editorial Director John Zent, an experienced upland hunter and clays shot. When I tried an 828U for real the felt-recoil was more than I'd want on a 100 target round - even on 24grm shells . Recoil with the Browning using the two light loads was well within the comfortable range, and spent shells were ejected with authority each and every time there were no malfunctions of any kind. of No. I flew to another city and had to break down for checked bag as my case cannot fit it assembled. 712 shot shells at a range of 30 yards, we found the Modified choke in the top barrel produced a 57-43 percent pattern (57 percent above the center and 43 percent below) and the Improved Cylinder choke in the bottom barrel produced a 62-38 percent pattern. I really like the silver with the engraving. It is a nice color, and is the perfect size to comfortably hold in one hand. A few media representatives were let in on the then-secret project during a mid-year 2013 trip to Italy, where they were asked to contribute ideas about what a new and different Benelli should be. Very nice gun and I liked the slim profile, but didn't impress me enough that I would buy one. Written and photographed by Ralph Winingham, using evaluations from Gun Tests team testers. Benelli has very little experience with over/unders. At first glance, there are only minor differences in the appearance between this field model and its sporting-clays cousin introduced about five years ago. We liked the feel and looks of the checkering on both the pistol grip and the newly designed forearm. Vignaroli used the term global comfort to describe the 828Us combination of weight, balance and ergonomics. The Fora platform includes forum software by XenForo. in front of their join at the monobloc to a point 2" from the muzzle. It is designed to provide a stronger, tighter seal, but to our eyes, it looks like something that could be found in a semiautomatic shotgun. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The ammunition we selected for our testing on the target range and at the patterning board was Winchester AA Extra-Light Target 2.75-inch loads packing 1 ounce of No. Hosts Mark and Robin Braatens comfortable lodge provided an ideal setting in which I was able to discuss the guns design with the Urbino-based engineer who spearheaded it: Marco Vignaroli. AgainI shot a very limited number of times. Advertisement Barrel & Receiver The 828U comes with 26, 28, or 30-inch barrels that have three-inch chambers. Buddy of mine bought one because he duck hunted with s SBE. Most dont have pattern tests. Poor patterns, weak target hits, and uninspiring features all contributed to our low grade for this shooting tool. I did handle it, I couldn't get over how long the reciever was. Ive been using benelli 828u for a few weeks now, and it is surprisingly fast and easy to use. It was about as loon as my A400 xcel reciever, balance from what I remember felt so so, it didn't fit me at all, and it felt like it swung light, as a field gun should or would. I was in Walker MN this week and Reeds Sports had a few. Benelli is not giving me any additional information, but have stated it is damaged and they will not repair or replace the wear I have apparently done. The new 828U is ultra-lightweight at just 6 1/2 pounds. On another thread someone mentioned that street price for a new 828U Sport was already in the $3300 range. Benelli used everything they know about making shotguns simple, easy to carry all day, and reliable, to create their first over-under. The swing was beautiful but the recoil destroyed me. After that round I omitted the Benelli 828 from my list of "want to try". I think it is a decent gun for the money I paid for it. Citori. Thanks Sera- I appreciate the opinion. Secondly, the polyurethane comb cushions any residual impact to your face. I have only seen one of the sporting versions in use in the area I shoot. The Fire-Lite mechanical triggers in the Model 725 are both smooth and crisp, going the extra step to help a shooter stay on target when touching off a shot.