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I have only seen a few and also watched some videos about them.
I know they can be very pricy other than that I know nothing. BUT today I ran across two Cosmi automatics and got to put hands on, a 20 bore and a 12 bore.
The 12 was priced at $65oo and the 20 bore was priced at $4600. I would say both were plain and unadorned of any engraving.
Was this a good price? I liked the 20 bore rather well.

They are handmade and hand fit shotguns.

They can be finicky.
Good luck getting one dialed in.
They aren’t A-5’s.

They really aren’t designed for dirty environments.

I’ve never seen any for sale for less than $10,000.
All had decent wood, but no fancy engraving.

I only ever wanted one because that’s what Brezhnev used.

back when I worked part time in a local gunshop, we had two of these in...Neither was engraved much either as I recall and we were asking closer to $8,000.00 each. That was more than 15 years ago. I don't remember what they eventually sold for, I do remember they did not move quickly. This was pre internet or at least pre internet for us, so the market was much smaller...

There’s some thing like over 100 machined pieces inside of one. Each one just waiting to fail you individually, or in concert with other pieces.
God only knows who can make a finicky one operate.

Never read of any kind of reliability test involving one.

The price was very right. Priced way below on the 20 ga. I have been inside one of these and they are built like a fine Swiss watch. As far as the reliability I can not say. I do not know who if anybody import these, but even in Italy they are very expensive.

John Boyd
Quality Arms
Houston, TX

Saw, handled and shot one at the Flatwater shoot in Nebraska years ago. A guy named Bob Egbert owned it. I remember it going bang every time, but it sure was a Rube Goldberg of a gun. I remember being amazed by it, but I think that was more of the novelty regarding the gun & it’s design than anything else. When you have one in your hands….the thought will cross your mind “Wtf were they thinking?, or simply “Why?”.
They’re cool, in a Data from Goonies kinda way.

I shot one, a 12 a total of 14 shells and it went bang every time. We were using B& P shells so I do not know how it tolerates different brands of ammo. The price you were quoted for the 20 was a very good price. They are just different. Handle well and are nice to look at but I found that for just two shot they were a bit odd and had a lot of extra motion in loading. I did think that they would be fun in a high volume shoot like Argentina dove shooting where the large shell capacity might be useful. Guess it comes down to how much do you like the gun and is a special niche gun worth a $4,000 investment. You wont find many if any at the price you were given.

Never shot a Cosmi, never loaded one, but looking at images of how the shells stack up it looks like they will hold seven, in 2 3/4". Whatever the number, after having gone through nearly 10K rounds in Argentina myself I would never want to take, or shoot, a tubular magazine shotgun of any kind on high volume doves there. It is murder on the thumb that pushes in the shells. I've seen my friends' thumbnails come off in the days following high volume shooting there. The MO for shooters using a tubular magazine gun there is to have the "loading thumb" wrapped in tape after the first day.

A simple break-open 20 gauge Beretta O/U is what I always used, and see no reason for anything more complicated. A Cosmi might be fun there for a little while but, with over one hundred parts, and without knowing more about it, I would question the reliability of it for an extended time, like several days.

it would be fun watching the game warden check to see if it was plugged - bet most would never figure it out