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now that's just plain funny!

Agree. Benelli probably only has $300.00 in the gun

I've got one Super Black Eagle experience. It goes like this.
I imported the gun for my father (M1 Garand guy, heart and soul, 20 plus years active duty USMC, in some truly politically hot and shitty places) before the legwork was done for a US. importer-I think the serial is number 612. It is the first version of the gun, and my father expected it to be the cat's meow, since it would handle everything, right?
Wrong. This gun went back to Benelli USA twice, under the five year warranty they offered (they were OK with the warranty, even though they didn't import the gun, until the problem was out of their scope of ability) with instructions to NOT return it a third time, with over a year left on the warranty. It suffers a failure to return to battery problem, amplified with lighter (if one considers 1 1/4 oz loads lighter, in the grand scheme of things) loads. Pulling the trigger on a 3 1/2 inch round, without more in the magazine is a good way to suffer vertigo for the rest of the day, and, it was hideously expensive for what it is-a pretty consistant, recoil operated, Italian single shot gun.
Every Browning or Remington autoloader I've been in the presence of was more reliable than this thing, and you could have bought two or three of them, and thrown one away and been money ahead.
Please don't suggest I'm the only one-Dustin had one, and agreed with my evaluation, as have some names that have slipped my memory at the moment.
My Dad loved the gun, and spent about 15 years or so mostly disappointed in the thing. It is light, somewhat well finished (no rust, anyway) and at least has a piece of wood on it. Save those, I can find little to recommend in one of these.
I think about puking everytime I look at the little plastic bird on the pistol grip. Never underestimate the depth of poor taste found here in the states, and you will be a billionaire. That is all Benelli ever will show me.
I suppose it goes without saying that I'm un-interested in the new model?
Best,
Ted

I've heard a few Benelli horror stories over the years and wondered if they were true.

I've owned numerous M1 Super 90 Benelis (at least 6) over the years...I still own 2 Left handed SBE's (made in 2000) all have digested every shell I've ever put through them and have never given a minutes trouble.

The Vinci is ugly....but not as ugly as a Moss'berg.

I have had a few as well. Similar problem with the SBE1.
Pedaled it because it was clanky. But, make no mistake. The improved action is the best rough service action in the world.

Dump a box of shells in the mud. Pick them up, stuff them up the pipe wet and muddy, and it will cycle them. Kinda gross really, but from desert to duck marsh they work.

Don't know a Benelli from a Bugatti Ted- wish your Jarhead Dad was still with us and "A-Jay Squared Away"- appreciate his service in our beloved USMC, bet he knew as I do that "NCO's run the unit too"!! The M-1 Garand- still a fine weapon, although I have a 1903 Springfield USMC Korean Sniper rifle-the whole Magilla I guess- USMC leather lace on cheek pad, flash suppresor (NOT a silencer) mine wears an Unertl 10x and it is a "dinger"--RWTF

I heard that...