Benellis weren’t cheap, but hunters who aspired to the best started buying them. Hunters discovered the new guns were light, easy to maintain, and they worked in conditions that would strangle a gas semiauto. The clean-shooting inertia system set new standards for semiauto reliability when it first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s. The majority of waterfowl guns are still 12s, and that was reflected in the guns we tested last September during our duck gun test, but we brought a 20-gauge Performance Shop M2 with us to see how it performed.īenelli inertia semiautos changed the way people think about waterfowl guns.
Benelli has been one of the leaders of the 20-gauge waterfowl gun trend, introducing a 20-gauge Performance Shop tricked-out version of the M2 semiauto to complement the standard M2 lineup. What you give up in long-range capability with a 20, you get back in light weight and lower recoil. Twenty-gauge shotguns are the hot item in the duck blind right now, as hunters discover that Bismuth, HeviShot, and even steel loads in a 20 gauge can do almost as well as a 12 at closer ranges.
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