lefever nitro special 12 gauge double barrel review

The Benelli 828U should do none of this and, according to Benelli, never wear out, nor does it have to be built super tight with stiff hinges, cocking, safety mechanism and release-lever tolerances to endure that pounding. After many thousands of rounds, they need to be refurbished.Īlso because of the wear-in on traditional O/U's, the release lever slowly works over to one side across the years. This is why traditional guns are tight and stiff at first before wearing in wonderfully and wearing out ultimately. In a conventional gun, according to designer Marco Vignaroli (the mastermind behind the Benelli Ethos and the Benelli 828U), the explosion from the shot is essentially trying to blow apart the gun, and the hinge pin is what holds it together and takes all that abuse. This is achieved because the locking plate has lugs that hook into the bottom of the monobloc when the gun is closed, effectively making the locking plate (the breech face in this design) a steel-on-steel part of the monobloc.

That's because recoil is directed back to the barrel assembly as opposed to simply slamming rearward into the breech face (and your shoulder). Perhaps the most profound of the unconventional features in the Benelli 828U is that locking plate because it enables the use of many other nontraditional features, such as an aluminum alloy receiver, as well as the impulse ejectors built into the sides of the monobloc.

Lefever nitro special 12 gauge double barrel review