For a time it was offered only on 12-gauge guns, but it's now available on 20-gauge Cordoba and M2 Field guns. Another way is to let somebody else do all the work and buy a Benelli with a ComforTech stock. One way is to round up the materials, get out your hacksaw and glue, and make various and sundry modifications to the stock of your gun. There are two ways of accomplishing all of this. Incorporating cushioning inserts into the sides of a synthetic stock also helps, as does forming the wrist and forearm of the stock into shapes that are friendly to the hands of the shooter.

A really good recoil pad helps a lot and so does the addition of adhesive-backed padding to the comb of the stock. Another is to come up with a way of isolating the shooter from recoil. Using light loads is one way to tame the recoil of a recoil-operated shotgun. None of that requires the use of heavy loads, and when used with relatively light loads, that gun is quite comfortable to shoot. I use that gun a lot for shooting flushing birds fairly close over pointing dogs, and its lightning-like handling qualities make it ideal for early-season grouse hunting when the trees still wear their leaves and shooting is close and quick. My 5.5-pound Franchi would kick me into the next county if I fed it extremely heavy loads, but that's not the important role it serves in my upland battery. Due to the additional hardware required by its design, building a gas gun that light would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do.įortunately, when it comes to shotguns, we can have our cake and eat it, too. My recoil-operated Franchi 48-AL of the same gauge has a wood stock, yet it weighs only 5.5 pounds.

A 20-gauge Benelli M2 Field with a synthetic ComforTech stock I just weighed went an ounce over six pounds on my postal scale that's darned light for an autoloader. For one, it gives the manufacturer the opportunity to build a lighter shotgun simply because adding gas-handling apparatus increases weight. A pull on the trigger fires that shell and repeats the cycle as long as the magazine holds shells.Īll of this takes place without the need of a gas-handling system, and this offers a couple of advantages to the shooter. Then as the spring begins to propel the bolt forward, the carrier lifts a fresh shell to chamber level, and it is forced into the chamber as the bolt completes its forward travel to the locked position. Case Ejection/Reloading: As the fired hull is flipped from the receiver, the bolt moves all the way to the rear where it cocks the hammer and compresses the recoil spring.

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