You have to try hunting the over-under Benelli 828 U and then we meet again at the AFV in Arborio, the chosen ground for probing what is contained in this rifle that has already spread many words among the experts. There is a lot of curiosity, the mental dedication to the work, in a broad sense, of the Benelli it is of the same entity, that critical devil that hides in every gunsmith collector towards novelty is kept in check and put in a position not to distort any judgment on the new that is newer ... it cannot be.
The preliminaries are the usual, gratifying and pleasant ones as is the practice in this wildlife farm, accompanied by the best autumnal climate imaginable: in short, we reach the area reserved for us and some time passes before closing the rods because everyone is interested in observing the solutions. mechanical, clearly visible when the shotgun is broken down into its three components. A part of classicism is combined with the adoption of systems reinvented again and again to which completely different solutions are added: the barrel group is hinged on the receiver, starting to think softly how the latter is the daughter of a thought that until today has top semiautomatic espresso machines for technical solutions, for the expressiveness of the architectural design, for the elegance and refinement of the execution. We are happy with all this because it shows, better than any investigation, that the taste for beauty is not dead or even confined to some side of thought, but lives in a large number of connoisseurs who demonstrate, with their choices in purchases, to recognize how beauty is a factor that has a strong impact on the things we love to surround ourselves with.
Benelli 828 U - The receiver and the barrel group
There is no doubt that the observation of such a novelty involves a parallel with the classic invoices and the receiver itself creates that immediate dissonance in the mind where the Boss, Merkel, Browning, Beretta lines are stationed as parameters: when a diversity has the in order to amaze one goes a short distance, but if diversity possesses a character where the aesthetic and functional elements are added together, the road ahead will be very long. Let's ideally immerse ourselves in this substance where the Benelli technology has placed at the center the constraint and closure system of the barrels borrowed from Jäger, but with improvements that have allowed a specific patent, therefore equipped with the pivoting L-shaped block that acts with the longitudinal part as a coupling and with the vertical one as a live closure of the breech of the barrels themselves: a piece of hard steel, shaped and wedged between the bottom and sides, keeps it stably in position. Two small cylinders protrude from the fixed vertical wall and enter special recesses made in the breech of the monobloc.
The forward projection of the barrels is then counteracted by the lower half-ring coupling relieving the half-pins which are two details, still in hard metal, inserted within the receiver walls. The displacement of the breech flare from the closing plate is prevented by the two circular arcs of the upper relief placed in the edge of the breech extension of the monobloc; the two cylinders then counteract the rotation. The different idea was first of all to enclose the heart of the over-and-under in a light alloy shell with an elegant and unprecedented shape together with all the details that in the traditional conception are linked together with the appendages of the two receiver tips and the part of the stock underneath them: therefore we see the opening key with an arched profile which in its movement also arms the batteries, hidden internally with the firing pins and the trigger group, while in the upper area the safety button with the firing selector stands out. In the front part of this innovative entity the half-pins are obtained on which, through the relative trunnions, the barrel group joined with the breech monobloc is inserted: in this are inserted the stems of the extractors controlled by their own springs to activate the primary extraction while two rods with long coaxial springs placed along the barrels give impetus to the automatic ejectors: the release takes place via two pivoting teeth moved by the pressure of the gases drawn from two tiny holes in the barrels.
In detail we observe the rib in carbon fiber, light and with low heat transmissivity, the synthetic trigger group with selective single trigger, wide and smooth with sufficiently clear releases, the hooking of the rod to the tooth under the lower barrel equipped with an Allen key for adjusting the draft and the internal mechanism with pump for release from the rod: it is necessary to press the wood together with the button, thus avoiding accidental movements. On the back of the stock there is a synthetic insert to dampen vibrations while the butt plate Progressive Comforts, company patent, it combines aesthetics, with its precise insertion into the wood, and the function of absorbing recoil energy thanks to the ingenious system of comb blades. The corrugations impressed on the wood at the gripping points are of excellent yield: the fish scale effect takes up the same aspect of a part of the frame / receiver.
Benelli 828 U - So shooting
The weight contained in 2.955 g with 71 cm barrels seems even lower thanks to a very correct balance and the right sections of the grip points. The arching of the key facilitates the opening maneuver of the barrels with the arming of the batteries, the insertion of cartridges and the re-closing which requires a little effort due to the correctness of the games with a new shotgun. Harnessing, aiming, shooting set-up also on the coppiola immediately denote how this over-and-under is designed for hunting: in the meantime we turn the weapon in our hands while the dogs do their job and we appreciate how in Benelli function is always combined with form and how it was possible to distinguish the new from the traditional while maintaining taste and class in the lines and details that arouse the appreciation of enthusiasts.
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