Benelli Armi: The re-edition of a model that since its appearance had been able to conquer the market is a wise operation that allows customers to take advantage of a particular price by placing a piece of gun history in the rack.
di Emmanuel Tabasso
Benelli offers the market the style, elegance and mechanics born with the Model SL 80 again. . Paolo Benelli and that of Bruno Civolani, the first motorcycle industrialist, the second scholar and researcher. After seeing the confirmation of the smooth-bore semi-automatic with long recoil function, some rare examples with short recoil, the settling of the gas-operated mechanism, Civolani observes the Swedish Sijögren, in particular its operation called inertial. It is a system where the temporary staticity of a mass is exploited compared to another move by the recoil energy, interspersed with a sturdy spring which, by ceasing the application of force, returns what it has stored to make the locking complex perform. the movements necessary for the reset cycle. The interest of the Benelli family to diversify mechanical production pushes precisely in the arms manufacturing direction and, as often happens, the innovations that are more detached from tradition are accepted at first by those who are not in the branch, but are gifted with imagination and the ability to take risks. .
Establishing a new company in the arms industry where there is nothing of the kind is a challenge out of the ordinary and for this reason a solid and cohesive group is still formed in Urbino. The mechanics of this new speargun are an incentive to do well: the inertial works very well only if all the components are made and assembled with the utmost precision and this factor becomes the decisive factor with other productions. The Benellis are mechanically of the highest level and together an aesthetic aspect is taken care of that dresses them worthily: the newly proposed Pasiòn maintains that characteristic style that differs from the competition, albeit beautiful, deeply insisting on the fusion between technique and class. The long breech sleeve fixed to the barrel and within which the bolt mass flows gives momentum to the whole and is supported by the lying L-shaped breech, where curved elements and taut lines merge: the solution becomes a characterizing element of the new , different project. There is an evident age leap, a leap in taste, a new element to be proposed to the market that responds in an optimal way: not a flare-up and then a quiet life, but a continuous gradient of pleasure on the part of the customers who they infect each other almost competing to demonstrate their mastery of the new.
The first explanations of many insiders on the operation of this rifle will not always be up to par and it will take time before it spreads and this unusual concept of something that stands still, the shutter, while around everything else is understood. of the rifle recoils. The system is based primarily on a sturdy fixed crosspiece obtained in the bottom of the castle against which an inclined strut stuck in the shutter insists in the static closing phase: under firing the assembly remains stable and the head closes the cartridge chamber then the movement described above raises the strut from its striker and the energy stored by the short internal spring, located between the head and the bolt body, pushes the whole assembly backwards, extracting the spent cartridge case and rearming the hammer: in the meantime, a long spring placed at the end has been compressed. inside of the stock that sends the system forward when it reaches the rear dead center; advancing, a cartridge is taken from the magazine tube and the cycle starts again.
For those who are passionate about hunting and semiautomatics in particular, this SL / 80 model represents a milestone, a turning point that will then be further elaborated with the models that will succeed it, to which only one important modification will be made: the replacement of the strut. inclined with a two-wing rotating head. Of course, many other refinements will be implemented with different materials and executive refinements, but the substance will remain the same and the current re-edition with great care in the engravings and woods of this first shotgun, today with the new name Pasiòn, is an opportunity for those who do not it was present then, to find at a competitive price a piece of gun history with which to have fun while hunting while keeping a rifle in the rack that the more you observe it the more you feel moved in reverence towards that group of fearless ones, it is the case. to call them that, that almost fifty years ago they played their cards so brilliantly.
Technical detail: | |
CALIBRO | 12 |
Camera |
76 magnum |
canna |
Polished burnished |
Barrel length |
65-70 cm (* / *** / ****) |
Sheath |
Steel, polished burnished |
carcass |
Ergal, nickel-plated and finely decorated |
Stock length |
360 mm |
Fold at the nose pad |
38,5 mm |
Fold at the heel |
55, adjustable in 50, 60 |
Tank capacity* |
4 standard shots, 3 magnum shots |
Weight** |
3.300 gr. |
* All shotguns are equipped with a 2-shot reducer. Where required by law, the magazine tube is fitted with a 2-stroke limitation.
** Unloaded gun with 70 cm barrel.
Weight may vary based on component tolerances.
Steel Shot - Can fire cartridges with steel shot
Indicative price - € 1.240,00