Quote from: bigbird on March 21, 2025, 05:28:07 AMI'm looking at buying one and was wondering what those that have one thought of them. A couple questions I have are is the point of aim and impact better than a benelli. Can I remove the rail on top of the receiver easily. And does the bolt technology they say is better for not having the benelli click as good as advertised? Thanks for the feedback and I hope you have a safe and successful spring
I dont have one personally but I know of a number of guys that have owned one. From that experience it seems their POI issues are all over the place, some REALLY bad and others ok. IMO benelli gets a bad rap on POI but mostly from guys that dont know or understand their design for it, which is for wing shooting. Most all wing shooting designs are to shoot high in a 60/40 or some even has high as 70/30. Look at ALL trap guns manufactured, they are designed to do exactly the same thing. Now whether or not they SHOULD be designed that way is a totally different story.
As far as the retay bolt design, its exactly the same as the bolt that benelli redesigned a few years ago. All current models have the updated design. Ive owned a SBE2 and M2 I have used for a LONG TIME in duck holes and turkey hunting and prob have 3k rounds through my SB2 and never once had an issue, and thats the old design.
I think some people get caught up on a handful of online reviews where the malfunction of the bolt is mostly user error but they blame the gun and then others run with it. In addition people that have shot thousands of rounds through them with no issue are not posting reviews like the 1% that had it happen. Again just my opinion
having said that Retay makes a very nice benelli clone, but they do have issues with POI that is pretty well documented on a number of sites. Maybe that have fixed that issue now, I dont know.
