Benelli is the superior rifle by a considerable margin. It is the only one of the bunch that can be quickly and easily dissasembled for a thorough cleaning. As delivered it's good to go fo many thousands of rounds, but when the inevitable happens its the only one that can easily have wearable parts swapped. The piston design is clean and doesn't dump gases into the action.
I have two of them with about 2500 rounds between them w/o a single malfunction - ever. Back when I was under the belief that hunting could effectively control feral hog populations my son and I used them to great effect. The action is 100% reliable and the accuracy is quite good for a semi, easily shooting 5 shots into 1.25" groups at a 100 w/ factory ammo.
The Benelli's great sin was being popular with a well known troll on this forum. That and being exorbitantly expensive when introduced.
David
