Beretta all the way. Way softer to shoot and more reliable.
Perhaps on softer to shoot, but I think you would have a very hard time proving more reliable. Both great guns, both reliable, but if utter reliability is paramount I'll take the Benelli every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I was with a group in Argentina duck hunting (shooting, really) out of a Remington sponsored lodge a few years ago...care to guess what they had in the loaner rack? All Benelli. Said the Remingtons had stopped working long ago. Asked why no Berettas in the mix, they said "good for doves, not good for mud." This lodge shot cases a day.
