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I’ve been impressed with the new model A5 I’ve been trying out for a couple of seasons, to try to keep my rarified Auto-5 Stalkers from taking too much more abuse. The new A5 has been flawless after salt/fresh, rainy, LA coastal marsh use and sub-freezing around here. I probably am far less careful with it than I am with my Stalkers these days. It spends time sitting in water in the bottom of pirogues, getting deluged with rain, sticky delta mud, and sucking up millfoil and marsh weeds/gunk. At most it only gets hosed off and hung upside down, with the occasional squirt of oil or spray of eezox, until after the season. None of the SBEs I owned or was around would have functioned through half of that….they were exceedingly vulnerable to trash, temps, and the right amount of lube. Sure, the design is a good design, but execution/little details seem to make a big difference with inertia guns….very low mass in moving parts requires more spring force/balance in the system to handle adversity, it seems.
Others love them, but after delta mud and rice stubble dust, I went back to the old, faithful Stalkers.
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HRd to beat a Rem 11-87 Special Purpose. You just need to keep ok a spare gas tube ring..
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HRd to beat a Rem 11-87 Special Purpose. You just need to keep ok a spare gas tube ring.. ….and a spare op rod and block, a spare extractor, a heater, a gallon of rust proof, 3-4 springs, a lifter, and 3 more 11-87s to cannibalize…..or just one of damn near ANYTHING else.
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You need to figure out if you want gas or inertia. I like inertia for the ease of cleaning. I can clean my Benelli in five minutes. Cleaning a gas gun takes much longer. If you choose inertia, go with Benelli. That's all I've shot for the last 20 years. I prefer the Montefeltro because I don't like the raised rib that is on the M2. I have a Montefeltro in 12 and one in 20. If you choose gas, the Beretta is a no brainer. Best gas gun I have ever shot hands down.
I would not own another Winchester. If you gave me a Winchester, I would sale it before I ever shot it. That way when the buyer ask me how it shoots, I can say I don't know I haven't shot it.
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