On other forums it seems more than a few SBE 3s have had point of impact issues. Being short stature I preferred my 2 to the SBE3. I know a couple people that had stoegers (feeding problems) and now have benellis. Never owned a franchi but handled them and read a lot of good reviews on them. I would vote for the SBE2 or the Franchi. There are some deals on the SBE 2s since the 3s hit the market, got one new in camo for 1200.
