I had one in 30-06. It was not a good gun.
How not?
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DF
1. The gun would not return to zero if you disassembled it to clean it and reassembled.
2. The gun would change zero depending on how much torque you used to tighten the forearm.
3. The sling swivel on the one I owned was attached to the nut that held the forearm and the nut moved when you carried the gun
go ahead and buy it, and report back to us, maybe I will buy another one as well as its great fun to own a precision instrument that is engineered to enable the user to produce variable tension on its major harmonic structure. If you always wondered why they did not displace the BAR and you don't see that many of them, see above. For those that have them go to the AR Forum there is a 2 10 shot group Challenge there, post up your groups. Its human nature to shoot 40 cartridges and when we find 3 that land in a 1 inch group swell with pride, take a photo and post it as a MOA all day long rifle. NO your not going to shoot 10 rounds at a deer, however if you fire those 2 10 round groups you will learn something about your skill and your rifles accuracy.
Jimmy
Sounds like you had one of the very early production models, they changed the rifle shortly after it was introduced and corrected those problems.
I can disassemble and reassemble and POI returns every time (I've always thought this was a silly complaint regardless - My rifles only get a full cleaning, break down at the end of the season - something you can't do with a BAR). The revised attachment system bottoms out the nut, nothing to guess at, tighten it till it stops every time.
Forearm tension has zero effect on POI, again only has to be removed for full cleaning anyway....
Sling swivel on the forearm doesn't loosen the forearm nut at all, swivels completely independently, again corrected by the redesign.
Accuracy discussions are a little silly. No one is saying this is a match rifle (neither is a BAR), it is not as accurate as my bolt action rifles. Way more than accurate enough to make shots in the kill zone out to 500+ yards (not a guess, routinely shoot my rifles at this range, no problems). I'll take the Benelli over the BAR (or a Remington or an AR10 variant) all day every day if I want to carry an autoloader.
Sorry you had a bad experience with yours.
David
