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Nice shotgun. I like the Nova. Very slick action. I agree that the triggers on the two I owned were not that good. I actually like them better than the 870. Most factory shotguns shoot high for me until I add a bit of length with a thicker recoil pad. A simple fix really. It moves my cheek down the comb a bit and solves the problem. The Benelli pad looks pretty thick already so maybe a spacer between the butt and the pad? I thought the Super Nova was adjustable with shims. If so. just add a bit more drop and you should be golden. I see folks talking about testing point of impact from a bench. Other than for a turkey gun I see no value in that at all. Mount the gun and smoothly and shoot it at an impact board or plate. 16 yards is the conventional distance, but anywhere around that should be fine. Wear safety glasses. The bench shot is just to see where POI is vs. point of aim and is different from gun mount and gun fit, which is what your 16 yard test is about. A gun that shoots entirely above POI at 21 yards (100/0) is going to be difficult if not impossible to get to shoot to a 60/40 pattern at 40 yards, or so it seems to me, shims or no shims. I agree 16 yards is a more conventional distance and I don't know why Benelli used 21 in the tests I read about. Mind you, I have no personal experience with the SBE. But there are a lot of folks out there who do and are reporting the same issue. Dual beads I assume? If so are you making a figure 8 out of them or lining them up, trying to block front bead with the mid rib bead? Again, no personal experience. But I believe what I've read was that the shots were aimed right down the rib. Do a search on "Benelli SBE shooting high". There seem to be issues in the horizontal plane as well. None of this makes any difference to me, I have no dog in the fight, just relaying what I've seen reported.
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Nice shotgun. I like the Nova. Very slick action. I agree that the triggers on the two I owned were not that good. I actually like them better than the 870. Most factory shotguns shoot high for me until I add a bit of length with a thicker recoil pad. A simple fix really. It moves my cheek down the comb a bit and solves the problem. The Benelli pad looks pretty thick already so maybe a spacer between the butt and the pad? I thought the Super Nova was adjustable with shims. If so. just add a bit more drop and you should be golden. I see folks talking about testing point of impact from a bench. Other than for a turkey gun I see no value in that at all. Mount the gun and smoothly and shoot it at an impact board or plate. 16 yards is the conventional distance, but anywhere around that should be fine. Wear safety glasses. The bench shot is just to see where POI is vs. point of aim and is different from gun mount and gun fit, which is what your 16 yard test is about. A gun that shoots entirely above POI at 21 yards (100/0) is going to be difficult if not impossible to get to shoot to a 60/40 pattern at 40 yards, or so it seems to me, shims or no shims. I agree 16 yards is a more conventional distance and I don't know why Benelli used 21 in the tests I read about. Mind you, I have no personal experience with the SBE. But there are a lot of folks out there who do and are reporting the same issue. Dual beads I assume? If so are you making a figure 8 out of them or lining them up, trying to block front bead with the mid rib bead? Again, no personal experience. But I believe what I've read was that the shots were aimed right down the rib. Do a search on "Benelli SBE shooting high". There seem to be issues in the horizontal plane as well. None of this makes any difference to me, I have no dog in the fight, just relaying what I've seen reported. I'm not picking any fights. My wife's SBE points well for me and is easy to shoot. My old Benelli M1 Super 90 had a similar rib/stock setup and was flippin' deadly! I expected Fish & Wildlife to outlaw it any day! Killed more birds than Colonel Sanders ;-)
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All good. I just meant I don't own a SBE, don't intend to get one, and have no stake in whether the reports on them shooting too high are true or not. Glad you've got ones you like, apparently there are a lot of other folks that also like them.
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Nice shotgun. I like the Nova. Very slick action. I agree that the triggers on the two I owned were not that good. I actually like them better than the 870. Most factory shotguns shoot high for me until I add a bit of length with a thicker recoil pad. A simple fix really. It moves my cheek down the comb a bit and solves the problem. The Benelli pad looks pretty thick already so maybe a spacer between the butt and the pad? I thought the Super Nova was adjustable with shims. If so. just add a bit more drop and you should be golden. I see folks talking about testing point of impact from a bench. Other than for a turkey gun I see no value in that at all. Mount the gun and smoothly and shoot it at an impact board or plate. 16 yards is the conventional distance, but anywhere around that should be fine. Wear safety glasses. The bench shot is just to see where POI is vs. point of aim and is different from gun mount and gun fit, which is what your 16 yard test is about. A gun that shoots entirely above POI at 21 yards (100/0) is going to be difficult if not impossible to get to shoot to a 60/40 pattern at 40 yards, or so it seems to me, shims or no shims. I agree 16 yards is a more conventional distance and I don't know why Benelli used 21 in the tests I read about. Mind you, I have no personal experience with the SBE. But there are a lot of folks out there who do and are reporting the same issue. Dual beads I assume? If so are you making a figure 8 out of them or lining them up, trying to block front bead with the mid rib bead? Again, no personal experience. But I believe what I've read was that the shots were aimed right down the rib. Do a search on "Benelli SBE shooting high". There seem to be issues in the horizontal plane as well. None of this makes any difference to me, I have no dog in the fight, just relaying what I've seen reported. Got it. Most of these people either aren't using dual beads correctly or don't realize shims are sent with a gun to adjust POI issues. They are essentially adjusting the rear sight so to speak. My Gold was probably 30% too far right at 40 yards. Quite a few said too much for shims to fix. The factory shims I ordered brought horizontal back perfect and kept vertical 6-8" high at 40 with my best patterning turkey loads. Same as you, no skin in the game but you wonder about some of the complaints.
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You couldn't run fast enough to GIVE me that plastic butt ugly benelli.
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