“ The Benelli Supernova Tactical, after very severe evaluation tests from which it emerged as the winner, becomes the standard shotgun of the entire French armed forces in three different versions, 18.5″ Tactical, 14″ Tactical, and 28″ Anti-drone. Seeing a European military force adopt a new shotgun draws attention, especially because it’s a pump-action shotgun. France currently uses small numbers of the Benelli M3 shotgun for its special operation troops, but that weapon is convertible from semi-auto to pump-action.Ĭhristophe Bannier, the director of military and law enforcement sales for Humbert CTTS (a Beretta-owned French company), said of the deal, And I would argue that a tang-mounted safety would make this gun (and all self-defense shotguns) slightly easier to shoot, but Benelli has long positioned its cross-bolt safety at the rear of the trigger group, so you will just have to make do.France has an interesting history of small arms, and admittedly shotguns aren’t a large portion of their arsenal. Lefties will need to reverse the safety as the M3 doesn’t come in a left-handed model.
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The loading gate is standard size, and so is the bolt-release button, which you can certainly upgrade with an aftermarket slammer button. Also, there are no oversized controls with this gun. Even though the gun is light enough to hold with one hand, so you could have a flashlight in the other hand, I’d rather have more control with my second hand on the fore-end, which I could do with a mounted light. In that case, a light is highly beneficial. In most self-defense situations, you’re going to want a light on your gun, because even though most home break-ins occur during the day, you are more likely to be in the home (sleeping) if one occurs at night. There is no rail on the fore-end to mount a light. The only real negatives of the M3 are on the exterior of the gun. It’s a pretty impressive system that countless gun manufacturers have tried to emulate, but none has done it as well as Benelli. There are fast shooters who can actually shoot five shells before the first hull lands on the ground. Once this spring bottoms out, it returns the bolt forward to the chamber, but not before it picks up another shell from the carrier and shoves it into battery. As it moves backward, it extracts the shell from the chamber and ejects it while the bolt’s travel continues to compress a recoil spring inside the buttstock. When it rebounds, it pushes the bolt head forward (even as the gun is traveling backward under recoil), unlocking its bite on the barrel extension and subsequently succumbing to the rearward momentum of recoil. When fired, recoil sends the gun (barrel, aluminum receiver, and stock as one unit) backward, while the heavy bolt tries to remain at rest-hence the term “inertia.” After a split second of rearward-moving force around it, however, a stout spring within the bolt body compresses to a maximum of 4 millimeters. Jeff JohnstonĪ floating bolt featuring a rotating bolt head locks onto the gun’s steel barrel extension to seal the chamber. The M3’s Operating System Here is an up close look at the latch the switches the M3 from semi-auto to pump.
Safety: Trigger-guard mounted crossbolt.It’s not an inexpensive gun by any means, but when you consider it functions as a semi-auto and pump, the price tag ($1,599) is more than worth it. It’s also competitively priced when you put it up against other well-built self-defense shotguns. It gives you all the advantages of a semi-auto with the assured reliability of a pump. Jeff Johnstonīenelli’s M3 is one of the greatest 12-gauge tactical shotgun ever built. Benelli’s M3 By the Numbers The Benelli M3 can be used in multiple applications, from home-defense to deer hunting. While the M3’s recoil mitigation isn’t quite on par with the heavier, gas-operated M4, there’s no question its inertia action runs much cleaner. Returning the lever disengages the action bars, locks the forearm and allows the inertia recoil system to function as a semi-auto where the shooter gains significant recoil mitigation inherent in semi-autos, an advantage that is frequently undervalued, especially when using slugs or during long training sessions.
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