Stoeger vs Benelli

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I've been reading the adds about the stoeger semi auto having the same benelli system. It seems this system looks more durable and less fussy than a gas operated system. The difference in price between the two is substantial.

Is the cheaper stoeger just junk or will it do the job as well as the benelli. What does the extra money get you ?
 
If you keep a gas gun clean like a person should it will be just fine.

I clean my SX3 once a year (Complete action teardown), I shot 150 plus 18 year old hand loads that my father in-law had laying around. They carbon'd up my gun quite a bit but she never had a hiccup. Plus the over 150 rounds through it while hunting waterfowl.

Gas ports in the barrel never got fowled and the gas piston kept on pumping!


Now as far as the Stoeger goes. My bro shoots a MAX-4 2000 and it has gone without a hiccup as well for over 2 years with only lite cleaning. ie: Barrel. If you get a Camo model, watch for finish as it chips relatively easily and is caked on in spots.
 
I have the stoegar and I love it !! It's been very reliable no problems, I have had it for at least 5 year's and I do alot of shooting and hunting. I guess the only draw back that I find in it it will not shoot 3 1/2 inch shells, heck I like it more then my ex berreta extrema.
 
If you get a Camo model, watch for finish as it chips relatively easily and is caked on in spots.[/QUOTE]

Excellent point I forgot to mention. I also have a few small chip's of camo missing off of the barrel
 
Benelli owns Stoeger and Franchi and all use different Inertia system. They don't compare in reliability and value. Check the Benelli web site forum and compare complaints with the Stoeger and Franchi forums. All three forums are on the Benelli web site. If you think Benelli is too $$$, I would go with a Franchi I-12. Forums will indicate less problems from the Benelli to the Franchi to the Stoeger. They all opperate clean as a lot of crap goes through the barrel which in return gives you a cleaner operating shotgun. The only thing good about Inertia driven shotguns is they are easier to clean and you can shoot more between cleanups. Benelli also holds the title for being the most lightweight gun and they've put their best technologie in their Benellis. Myself, I would either get a Benelli or a Beretta before any Franchi or Stoeger.

The extra money gets you a better Inertia system, better butt stock(comfertech) with adjustability cast, comb, crio chokes, workmanship, resale value, bigger trigger guard, will shoot 2.75" to 3.5" etc.

Myself, I own a Benelli Super Black Eagle II and love it. I did a lot a research before upgrading from my Remington 1100, and I have ne regrets.
 
I have a Stoeger 2000 and it hasn't let me down in all weather conditions and has endured quite a bit of abuse waterfowling. Mine is the wood stock with white bead, I guess it's a first generation and I am the second owner.
 
One is built in Italy, The other in Turkey.
I agree, check the forums. I had a P350 pump and while there are many who report great luck with them, just as many it seems report the opposite. Mine was absolute junk from day one.
The reports seem to be similar on the 2000.
The only way I'd consider one would be used, and I'd actually need to see it work a day shooting clays ..... Not many opportunities to do that out there.
 
Here are my 2 cents. I own a p350 and I also own guns that value the $2000 dollar mark. Owning a Benelli would be nice (ive shot a SBE lots, thats what i used living in NZ) but ive worked the p350 through 10 more dirt,mud, etc than i would any $2500 SBE. I have had the odd issue with the p350 but when I dump the 4wheeler with it scabbed on im not worried. I think i paid around $350 and I work it, where id cry if i saw big clump of mud fly into the action of a SBE.
 
If I paid $2000 or $200 for a hammer, I'd still hit nails with it.

What happens in the feild stays in the feild....they are just tools. We chereish them and have sentimental value for them, but deep down, when they are of no use to you anymore, they get sluffed off for the going rate.

When I'm using a tool, I want the best tool for the job...Period
 
jonesbb630 said:
Benelli owns Stoeger and Franchi and all use different Inertia system. They don't compare in reliability and value. Check the Benelli web site forum and compare complaints with the Stoeger and Franchi forums. All three forums are on the Benelli web site. If you think Benelli is too $$$, I would go with a Franchi I-12. Forums will indicate less problems from the Benelli to the Franchi to the Stoeger. They all opperate clean as a lot of crap goes through the barrel which in return gives you a cleaner operating shotgun. The only thing good about Inertia driven shotguns is they are easier to clean and you can shoot more between cleanups. Benelli also holds the title for being the most lightweight gun and they've put their best technologie in their Benellis. Myself, I would either get a Benelli or a Beretta before any Franchi or Stoeger.

The extra money gets you a better Inertia system, better butt stock(comfertech) with adjustability cast, comb, crio chokes, workmanship, resale value, bigger trigger guard, will shoot 2.75" to 3.5" etc.

Myself, I own a Benelli Super Black Eagle II and love it. I did a lot a research before upgrading from my Remington 1100, and I have ne regrets.
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Ahhhh...........actually Beretta owns Benelli,Stoeger,and Franchi.
 
:agree:Benelli Beretta are old, founded, excellent hand made italians guns using the finest metal quailty and computer design (benelli)

franchi is italian and doesn't have as long a history..

and stoeger is made with low grade metals in Turkey with guns turned out for cheap on machines,

fit and finish plus metalurgy is not comparable. Hence the price. My benelli has never failed me once EVER yet. and it was worth it. Get what you pay for.


The fact that Benelli/Beretta's holding group bought stoeger doesn't mean they like stoeger, it just means they didn't want competition to their ID designs so they absorbed them, but thats where the similarities end.

Also all of the companies above are seperate companies entirely, no relation other than their parent company who bought them all up. Benelli licenses their patent to their rotatry inertia bolt design to franchi and stoeger but how they use it and for how cheap is up to them.
 
The difference that no one has mentioned is on the stoegers it that the bolt does not rotate and lock into the barrel like the SBE. it just closes straight on. The other shotgun that is simular to the stoeger is the Benelli/Beretta Pintail which uses the inertia system but the bolt again does not rotate and create a lock with the barrel. I have the SBE and the Pintail and have looked at the stoeger. All of them are fine firearms but the "performance worth the price" that benelli advertises is, to me, truth in advertising.:shotgun:
 
lord-humungous said:
I have a Stoeger 2000 and it hasn't let me down in all weather conditions and has endured quite a bit of abuse waterfowling. Mine is the wood stock with white bead, I guess it's a first generation and I am the second owner.
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x2 for me. My only complaint is the cheap choke tubes that come with the gun. Easily replaced with better quality ones. As far as I know the bolt does rotate and lock into the barrel on my 2000.
 
+1 on everything you just said, could not have said it better!!
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jonesbb630 said:
Benelli owns Stoeger and Franchi and all use different Inertia system. They don't compare in reliability and value. Check the Benelli web site forum and compare complaints with the Stoeger and Franchi forums. All three forums are on the Benelli web site. If you think Benelli is too $$$, I would go with a Franchi I-12. Forums will indicate less problems from the Benelli to the Franchi to the Stoeger. They all opperate clean as a lot of crap goes through the barrel which in return gives you a cleaner operating shotgun. The only thing good about Inertia driven shotguns is they are easier to clean and you can shoot more between cleanups. Benelli also holds the title for being the most lightweight gun and they've put their best technologie in their Benellis. Myself, I would either get a Benelli or a Beretta before any Franchi or Stoeger.

The extra money gets you a better Inertia system, better butt stock(comfertech) with adjustability cast, comb, crio chokes, workmanship, resale value, bigger trigger guard, will shoot 2.75" to 3.5" etc.

Myself, I own a Benelli Super Black Eagle II and love it. I did a lot a research before upgrading from my Remington 1100, and I have ne regrets.
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As noted by another post " you get what you pay for". You simply cannot compare these two guns as the similarities stop at recoil operated. The form, fit, function and quality of the Benelli far outshine and will ,I'm sure, outlast a Stoeger.

The Stoeger has it's market niche so you have to decide how long you plan to keep the gun and what you want it to do.

My 12 gauge semis are a Benelli SBE and a Supersport. Took some saving and trading to get them but they are quality guns that I'll have for some time to come. Wouldn't be hanging onto a Stoeger with the same admiration.
 
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