Thread: Benelli Model:Raffaello

Anyone here have one of these?
What are they like and how do you find them to shoot.
Likes & dislikes.
Have just seen this one in the flesh and its very tempting.
https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotgu...10420153127004

Looks very nice but its still a "dirty gun", picking fired cases just gets real old real fast. Being a Benelli it will work as advertised.
Perhaps you should buy it and give us a wee report??

Yeah I hear ya on the picking cases just pointed so nice and loved the rounded action.

It's a Benelli, cant go wrong if you buy it. Good looking too

Originally Posted by mikee

Looks very nice but its still a "dirty gun", picking fired cases just gets real old real fast. Being a Benelli it will work as advertised.
Perhaps you should buy it and give us a wee report??

what do you mean by this? direct impingment/blow back dirty (I think thats what you mean) but what is picking fired cases?

Originally Posted by Bill999

what do you mean by this? direct impingment/blow back dirty (I think thats what you mean) but what is picking fired cases?

Picking them up off the ground

Originally Posted by Bill999

what do you mean by this? direct impingment/blow back dirty (I think thats what you mean) but what is picking fired cases?

Being a tidy Kiwi and picking up ya rubbish ie fired cases not leaving them to give hunters a bad name!

I had one of these in a 20ga. (Well it was actually a 50th anniversary but is the same gun with a different engraving set) they are stunning to shoot and are a real pleasure to look at. We do not have any anniversary editions left in stock at Beretta, so all are out in the wild/stores.

There was a limited edition 12g at Gun City in Pentose. It was a lovely gun and handled well. Gone now.

Originally Posted by mcche171

I had one of these in a 20ga. (Well it was actually a 50th anniversary but is the same gun with a different engraving set) they are stunning to shoot and are a real pleasure to look at. We do not have any anniversary editions left in stock at Beretta, so all are out in the wild/stores.
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Would be too scared to dirty it.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Being a tidy Kiwi and picking up ya rubbish ie fired cases not leaving them to give hunters a bad name!

This......................and if you shoot a lot of clays then your mates will all be ready at the next stand shouting at you to get your shit together as they are waiting to start!!

Originally Posted by mikee

This......................and if you shoot a lot of clays then your mates will all be ready at the next stand shouting at you to get your shit together as they are waiting to start!!

Magnetic stick is your friend

Originally Posted by mikee

This......................and if you shoot a lot of clays then your mates will all be ready at the next stand shouting at you to get your shit together as they are waiting to start!!

Not this year as we got a fraction of the previous few seasons, the group I do opening with that targets parries.
We would pick up the spent wads.
Cases are easy peasy.
And the mag stick at the gun club is also very handy.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

..................We would pick up the spent wads..........

How very serendipitous.

When I load black powder 12 gauge I use fibre wads, so no wads to pickup but I am very conscious of the "Pick up your hulls" and[ do so. Moving on, I have just started using a semi 12 g at a local range, not targeting at all, just using the range as an acceptable venue "for noise" as I am working towards getting it to recycle sub sonic loads. However, this involves using a moderator which requires loads to be in plastic wads.

However after returning home and viewing your post and having emptied a box into the blue, I was troubled as to whether I should also have wandered around and "picked up" 25 plastic wads, even if they were not mine.

Your views please.

I think there’s 1 of these models rafaellos at Hunting fishing Tauranga, blinged up to max, with a roundabout 6k price tag, sweet looking gun.