And, as any seasoned scattergunner knows, a big part of recoil is when the comb comes up and smacks your cheek. The heavier the load, the more the springs interact to soak up recoil. Inside the pad are interlocking leaf springs that compress to absorb recoil. The 828U has what Benelli describes as the “Progressive Comfort Stock.” The recoil pad is comfortably soft to modulate recoil, but there’s a catch. The 828U is light, at just 6½ pounds, so you’d think that this wispy 12-gauge would kick the stuffing out of the shooter, but Benelli’s engineers built in special features to prevent felt recoil. So, the 828U was not designed to be the lightest gun out there, but to kick the same or less than a heavier gun. Thompson pointed out that no one can eliminate recoil-Sir Isaac Newton was right, after all. It is a terrific field gun, light and handy, and with it I took daily limits of pheasants.īenelli’s Director of Product Management, George Thompson, was there to explain the gun’s innovative features and how they work. There I hunted several days with an 828U and got to know the gun well. Last October, I hunted wild pheasants at the Bad River Bucks & Birds Ranch near Draper, South Dakota.
The 828U was under development for five years before its introduction, and has a host of unique features that set it apart from other O/Us. Never one to rest on its laurels, in 2015 Benelli introduced its first over/under shotgun, called the 828U.
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