My 5.5-pound Franchi would kick me into the next county if I fed it extremely heavy loads, but that's not the important role it serves in my upland battery. Due to the additional hardware required by its design, building a gas gun that light would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do.įortunately, when it comes to shotguns, we can have our cake and eat it, too. ![]() My recoil-operated Franchi 48-AL of the same gauge has a wood stock, yet it weighs only 5.5 pounds. A 20-gauge Benelli M2 Field with a synthetic ComforTech stock I just weighed went an ounce over six pounds on my postal scale that's darned light for an autoloader. For one, it gives the manufacturer the opportunity to build a lighter shotgun simply because adding gas-handling apparatus increases weight. A pull on the trigger fires that shell and repeats the cycle as long as the magazine holds shells.Īll of this takes place without the need of a gas-handling system, and this offers a couple of advantages to the shooter. Then as the spring begins to propel the bolt forward, the carrier lifts a fresh shell to chamber level, and it is forced into the chamber as the bolt completes its forward travel to the locked position. ![]() ![]() Case Ejection/Reloading: As the fired hull is flipped from the receiver, the bolt moves all the way to the rear where it cocks the hammer and compresses the recoil spring.
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