I will never learn

[Rapier]

I have owned 3 Beretta 391 guns in 20ga, a 12 ga version of the 391 and just got the 20ga Cordoba Benelli. I should know better. So what did I do? I took the new/used Benelli Cordoba gun out and shot it, yep, just like it arrived. Kept thinking to my self, self, this gun feels funny. But it was my first owned Benelli and first extended shooting experiance with a Benelli. So I thought, maybe it is just the Benelli.

On the patterning board the bottom of the pattern just did touch the center hole so I knew it was shooting high at 10 yards. The center of the pattern was also a little left. I shot five boxes and I had 3 failures to feed. I "allowed" myself into a 75 on a tough 12ga sporting clays course, cold, overcast and no wind.

Got the gun home and took off the extension then the stock. Good grief, some folks just can not follow directions. The prior owner had DX and SX shims mixed (left and right hand), mixed letters (a n0-n0 which can damage the recoil spring tube) and had the shim for highest comb height installed. So I started kicking myself for not taking the stock apart to start with. This is what you get with a hard head afliction, aggrivated by being a slow learner.

I set the gun up with the same DX, cast off, shims and letters and with the lowest comb shim. Then all I had to do was to return 60 miles, one way, to the range.... what the hey, gas is cheap. I learn best if it is expensive.

Now the gun shoots center hole on the board. I do not like the bead setup on the Benelli though and have ordered a new mid bead and a High Vis front so I can go with a green insert. I shot 5 more boxes without a single burp in function. I guess the tube was binding on the recoil spring, luckily nothing perminent. I ran a 78 on the same course with high gusting wind.

Do yourself a favor when you buy a scattergun with shims set it up for you, before you go to the range. You do not know your measurments? You can get a rough set by standing in front of a mirror and mounting the gun, you should be looking right down the beads at your eye and the muzzle, no sides of the barrel should be seen.
Ed