...but you did not shoot the deputy?

Phil, my grand pa used to tell me beauty is only skin deep, ugly is to the bone! Glad you had a pleasing trist with the new girl on the block. I agree with Vic, I can abide by one or the other, but not ugly and expensive. Maybe the Vinci will follow the same cost curve that satellite TV did when it first came out. One day they will be $149.95 with 3 free cases of shells and I'll buy one...

People who tried out the Vinci in Argentina (on benelli's website) also seemed very happy with the gun. In fact, I think they loved it. With all the rounds put through it in Argentina, supposedly, with no malfunctions or jams what so ever. Pretty impressived within itself. If I have the chance, I would love to shoot one.

I'm not out there to look cool with my gun, I'm out there to shoot birds. If this gun does that really well, you'll look cooler than the guy that can't hit anything with his pretty gun.

Phil two questions:
Is the inertial spring system identical to the stock located models, in size etc. (you know, the Supersport and Black Eagle), and, is the receiver lock up sufficient to support the gun itself. Kind of looks like a bayonet mount - type arrangement and I wondered about long-term structural integrity. The butt stock's metal "receiver" for the barrel / receiver portion is imbedded in composite after all, and it just looked like a weak point from a leverage and torque standpoint.
Incidentally, I still like Browning Auto 5 ugly just fine versus the looks of the Vinci.
Thanks!

Thanks for the report and I'm sure Benelli will sell a bucket load of their new, plastic, tacticool shotguns @ $1500 each.

They just won't sell me one.

As another poster stated, if I want another ugly shotgun, I'll just buy another Mossberg. Cheap, reliable and if you drop one in the mud you just say "oh well, it's a mossberg" and keep on going.

Jim

Man that was fast!
Phil,it sounds as if you are a civilized, well- mannered,
sensitive, and caring man. A man of good breeding and high standards.

Why,not just anyone would want to touch 'ol ugly!

At the first opportunity, you took her out, past your first impression,and had a great time.
You looked beyond her outer adornments, and were influenced when you saw her true beauty, the inner workings of a new awareness. The making of a real lady at work in your hands.

All of her actions, and movements,from at rest, to it's velocity along a straight line ... and to think, you were the external force.

Thanks Phil, for sharing your date and experience with us!

That was the first thing I thought of too, Mike! Great old song.
As far as the shotgun, Beneeli ought to fire the design team and send them back to their old jobs of designing pointy-toed shoes and bathroom fixtures.

That would be 'Cheech Marin'...

2poppa: your avatar makes you look like a perp...

only need looks for "wallguns" but it is more about how they shoot.

Bourjaily-
You mentioned the local "Scheels store" is your club out in North Dakota? We had two local Scheels in Minot ND when I lived out there in the 1980s. You mentioned the store and it brought back great memories to me....

That gun reminds me of the old saying, I'd ride a moped if I had to just hope that my friends don't see me.

Phil...
Retail news is not the best bloggable stuff.

Let's rename your bird dog...congrats for shooting the latest shotgun...

rrmont

I think the expression goes something like: "Fat girls are like mopeds. They may be fun to ride, but you just wouldn't want your friends to see you."

Benelli is beginning to make a new reputation for itself... unfortunately that reputation is for designing the most god awful ugly shotguns known to man. It started with the Nova which looked like something out of a low budget science fiction flick and has deteriorated into this butt ugly Vinci. I mean come on a Browning humpback, Savage or Baikal are things of beauty compared to the latest Benelli offerings. This reminds me of the $14,000 plastic rifle. Guns that function flawlessly are great but we still have to look at the damn things, at least try to pretty it up a little.

Any shotgun that I consider spending $1,500.00 for better have very nice wood.

Phil,
The scary part is I'm sure the boys at Benelli plan on selling a boat load of these things at $1500 a pop.

If the choice is blued steel, walnut, and an occasional jam, or this malfunction-free ugly stick, I'll gladly clear the jam, polish my stock, and move on.