MikeF

The R1 is hands down the best thought out semiautomatic hunting rifle currently in production. It is also the best handling semiautomatic deer rifle in the world in my opinion. There are a lot of reasons on paper to like this gun. Benelli needs to get their act together on this gun, if they would spend a little more effort, they would have a true winner. I want another one, but not before I hear better reports. I will check back from time to time. cheers. MikeF

I am puzzled, I thought that the scope as it was attached to the barrel should maintain some reasonable zero on dissasembly and reassembly. The gun I had was a puzzle, it went back to Benelli once and they provided a new index point for the internal nut. This did not help. I am willing to try one again as I love the engineering design, I would just hope that they would have found the bugs and fixed them. I don't dissasemble my bolt guns as they can be cleaned from the breach. I normally do not clean them period other than to wipe with oil both external and internal after the season. I admit that the Benelli I took apart and cleaned each time I shot it. I probably should not have, but it was in my opinion inconsistent.

I had an early R1 in 30-06 with the 20 inch barrel, the gun functioned perfectly but was inconsistent in its Point of Impact. When disassembled for cleaning and reassembled it would shoot 9-10 inches off. The tightness of the external foreend screw that held the wood fore end on also effected POI. I could walk the bullets up the target by tightning the fore end. I sold it but liked the guns handling over a BAR. Have there been any internal changes in the last two years that would warrent me trying another one in .308?