Kiwi_Shooter

Thanks for that- light loads are not all my high volume shooting mind you , so I am still going to go with the cordoba I think. But has anyone run a Benelli on a diet of the lighter stuff, or is it just a waste of time?

Hi everyone. I have just worn out a 1100 remington, after about 35,000 rounds of hard work and am looking at getting a cordoba, mainly because it is advertised to take the very high volume shooting we do down here. Most years I fire about 10,000 rds, most of which are at game. One of the jobs I do is shoot birds in a local vine yard. Although blasting a starling or blackbird with a 12 gauge may seem like overkill, its very challenging shooting, and besides the ammo is free. This gets you ready for pigeon shooting where you can fire 600 rds in a day! Anyway, the ammo that the vineyard gives me for free is usually 7/8 oz skeet loads, and occassionally a "orchard load" which is 7/8's of #9. Will a Benelli SBE or cordoba cycle reliably this ammo? All the blurb talks about field loads, but says nothing about light target loads. Hope you can help, if the answer is yes, I will be posting a in depth review of the cordoba!