Benelli Super black eagle is best hunting shotgun you will find. It has slug barrel option too. If you drop in mud it will still shoot. I like my beretta A400 but it’s a poor hunting shotgun, if you drop in mud it will not shoot (I know too well). The benelli is recoil operated but biggest design advantage over Beretta is barrel and top of receiver comes off together as one piece then you flip bolt out and have access to everything easily. Flush mud out with starting fluid (or water if need to). Beretta is gas operated, barrel pulls out of top of receiver, receiver stays as one intact piece. You press on extractor to open a tight tolerance key hole to pull little bolt out to right then you can slide whole bolt out, but never have easy access to inside of receiver. I had a small stone get wedged in a400 and lost my morning of duck hunting trying to get it out, this wouldn’t happen with benelli because access is easy. You have to clean the A400 at least every 100 shots or will start jamming, the benelli will fire all season without cleaning once. I mistakenly sold my benelli to my brother because beretta fits me better. The amount of abuse duck and goose hunting he puts it through and still shoots is almost unbelievable. It only gets cleaned at end of season and dried out at end of day. I’ve never put my beretta through that much abuse and still run into issues especially if I don’t keep it clean.
