Well the other day i bought a Benelli Nova, and to be honest, i wasn’t happy with it at all. The forearm locked up on my almost every time i shot, and the trigger was EXTREMELY hard to pull about one out of every four shots, i just think it was a bad gun, not the whole Nova line, just this gun. I’ve had and shot several pumps before with never having this problem, even though the salesman was telling me it was me, not the gun. While he’s telling me this, it’s jamming on him…. 
Anyway, the other gun i was considering when i bought the Nova, was the Stoeger Model 2000, so i ended up exchanging the Nova for the Stoeger, and so far i’m really pleased. I’ve only shot the Stoeger a couple times but it’s a ton lighter and i love the semi-auto feature.
Knowing that most of the critical parts are the same as the Benelli M1 and SBE is really comforting. I got the synthetic stock because the fit and finish on the wood wasn’t the best (it’s only $400 so i expected that to be honest).
I’m going through the break in period now, so we will see how she goes after that! 
