Well of coarse there are plenty of people that are happy with benelli firearms, or they would not be so popular. But I am with you. I had a SBE and the "tuning fork" shaped piece that pushes back on the spring in the stock broke three times in 2 years. Not only would they not replace itat not cost to me but they could not even find one for me to buy. When I did finally find them they cost about $60 for that little piece. I fixed it and sold it as soon as I could. Even when it did work the action would catch the empty shells before they were free of the gun. It maybe was like your in that it did not seem to shoot straight either. I have talked to several other people that feel this way about benelli.

Now with that said I do have a benelli nova pump that I do like very much. All of the complaints I have heard have been about the automatics that they brag about so much.