ORIGINAL: Hunting the North
I walked by a brand new one sitting on the rack at Gander Mountain. The barrel was starting to form rust around it. I question how it will hold up after bringing it outside in the real weather. I know it is 1/3 the cost of a Benelli, but it also looks like it has 1/3 the quality of a Benelli.
That would make me question the quality of the Gander Mtn gun counter employees, not the gun itself. The finest $2500+ over/unders can rust on the rack if they are handled 20 times a day and never cleaned. Chances are that gun's been handled by dozens of grubby, oily and sweaty hands and never once oiled or even wiped down. My experience with my local Gander Mtn has been that they are a good place to look for scratch n dent guns on the racks because they don't do anything to maintain the rack guns. At Gander, if you want an unblemished gun, you either hope they have one in a box in back, or you special order.
Mike