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Just got done with my first duck hunt with the Benelli SBE II.
Super Harsh Conditions and the gun shot perfect after it was submerged for a couple of minutes until we found it. It definitely gets the thumbs up. I would highly recommend it for you dedicated shotgunners

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If it got submerged, then you should clean and oil it.

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It's been cleaned. but it shot great after being submerged. I'm now a believer.

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I thinks it one of the best Semi Auto Shotguns on the market.

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What the heck are you doing dropping your gun in the water?

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That is a goodquestion, poor gun.[:@]

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My SBE I went for a swim one day, and it also functioned fine after I shook the water out of it. If you hunt around swamps or out of small boats, these things may happen...

Doug

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If the water was poured out, any semi could handle that. The point where it might fail would be when it started rusting just like any semi. Or freezing up in the gun. You drop your shotgun where I hunt in MD, you better run back to the truck to do a field cleaning and oiling and then do it again. That salt water will setup rust in minuties. If the SBE can survive Assateague Island and be dropped in the water and still hunt all day, I wouldn't buy anything else.

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I've dropped my SBE1 into Gulf Coast salty marsh muck on more than one occasion, sloshed the mud out in the salty water and shot it for the rest of the morning without a hitch. Of course I cleaned it out well and CLP'd it when I got back home several hours later. No signs of any corrosion 3 years later. These shotguns are as easy to clean as an O/U or SxS.

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You know, I am a duck hunter. And when I hear stories like this, it makes me think. SBE owners are either clumsy, or like telling big ones. I know about 30-40 duck hunters and haven't heard of so many people submerging their guns. Must be a SBE owner thing.

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Try running an airboat across 6" of water to get back to your hole. Occasionally you hit reefs and go from 20 to 0 mph pretty quick!

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that makes ever less sense then. Don't you secure your guns somewhere? Don't you have them in a case?

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Yeah.

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Sorry, guess you'd have to be there. If you've haven't experienced it, you would probablynever understand.

Picture this: 20-30mph to a dead stop, flat bottom boats with decks 2-3" above the water line, everything goes out. Coolers, caps, dekes, etc... We're strapped in pretty good and the guns are velcroed to a rack in so-called waterproof cases but when they are 'launched' into the mud at speed, let's just say that most 'waterproof' cases are not 'impact waterproof'. They may take a little rain on them riding in the bed of a truck but they don't hold up well in these circumstances. Not what the cases are designed for I'm sure but lesser shotguns have not fared so well when they took the dunking.

I'll stick with Benelli for my extreme condition guns.

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Kelbro, I apologzie if I sounded like I was ridiculing you, I didn't understand the conditions which you were hunting in. Now I do.

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No probs here man. Very exhiliarating way to hunt to say the least! Not for the faint of heart and I'm getting too old for it LOL.

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Those itialian pieces of junk?! Humor there. I was given an m2 as a wedding gift and am completly amazed with its unbelievable reliability. Astounding. I keep hearing about the new remington CTI gas operated shotgun, wonderful I am sure, but it will NEVER compare to a benelli in the action. I am even a remington fan and own a few, but they just cant compare. EJ