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width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">William Sullivan</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294833"><time datetime="2019-03-02T07:38:45-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 7:38 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I wonder if the extra weight of the target pistol didn’t agree with a two handed hold? Something to do with the inertial locking system? As soon as he switched to a one hand hold, it was reliable.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294833" data-commentid="3294833" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294833" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to William Sullivan" aria-label="Reply to William Sullivan">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3295065" class="comment odd alt depth-2 parent entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3295065" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e284815b57032db64c060f1c49ba390c?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e284815b57032db64c060f1c49ba390c?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Dogwalker</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3295065"><time datetime="2019-03-03T02:10:07-07:00">March 3, 2019 at 2:10 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Had it been an Inertia failure, he would have had a failure to eject, but the ejection was very strong and consistent. Probably, due to the right-handed grips, he inadvertently hit the slide-stop lever during the recoil, infact the gun didn’t fail to feed (like in the round hitting the ramp and being stuck there), but simply held open.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3295065" data-commentid="3295065" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3295065" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Dogwalker" aria-label="Reply to Dogwalker">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3295142" class="comment even depth-3 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3295142" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">William Sullivan</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3295142"><time datetime="2019-03-03T08:21:15-07:00">March 3, 2019 at 8:21 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Good thinking! I wonder how sensitive the slide stop is?</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3295142" data-commentid="3295142" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3295142" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to William Sullivan" aria-label="Reply to William Sullivan">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="comment-3294855" class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 parent entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3294855" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ba11d3c62457a6c70d418dba5c9087ff?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ba11d3c62457a6c70d418dba5c9087ff?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">TestBacon</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294855"><time datetime="2019-03-02T09:26:00-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 9:26 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Just a thought, but since the guns use an inertia action don’t they need the entire pistol to recoil a certain amount? That would explain why why the MP3S, with it longer barrel and extra weight, preferred 1 handed shooting? I wonder if gorilla gripping the M76 and really trying to fight the recoil would effect its reliability.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294855" data-commentid="3294855" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294855" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to TestBacon" aria-label="Reply to TestBacon">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3294859" class="comment even depth-2 parent entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3294859" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">William Sullivan</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294859"><time datetime="2019-03-02T09:45:54-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 9:45 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>That would be very interesting. There aren’t many pistols of this type to compare it to. Maybe the opposite of limp wristing?</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294859" data-commentid="3294859" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294859" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to William Sullivan" aria-label="Reply to William Sullivan">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3294870" class="comment odd alt depth-3 parent entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3294870" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a78fc4984e3473b4e23e25a874c8554a?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a78fc4984e3473b4e23e25a874c8554a?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="https://twoalpha.blogspot.com/" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Matisse Enzer</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294870"><time datetime="2019-03-02T10:47:42-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 10:47 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>That was the speculation I read on another discussion of this pistol: that this action requires the whole gun to be free to move a bit. I can imagine an experiment of locking it in a vice (to reduce to near zero the amount of travel) and seeing if that causes 100% failure to cycle.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294870" data-commentid="3294870" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294870" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Matisse Enzer" aria-label="Reply to Matisse Enzer">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3294884" class="comment even depth-4 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3294884" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e026fda9cc1fa03368ed1a9c7b4e4a30?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">William Sullivan</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294884"><time datetime="2019-03-02T11:33:13-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 11:33 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Ian- Any thoughts on this?</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294884" data-commentid="3294884" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294884" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to William Sullivan" aria-label="Reply to William Sullivan">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="comment-3295066" class="comment odd alt depth-2 parent entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3295066" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e284815b57032db64c060f1c49ba390c?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e284815b57032db64c060f1c49ba390c?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Dogwalker</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3295066"><time datetime="2019-03-03T02:11:07-07:00">March 3, 2019 at 2:11 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Had it been an Inertia failure, he would have had a failure to eject, but the ejection was very strong and consistent. Probably, due to the right-handed grips, he inadvertently hit the slide-stop lever during the recoil, infact the gun didn’t fail to feed (like in the round hitting the ramp and being stuck there), but simply held open.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3295066" data-commentid="3295066" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3295066" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Dogwalker" aria-label="Reply to Dogwalker">Reply</a></div> </article> <ul class="children"> <li id="comment-3295111" class="comment even depth-3 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3295111" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c5f099bd8b1c0546298d71dbdf2f528?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c5f099bd8b1c0546298d71dbdf2f528?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">bp</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3295111"><time datetime="2019-03-03T06:00:11-07:00">March 3, 2019 at 6:00 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I believe you are correct, my apologies for thinking failure to feed.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3295111" data-commentid="3295111" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3295111" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to bp" aria-label="Reply to bp">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="comment-3294903" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3294903" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c5f099bd8b1c0546298d71dbdf2f528?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c5f099bd8b1c0546298d71dbdf2f528?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">bp</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3294903"><time datetime="2019-03-02T12:28:40-07:00">March 2, 2019 at 12:28 pm</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Even when malfunctioning the slide locked open on an empty magazine, which to me suggests a failure to feed rather than a failure of any inertial unlocking which presumably would be more along the lines of short stroking.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3294903" data-commentid="3294903" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3294903" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to bp" aria-label="Reply to bp">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-3295118" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3295118" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0829f9225280d108d5dd4bf7caf92cfe?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0829f9225280d108d5dd4bf7caf92cfe?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Strongarm</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3295118"><time datetime="2019-03-03T06:27:21-07:00">March 3, 2019 at 6:27 am</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Seemingly, two hand hold prevents muzzle rise slightly for the whole pistol mass but the slide stop lever’s through weakened slide stop spring as resulting to catch the slide at its rearmost travel. Streghtening the slide stop spring will stop the malfunction. There it seems no relation with the operating system of the pistol.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3295118" data-commentid="3295118" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3295118" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Strongarm" aria-label="Reply to Strongarm">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-3783343" class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1 entry-content"> <article id="div-comment-3783343" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/45c06453758d762fa93f0d944a28c9bf?s=50&d=blank&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/45c06453758d762fa93f0d944a28c9bf?s=100&d=blank&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo' height='50' width='50' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">DAVID STORMONT</b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#comment-3783343"><time datetime="2021-10-28T21:00:11-07:00">October 28, 2021 at 9:00 pm</time></a> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Target pistols can be extremely finicky about how they are held, plus what ammo they are fed and occasionally will perform badly for no discernable reason at all. This generally does NOT apply to 1911 style pistols, especially custom ones, but is one reason .38 special autoloading wadcutter guns like the S&W model 52 are notorious for unusual malfunctions including doubling and full magazine dumps aka full auto for five rounds.</p> </div> <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-3783343" data-commentid="3783343" data-postid="24587" data-belowelement="div-comment-3783343" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to DAVID STORMONT" aria-label="Reply to DAVID STORMONT">Reply</a></div> </article> </li> </ol> <div id="respond" class="comment-respond"> <h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">Leave a Reply <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/benelli-b76-vs-mp3s-at-the-range/#respond" style="display:none;">Cancel reply</a></small></h3><form action="https://www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" class="comment-form" novalidate><p 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