![]() Positioned between Benelli’s other brands offering inertia guns-affordable Stoeger, and top-of-the-line Benelli-the Affinity 3 hits the mark. It would be fine for recreational trap, skeet, or sporting clays, and definitely a good gun for pre-season clay practice before hunting starts. While we did find it easy to hit clays with-and it does have a recoil-absorbing pad-it’s much too light to make a serious target gun. It has the right feel in hand to make a good dove gun. It is light enough to carry for upland birds, or to take into the turkey woods, and the receiver is drilled and tapped for an optic, too. The Affinity 3 Waterfowl Elite isn’t just for ducks and geese. Our gun was well-put together and didn’t rattle or feel cheap at all. The furniture is dipped in OptiFade Marsh and the metal has a durable, gray-bronze Cerakote finish. The stock and forend feature pressed patterns along with twin curved accent lines that run from the forend through the receiver and the checkering panel on the stock, giving it a look all its own instead of aping Benelli styling. For its price point, the Affinity 3 a good-looking, well fit-and-finished gun. But that’s not a fair comparison, as it costs hundreds less than a Benelli. The Affinity 3 looks exactly like what it is-a trim inertia workhorse that’s good looking but without the niceties of a high-end Benelli. And, because inertia guns have no gas pistons, sleeves or action bars around the magazine tube, they can be lighter and slimmer up front, often giving them a lively feel. They will also keep working in adverse weather conditions that might stop a gas gun. Because inertia guns make no use of gas tapped from the barrel, as gas-operated guns do, they remain cleaner, longer and don’t stop working due to powder fouling. A return spring pushes the bolt forward at the end of its stroke and it picks up a shell from the carrier as it moves forward. As the rearward movement of the gun slows, the spring opens, throwing the bolt back and ejecting the fired shell. When the gun is fired and moves back under recoil, the bolt remains at rest, actually locking more tightly into the breech so the gun fires safely while also compressing the spring. The bolt consists of a rotary head and a heavy bolt body with a stout spring inside. The Affinity 3, like Benelli’s semiautos, works via the inertia principle. ![]()
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