You may not like the weighty pull, however, if you’re sensitive about triggers.

The heavy trigger never bothered me, except when I took the gun turkey hunting, when I managed to fill a tag with it anyway. How the Gun Performed Handling and Ergonomics The Nova shrugged it off and was no worse for the wear save a slight road rash on the plastic receiver. That fall would have gouged or scarred any other gun. During the years I had it, I dropped it in the mud and, on one occasion, onto some large chunks of riprap. In addition to the tests we conducted at Pintail Hunting Club, I owned and shot that early Nova as my primary duck gun for several years, and I took it turkey hunting a time or two as well. The trigger broke at 7.14 pounds, which is on the heavy side, but a definite improvement over my old Nova (one of the very early ones) that had a trigger close to 10 pounds. Some heft makes a gun like the Nova easy to shoot, too. The gun weighed 7.7 pounds, and that weight is a good thing in a fixed-breech gun that otherwise doesn’t offer any recoil reduction.

2s with a Modified choke, which is about what you should expect from that choke/load combination. Our test gun shot slightly high, and it recorded a 66-percent pattern with 3-inch, 1 ¼-ounce Federal No. We weighed it, measured, and checked the trigger pull. We tested the gun for both point of impact and to see how it patterned with hunting loads at 35 yards. We tested the Nova on the clouds of teal at the Pintail Hunting Club in the mornings, and shot it at the lodge clays range. Combine that with a forend that extends all the way back to the front of the receiver where it’s easy for anyone to cycle, and you get a very smooth-running pump.

The other advantage of the rotary bolt is that they contribute to an extremely slick, fast pump stroke. Since the rotary bolt locks directly into the barrel, it requires neither a barrel extension nor a steel receiver, which is one reason the Nova can have its polymer stock/receiver. Like Benelli’s famous inertia guns, the Nova has a rotary bolt. The Nova’s one-piece stock and receiver set it apart from any shotgun ever made. The unit is molded around a steel cage that reinforces the frame without adding excessive weight. It was made for law enforcement originally before hunting models were developed for the U.S.

Barrel Length: 24-, 26- and 28-inch (tested) barrelīenelli introduced the Nova in the mid-1990s.

Barrel: 28 inches, stepped rib, red front bead.

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