As good as a Benelli? | franchi affinity 3 |

[@sebathadah1559]

Hey man I got one two and I freaking LOVE IT! I got the one with the wood furniture and the nickel finish. Bolt as smooth as silk and weight as light as light as a feather. Looking forward to fall upland bird season.

[@benellifelli]

Awesome looking shotgun. I too spent my stimulus check on a turkey shotgun. I purchased the TriStar Viper G2 Turkey with the steady grip stock in .410. I own a couple M2’s for turkey and love the steady grip stocks for turkey. I also love watching all your videos. Keep I’m coming. Thanks Now, go bust that turkey!

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Prostaffer Derek young is looking at that as well! Let us know what you think!! Also thank you for the constant support!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@buckeye6256]

Blue Collar Outdoors USA The TriStar Viper G2 .410 is awesome. I put a Indian Creek choke on mine.

[@kolt4509]

Had a stoeger M3500 for 4 years and upgraded to the Franchi affinity 3 elite. Wow what a difference in the guns

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I agree!

[@Logan-zi4vx]

I’ve got the stoeger 3500 and have been looking to upgrade. Gonna check this one out soon. My stoeger has failed me a couple times, mainly when it gets cold

[@ryanharkins9383]

Very versatile. I use it for everything. I have had that same gun since I think 2016. I love it

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Yessir it’s a great one for sure! Never had a single issue

[@-lovefromnh]

Thank you stimulus check! Sure looks good. Let's see how she patterns! Pumped!! Love from NH.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Bout to pop that pattern cherry as we speak!!

[@-lovefromnh]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA hell yeah! Have fun. I'm waiting... Later I am headed to scout some land in VT. That's where I will most likely be opening morning.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I dig it!! She patterned good!

[@-lovefromnh]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA out to what distance?

[@MH-gy6qv]

Just bought an Affinity 3 Elite 20ga in Marsh today with my stimulus check. Can't wait to get it home and shoot it.

[@jeffreylocke8808]

Affinity Elite is cera-kote covered and in Bottom Land or Mossy Oak.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

That is correct

[@BrockLowell]

I was going to give you a hard time but I also bought a TC pro hunter turkey 12ga for my son and I used the Stimulus check lol.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

How often can a man/woman say the government bought them a firearm.... It HAD to be done!! Plus it’s for all y’all were trying to offer as many guns/chokes/load combos as we can for y’all!!

[@collinevans5151]

Owned a franchi affinity 3, just went Benelli Super black eagle 3 and the Benelli 100% outperforms the franchi. Especially feel and how it shoulders.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I have the exact opposite opinion but that’s the beauty of the outdoors! Everyone has their taste

[@automandan]

Yep gotta love the stimulus check I also used my stimulus to purchase a gun however my was a Stoeger m3000 however I will be swapping out the butt pad for a limb saver and putting a comb raiser pad on to protect my cheek when I fire it. I took my Stoeger out today and tried some 3 inch magnum duck loads Add I felt every bit of those shells it beat The living pisses Out of my left shoulder. So needless to say I will be doing some modifications to my Shot gun

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Boise City auto sports I do love my stoeger m3500, but this affinity is gonna challenge her in all aspects!!

[@MadeofSpareParts24]

I feel so dumb asking this but can you shoot slugs through it? Minus the choke i couldn't see why not. Thanks!

[@littlejohnny210]

Any Italian boom stick is a good fit in your hand!!

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

🤣🤣

[@heathalford4721]

How much nicer is it than the Stoeger? Local dealer told me the fit and finish gets nicer from Stoeger to Franchi to Benelli. He said he sells more Stoeger or Benelli but all were good

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Heath Alford time will tell!! Let me put her through the paces then I will do an in depth review & a comparison!!

[@kykrazy6050]

Heath Alford...Save a couple hundred bucks and get the Stoeger. The finish is about all that's different between the two. The functionality of the Stoeger is just as reliable. Take the money you save and invest in ammo & choke tubes.

[@heathalford4721]

BCO that’s fair enough KY Krazy prolly good advice

[@baseballboy2215]

Going to add my 2 cents... Ive owned a stoeger m3000 which i had problems ejecting after around 250rds of hardcore waterfowling. I then had to replace the ejector on the bolt with a benelli m2 part which solved the problem. Sold the gun to a buddy and after being rebuilt works flawlessly. Great gun for the price which you can find on sale for around 400$ with a rebate around the holidays. I then upgraded to a franchi affinity 3.5, fit and finish of that gun is much higher quality than the stoeger. Franchi is much more ergonomic in the hand and more balanced and is flat out a much higher quality and built of better internal components. Still own my franchi and shoot it time to time, then i came across a benelli sbe3 for a steal at a local store that was closing. The benelli is my go to and just fits better than any gun I’ve ever shot before, however the quality between the franchi and the benelli is much more comparable with small noticeable upgrades to the benelli. The difference in quality between the franchi and stoeger is much greater, and you can clearly tell which is cheaper built. Benelli and franchi guns are both made in Italy to much higher specs than the stoeger which is made in turkey. From experience it almost feels like you’re shooting a log with the stoeger it feels much heavier, bulky, and just not as high quality when comparing to the Italian made guns which feel sleek slender and flat out better. The reliability is better from the benelli and franchi in my personal experience as I’ve never had a problem or jam, and i had to rebuild the stoeger after only a case of shells the ejector was worn out. If you have the money buy the franchi, its built better and is much closer to benelli quality out of a more budget friendly shotgun.

[@Sg16-]

#1 benelli super black eagle 3 but the franchi is a nice gun as well do a review when you break it in

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

So far I’d rather run that affinity 3 over the SB3

[@garyk76]

A franchi is a good rabbit shotguns Is only thing i ever used them for but liked them for that

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I love mine!

[@denismoss7547]

I like Franchi Affinity One🔥🔥🔥Hunter from Russia

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

They’re great guns! Hope you subscribe and checkout all our content!

[@denismoss7547]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA ok!

[@jeffreylocke8808]

APEX TSS makes even a 20 gauge a 80 yards pass shooting goose load.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

That Apex is insane 100% idk if I’d do that personally but I honestly don’t doubt it’d work lol

[@jeffreylocke8808]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA Old time writer Francis Sell used a three inch capable 20 gauge double barrel shotgun and lead shot for pass shooting geese to 65 and 70 yards away. He used 30 inch barrels on it. He was ahead of his time.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I don’t doubt it, nor do I doubt apex making it even more plausible I just wouldn’t do it, rather work em in the spread but that’s just me I would be interested to see what a pattern would look like at that distance... We can do it 100%!

[@finleyfarms626]

Man I won’t to c how it shots I’m looking to by me a shot gun 20 Ga

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Her first pattern test link is below! She’s a shooter man!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/faWreHqoqtSiiKM

[@jimp9351]

Well, you’re giving your experience now let me give you mine. I purchased a Franchi affinity 3 20 gauge At my local gun shop, hunters headquarters in Greenwood South Carolina. I got the gun home and I could not get the forearm to fit against the receiver. I took it back to the place I purchased it the next day and I took it into the back room and said they had had trouble with three other Franchi shotguns. They kept it in the back room a long time and when they brought it back out they said “OK, it’s fixed“. I took the gun back to my farm and shot it about nine times with clay pigeon two and three-quarter inch loads. The forearm once again separated from the receiver. I called a friend of mine who is a Benelli expert and we tried to fix it ourselves. We could not get it to fit correctly always leaving about 1/8 inch gap between the forearm and the receiver. The next day I called Franchi customer service. After giving the gentleman, who was very nice and understanding, the serial number I told him the same story I just gave you. I told him I thought I needed a new forearm and he said “fine, I’ll put you on the list. But, there is a significant back order on the forearms and I cannot tell you when you will get yours.” I wonder why there is a significant back order on the Franchi forearms? I ended up purchasing a Bonelli 20 gauge M2 turkey performance edition. I wish I had not purchased the Franchi Jim Phillips, M.D.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Man that’s some big money on that turkey rig lol Mines been money maybe it’s a 20 gauge issue, moose loves his 20 gauge as well so we have yet to see any issue yet

[@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595]

1. Did the forearm ever separate from the gun while firing? 2. Was the gun otherwise mechanically reliable?

[@jimp9351]

@@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595 No,it did not and yes it was mechanically reliable. I was and am just uncomfortable with this.

[@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595]

@@jimp9351 Thanks.

[@brianruiz5261]

how’s the recoil I have a 20 gauge Franchi and want to move up to a 12 gauge.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Recoil is smooth as you’d expect on an inertia driven system semi-auto

[@Mr_Mosley_yt]

Curious on your opinion a few years later? I have the exact same gun to a T and have missed many groups of ducks because I pull up on em and just get a click, have had it happen many times while shooting trap too, sometimes it’s a light primer strike sometimes it doesn’t hit primer at all, just happened to me again yesterday when patterning turkey loads reassuring me that it will not be in my hands in the turkey woods anymore lol

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Crazy mine has been rocking solid, not one issue at all and it’s been dropped in the duck holes, muddy feeds, rainstorms you name it it’s been through it all Have you tore it apart and cleaned it all?

[@Mr_Mosley_yt]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA never fully taken like trigger group out or anything, just watched a vid on how to do that and plan on doing it this afternoon and spraying and wiping everything down really good, probably on my end tbh now that I say that lol but it was doing it pretty early on into me owning it when I used to shoot trap, if I take the shell out and wipe the bolt face down with my tshirt it’ll go bang the next few times for sure but idk what that would be, I’ve had broke firing pins before(in a brand new tristar) and they won’t hit the primer at all no matter what so I don’t think it’s a broke pin

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

@Mr_Mosley_yt keep us updated.! May just need a good cleaning!

[@Mr_Mosley_yt]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA will do I’ll let you know as soon as I feel if it made a difference, if cleaning it don’t work and a new pin is expensive I’ll be looking for the next best thing lol

[@robbierobbins5528]

I love mine best feeling turkey gun ever shot

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Yess!!!!!

[@spontaneous1200]

looking to get one.......I'm a left handed shooter, can I shoot a righty without being smacked by shells?

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

You know that’s one thing I have not tested lol I wouldn’t advise it but your call

[@spontaneous1200]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA so limited if I can't use right hand guns. Just curious if the shell would grace my face. I shoot a RH rifles w/o issues. Thank you sir.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I have no clue I’d have to see

[@scottfrederick8299]

@@spontaneous1200 You can shoot right handed shotguns left handed. My son did it for years until I bought him a left handed gun. The ejected hulls will not graze your face. However, with dirty burning ammo you will get a small trace of powder/powder residue blowing into your eye. (Something to consider if you wear contacts or on a windy day) Just make sure the safty can be switched from right to left if you choose to shoot a right handed gun as a lefty.

[@Jbellma54]

Do you ever feel like the 26” barrel is too long of a barrel in the woods?

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

I never did no but I only use this for waterfowl now I hunt turkeys with 410’s or 28’s

[@kykrazy6050]

Nice rig. SHOOT A BIGGER TARGET.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

How many times we gonna dance round this idea guy?

[@adirondackrebel5215]

I see you talk about hunting in ny in a few videos is that where youre based?

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Yes in WNY

[@Moudmenn]

Hows it hodlig up any failure? Do u recommend it?

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

We have tons of tests and reviews with it! Check out the whole playlist of just this gun here! kzbin.info/aero/PLrAf50OXOGjN3CYRtZL4W2SUOUU45I2u1

[@joshuaeck2712]

Very nice what that run?

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Joshua Eck Donald picked up the tab 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@mobeefus9707]

I want to learn to goose hunt.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

We’re just learning ourselves but man is it a good time! And they taste amazing!

[@forcemajeur.5138]

Wanting this to add a 20 gauge for teal and ducks. that thing looks so much like my SBE3 when they're both in bottomlands, I wish you could find a Franchi 3 in 20 with max 5 or something. I'm overloaded on bottomlands. lol. How did it do duck hunting? 26" barrel sort of isn't my favorite.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

It performed flawlessly and check out the pattern series with it very impressive We also added a 20 gauge affinity 3 to both the turkey & waterfowl pattern series as well

[@forcemajeur.5138]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA Yeh the 26" barrel isn't enough to dissuade me as I need a semi 20. I just don't want more and more bottomlands lol, even though they are my favorite pattern. I want to switch it up. I know they make the 12 in a diff Camo pattern and used to make the 20 in it. I'll get that or another Benelli eventually and just put a tighter choke on it if its a 26" barrel.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Why would you put a tighter choke on it if it’s a 26 inch?

[@forcemajeur.5138]

@@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA I'm too used to 28" barrels. Keep the pattern more similar to what I'm running on 12's in 28". Whenever I get a 20 I'll pattern it. I'm sure pattern master or kick's makes some duck chokes for them.

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

They do and we have yet to see a difference in pattern performance between barrel lengths in our setups

[@the45er]

ANY shotgun with a tight enough choke will be a "good" turkey gun. Since shotgun "fit" is the most important aspect for being able to "hit" with it, there is no "good, better, best" because it depends on the person's anatomy. What makes a shotgun "better" than another shotgun is whether or not it is dependable over THOUSANDS of rounds of ammunition. Both Yildiz and Perazzi are both over/under shotguns. Put 30,000 rounds though each one and you'll quickly find which one is "better".

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Tighter Choke constriction doesn’t make for a better pattern all the time we have patterned over a 100 combos now and that is the biggest fact we have debunked You have to find what each gun likes for both true constriction & loads Also durability is a given for a shotgun but we also look at how picky a setup is with choke/loads that is a big factor

[@bigshowthe-tn-redneck2471]

I'm looking at this gun n the stoger m3000

[@BlueCollarOutdoorsUSA]

Nice!!