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Perhaps someone other than Beretta will attempt to revive the floating chamber system or the short recoil system. Browning attempted to bring back the short recoil system in its ill-fated A500R. However, the gun was very short-lived owing to its ugly design and mechanical problems. Recently Benelli came out with their radically different Vinci model. This rather unusual looking shotgun uses a different inertia system, eliminating the action spring that is usually found in the butt-stock. Being of modular design, the Vinci contains its entire bolt mechanism, including the action spring, in the receiver. The buttstock contains no mechanical parts. It is an ingenious system but not entirely new. The earlier mentioned Automatico VB by Bernardelli employed a similar system. It was not exactly like the Vinci, but similar in application.

The modern gas-operated autoloader is a far cry from the early versions. Today they are beautifully put-together and extremely reliable. But as long as they are dependent on all that hardware to make the gun cycle, they will never have that desired “between-the-hands” feel, and they will always be, just a bit, even if tiny bit, more susceptible to stoppage.