Posted June 6, 2017 12:33 am by Comments

By David Tong

Benelli B-80 Semi-Automatic Pistol

by David Tong
The Benelli B-80 Semi-Automatic pistol was a unique design that can be categorized today as a collector’s item.

Benelli B-80 Semi-Automatic Pistol

Ammoland Shooting SportsU.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- I must admit that I am a bit of a sucker for unique gun designs and mechanisms, so when I recently had the opportunity to fire one of these somewhat rare Benelli B80 pistols, I did not hesitate.

A good friend of mine had bought one long ago when they were new, and what I recalled about it was that it was fairly big and heavy for a pistol with a single-column eight-round magazine, and had a “Luger-like” rather sloped grip angle that was a bit off-putting. The B80 we are shooting today is a variant of the classic Benelli B76 handgun.

Fast forward nearly thirty years, and another example became available to actually shoot. This one was chambered in the 7.65X21mm cartridge, the original round Georg Luger created while he was a designer with Deutsches Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin for the Model 1900 Parabellum pistol that bears his name.

<img src="https://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Benelli-B80-disassembled-600×487.jpg?b6ca47" alt="Benelli B-80 Semi-Automatic Pistol Field Stripped" width="600" height="487" srcset="https://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Benelli-B80-disassembled-600×487.jpg …Read the Rest

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