Ημιαυτ. καραμπίνα BENELLI ETHOS CORDOBA BE.S.T

Sporting a sleek profile and equipped with the latest Benelli technology, our ETHOS Cordoba BE.S.T. shotguns deliver unmatched semiautomatic performance. Ported barrels team with our ComforTech® recoil-reduction system to make shooting a pleasurable experience. Our proven Inertia Driven® System ensures flawless reliability in any weather when cycling anything from heavy 3-inch 12-ga. magnums to the lightest 7⁄8 ounce loads. Each has a beveled loading port to promote fast reloading. A large bolt handle and enhanced trigger guard aid shooters wearing gloves. Benelli Surface Treatment (BE.S.T.) on external metal surfaces offers a level of protection from rust and corrosion that competing surface treatments can only aspire to.

BE.S.T. (Benelli Surface Treatment) is a new proprietary finishing technology developed by engineers and scientists at Benelli’s manufacturing headquarters in Urbino Italy. Spending more than a decade developing BE.S.T., this coating provides corrosion and abrasion resistance that is superior to any other firearm finish on the market. 

It is a hybrid Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) technology that applies a protective coating to parts. PVD and PECVD processes utilize electricity, radio frequencies, and plasma in a high vacuum environment to deposit a solid coating that precisely and uniformly covers the treated parts.

While these technologies have been used in many industries for some time, applying them to a shotgun barrels had never been practical until Benelli’s breakthrough. Typical deposition processes operate at high temperatures. Treating a shotgun barrel in such an environment would ruin the ballistic properties of the barrel and weaken the strength of the barrel extension. Benelli’s engineers created a process that completes the process at low temperature, maintaining the perfect ballistics of our Crio-treated barrels and the heat-treated strength of the barrel extension.

Currently available in 2020 on select Super Black Eagle 3 and ETHOS models, and 2021 ETHOS Cordoba BE.S.T.

Quickly Find Your Target
A wide broadway sight channel on the carbon-fiber rib of the ETHOS Cordoba BE.S.T. works with fiber-optic and mid-rib beads to guide your eye to the target quickly.

Shell View
Benelli's Shell View system has small windows in the magazine tube that are visible through a slot in the forend, enabling you to see how many shells are loaded in the tube. A red follower/indicator in the picture shows there are four shells in the magazine tube.

Ported Barrel
The ported barrel helps to minimize recoil and muzzle jump.

The Cordoba is Benelli’s first 28-gauge shotgun and is also offered in 20- and 12-gauge (our test model). It is only available in Benelli’s BE.S.T. finish, a high-tech coating that is a hybrid of Physical Vapor Deposition and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition. Essentially, Benelli figured out how to combine a few existing vapor technologies and apply them to shotgun components at low temperature, instead of the extremely high temperatures typically required, which would destroy barrel accuracy. BE.S.T is used on the barrel, barrel extension, bolt, bolt handle, extended chokes, safety, stud slings, trigger, and trigger pin. Benelli guarantees the treatment with a 25-year warranty.

Gauge: 28, 20, 12 (tested)
Action: Semi-Auto
Capacity: 4+1 (2+1 28-gauge)
Chamber: 3-inch
Barrel type: Benelli Crio (ported)
Barrel length: 28 (tested), 30 inches
Chokes: Extended (C, IC, M, IM, F)
Front sight: Red fiber-optic
Length: 49 inches
LOP: 14 inches
Trigger pull: 6.1 pounds
Overall weight: 6.5 pounds