Benelli ETHOS Cordoba BE.S.T. Semi-Automatic Shotgun The Benelli Ethos Cordoba BE.S.T Shotgun delivers unmatched semiautomatic performance. Ported barrels team with the ComforTech recoil-reduction system to make shooting a pleasurable experience. The 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 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.

ComforTech was the first recoil-reduction system of its kind. By splitting the stock diagonally and utilizing shock-absorbing chevrons the entire stock was transformed into a recoil pad. The chevron size and location has been optimized on Comfort Tech 3. Further, Benelli engineers created a new cheek comb pad called Combtech, which greatly reduces facial impact and vibrations. When considering total recoil, vibrations, and impact to the face are often overlooked. Benelli realized that improvements could be made to the stock comb to reduce facial impact and developed the Combtech System. Combtech is simple but highly effective in reducing force transferred to the cheek area, resulting in a softer shooting gun that allows you to shoot better.