″++PERAZZI MX8 12 GAUGE″

Everything about the MX8 is geared to strength, long life, and excellent handling, no matter which shooting discipline it is designed for. A solid action block machined from a strong steel forging forms the basis of this gun. It is a low-profile action with the barrels hinged on extremely sturdy stub pins, and with a particularly strong lock-up. A strong, two-pronged bolt emerges through slots at the sides of the standing breech to engage with bites in the barrels just below the ejectors and curved slots in the sides of the barrel monobloc mate with projections in the action walls. The action block of the gun is slightly wider than many, in order to accommodate Perazzi's famous drop-out trigger group. All of the firing mechanism except the firing pins is contained in this group, which is removed by pushing the safety thumbpiece forward beyond the normal "fire" position. Leaf springs are used rather than the usual coils, to give particularly crisp trigger pulls. The barrel set is built on the monobloc system, and its quality is one of the prides of Perazzi. The quality of the steel and the way in which it is finished, both internally and externally, is quite exceptional. Chambers are chrome lined, but the main lengths of the bores are not.