Video: Franchi Instinct LX

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posted on February 1, 2019
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With its Schnabel fore-end, beautiful AA-Grade satin walnut furniture and engraved color-case-hardened receiver, the new Franchi Instinct LX over/under is a shotgun of class, as well as a great sportsman’s shotgun. Available in 12-gauge with gold pheasant and duck inlay on the action and 20-gauge inlayed with a quail and dove, the Instinct LX sports a vented rib, auto-ejectors, a fiber-optic front sight and smooth handling ergonomics. And it comes with a good-looking set of three black extended choke tubes. MSRP: $1,699; franchiusa.com.

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