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Get a closer look at the Franchi Affinity 3 and 3.5, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

Get a closer look at the Franchi Affinity 3 Elite Upland, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

Get a closer look at the Franchi Affinity 3 Left-Handed 20-Gauge, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

Get a closer look at the Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 20-Gauge, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

Managing Editor Jon Draper discusses the Benelli Super Black Eagle 3, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

This year marks the inaugural offering of Franchi’s Companion Series celebrating the bond between gundog and hunter via detailed engravings on one of the company’s popular shotguns, with the Labrador Retriever featured on the Affinity 3 leading off the pending annual series.

American Hunter Executive Editor Jon Draper checks out the new 20-gauge Benelli Super Black Eagle 3, at a field-day event in West Virginia.

Built on the inertia-driven system that harnesses recoil to operate the action, the new Franchi Affinity 3 and 3.5 Elite shotguns are fast, slim and reliable. Stocks are adjustable for drop and cast, and barrels feature a Cerakote finish, lengthened forcing cone for better pattern density and a TrueGlo fiber-optic front sight.

The resurrected Browning A5 was one of the biggest "buzz products" of last year's SHOW Show, and for 2013 it receives an update that many devoted waterfowlers consider a must-have feature: a 3 1/2-inch chamber.