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The Benelli is just over 8 lbs with 28" barrel. A Browning BPS will be near 8 lbs. A Remington 870 runs around 7.5. The Mossberg 500 about 7.25 and the discontinued Winchester 1300 varied between 6.5-7 lbs.
Weights will vary a bit depending on the exact model, stock, and barrel length. Most guys assume anything with a synthetic stock is lighter than wood. That is only true with the $600 kevlar stocks made for big game rifles by companies such as McMillan, MPI and Brown Precision. All of the cheap factory plastic stocks weigh just as much as wood, and very often more. Sometimes much more.
Balance has a lot to do with fooling people into believing one gun is lighter, or heavier than another. A gun with most of the weight in the butt feels lighter than it is.
Don't trust the specs listed on gun manufacturers websites. Most are right, or at least very close, but using my postal scales I've found several that were off quite a bit.
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