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SHOT Show 2012 Bonus Podcast: Benelli USA's Joe Coogan

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🗓️ 18 January 2012

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

On this special SHOT Show podcast: Benelli USA's Joe Coogan explaining some of their new shotgun offerings.

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0:00.0

We're here with Joe Coogan from Benelli.

0:02.2

Now, Joe, exactly, what is your title?

0:04.3

Tom, I'm the brand marketing manager for Bonelli, USA. Okay. And, of course, a lot of people know you from all the TV work you've done, hunting all over the place. I mean, it's not really a job, but it's a sure is a good gig. Well, I have to say, I can't complain too much about it. The show is called Manelli on Assignment.

0:22.9

And basically it's doing the things in the field with the writers, the photographers, and the editors that I've come to know in all of the years that I was involved with magazine work and whatnot.

0:35.1

Right, because you and I knew each other way back doing magazine work together.

0:38.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:39.4

So what we do is we'll go to the field.

0:42.4

We'll field test one of the Benelli USA products, which includes not just Benelli, but also Stoger,

0:49.0

Franke, which is what we're focused on here today.

0:51.6

Right.

0:52.9

Stoger Air Guns, and Stoger, Stoger Air Guns, Uberti, and, of course, Fronky.

0:59.4

Lots of different guns to play with.

1:01.1

So what are we shown here?

1:02.1

What's Frankie been up to?

1:04.1

Franke has, we've taken Fronky through what we call a rebranding.

1:09.2

Basically, we're breathing new life into the brand with

1:12.4

some new product and we've got two over and under shotguns in what we call the instinct line.

1:18.9

And then the semi-auto is an inertia-driven gun that we call the affinity. All of these guns

1:26.1

are available in 12 and 20 gauge.

1:28.3

Okay. Now, a lot of people say Franci, and you hear it a lot of different ways, but Franke is the correct way.

1:34.0

Franke is the pronunciation that's correct. Okay. And, of course, I go way back with the Franke line.

1:40.7

Back, one of Dad's favorite Woodcock guns was the fronkey 48 absolutely and the 48

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