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I thought it might be interesting to do a little comparison between my Dad’s 2020 M4, and my new (2023) one. After taking them both apart I took some pictures of the most prominent differences I found, so here they are: The piston plugs have a very different finish. The old ones have a polished steel look, and the new are a more opaque finish. Perhaps they tried to reduce visibility as they’re slightly exposed by the t-pro hand guard. The pins are also a little different, the old ones being a polished steel look, and the new ones having an bronze like coating. I found that the finishing work to the piston housing was slightly more refined on the older model, but this could be because of the difference in colour. There are some differences in the barrel assembly. You’ll notice that the pins are miss stamped in the newer model, I did see this on another fde t-pro, so it might be a prevailing change/mistake. Overall I would say the finishing work is close in terms of quality. I wish I had an even older model to add for more reference. None of the firing pin pictures quite show the finish change, but it’s much like the pins in the piston plugs. The old on has a polished steel finish, and the new one is a sort of bronze finish. The bolt head retaining pin has a larger notch in the new one. The bolt heads have slightly different identification marks, but in terms of workmanship they seem pretty close. My new one has some nicks on the bolt face that the old one doesn’t suffer from however. New Old There was a slight discolouration in the finish on the metal parts of the new trigger grouping in places. (New trigger group on top.) Everything else seemed to be pretty similar. The old pistons finish seemed like it had a more grey tinge, while the new ones had almost a green tinge. You might be able to see it in some of the previous photos, but I had a hard time getting a good photo of it otherwise. I’d be interested if anyone else has an old one they wouldn’t mind rating these against in terms of workmanship. Also, if anyone else has a t-pro I’d be interested to know if you’ve found that the internal parts of yours share the same finishing differences as mine. Cheers, and thanks for reading!

Contacted Ddupleks for information regarding their slugs and shooting them from a full choke, this is their response email. Thank you for the interest in our products and the good words! Yes, you can use them in full choke. The diameter of the steel part is calculated to be safe for any choke - only the polyethylene encasing is touching the barrel. Best regards, Andris Stipnieks D Dupleks So, if I understand correctly the slim piece of plastic that is around the rim of the projectile is what grabs the barrel and will be able to squeeze through the barrel and the choke. Well, I have an email from them stating that it is fine even in a full choke. I will test this and report back to you guys and let you know if it works. If it does, I think the Hexolits are going to be my main go-to slug from now on. As some of you know about this slug it is super powerful and destroys everything, I also like the mechanics behind them with the petals breaking apart from the main head and just slicing up everything. I hear they work wonders on the skinwalkers and dogmen.

One can look up the "whois" information for benelliusa.com and get some contact information, but it could just be the people that created the site and run the domain name registrars. I am in I.T. so a bit of a geek, but I often find that information helpful.

@remarkable You may want to remove your email address now that he has seen/sent an email. Those web crawler engines will snatch up the address and distribute it to spammers. Love your contributions to the forum.

thanks. i like the Shockwave as well but im more of a Remington fan when it comes down to the two. that being said, i may still pick one up before too long

No sling mount kind of sucks. Not a huge fan of the Mesa Tactical Urbino style attachment system for the stock. You had best be really careful tightening the bolt into the receiver extension. That snap ring will not prevent the stock screw from backing out during disassembly. Do not use thread locker on this bolt or you’re going to have a really bad time. The stock screw will come out of the receiver extension and be stuck on the end of the attachment bolt deep inside the wood stock. Not a huge fan of how they carved the handguards. They didn’t use the same piece to keep the grain of the wood consistent. Most Benelli owners would pay more for a better made product.

The barrel on your M2, Montefeltro, and ultra light are all very similar to the SBE 3" verson. If you remove the "Top Cover" you will see the similarieties. thus barrel production would be very similar in most noted models. Using the Top Cover on the SBE 3, 3" would support line intigration.

Lighten up, Francis. It was a joke...