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Hi There folks, I am fairly new to the Benelli line up. I recently won a Vinci 12 gauge at a wildlife fundraiser and am curious what I can shoot through this puppy. I have minimal experience hunting with a 12 gauge as I normally just use a 410 for grouse and higher powered riffles for big game. I have tried skeet shooting and love it as well. My question is, the gun states 3" does that mean I can use anything up too and including 3" length shells? Second, it came with 5 chokes. I am familiar with choke technology but I'm stuck on what chokes to use for upland game bird. I hear folks go with Carlesons Turkey chokes for turkey as appossed to the factory chokes, however for upland game bird im a complete newbie. Obviously need to handle steel shot but that's where my limited knowledge ends. I need help with choke, shot size and shell size. Any help anyone can provide, I would truely appreciate it. P.s. I am located west of Edmonton Alberta Canada, so not familiar with American ammo here. I don't even know if it varies between countries. Does it? P.s.s. no hating on me for winning this, I give a lot to that charity and I've more then paid for the gun...trust me...lol. all for a great cause.

Limited editions do appreciate sometimes, but unless they remain unfired and in pristine condition, they rarely increase enough to outweigh years of ownership and the memories that come with passing them down.

To my knowledge they don't exist. The M4 was derived from the M1014 which was designed to comply with the gas operated requirement of the USMC shotgun contest. That gas operated design utilized Benelli's ARGO which, in a different form, was also used in their short lived auto loading rifles. If memory serves, were around the time of HK imports. Welcome to the site. As far as the M4, I am fairly sure you'll have to settle for a much younger brother to your M1. However, in spite of some of us like myself being partial to the Benelli Inertia action, the M4's do fit into the collection nicely. If you are looking for a rare HK variant for your collection, consider an M3, it's a semi-auto/pump combo gun. They re-released it recently too though the original has a rare folding stock version that I am partial to. If you decide you want a rare M4, the NP3 model 11711 is likely the rarest of that model. M3T Folders:

Looking to sell my lightly used Benelli M4 H20 Tactical. It comes flawless overall with no dings on it. For price, I'm asking $1800. PM

Another thing it could be is the recoil spring or the tube where it resides is gunked or rusted up. I've seen several that had odd feeding issues that I couldn't seem to work out and decided to look there. In these cases they had a lot of what was dry material at one time. It looked like grass and corn shuck particles, then oiled. One was severely rusted. On that one I had to replace the entire tube and spring. Full disclosure, I don't work on guns for a living, but I hunt with a lot of different guys and when they start talking about selling their "P.O.S. of a gun" because it jams all the time, I try to buy it from them. I work on it and then I take it back out next time I hunt with them and show them it works. MANY of the times they bought it back. I make a little bit on it, not really enough for the time I spend, but I help keep these guys shooting Benelli's which I am happy to do.

Sorry to hear about this, and from a quality manufacturer ... I wise man once said that "if it's made of plastic, it WILL eventually fail" Given a choice, you can't beat blued steel and black walnut Joe B

My initial research indicated that H&K and Benelli ended their relationship to import Benelli products into the USA in 1997-1998 timeframe. Digging deeper I saw that H&K was involved in the military contract to import the new Benelli M4 in 1999, which is why I deleted that post as I had discovered it was incorrect after further research. There's nothing to indicate that any USGI contracted Benelli M4s/M1014s have ended up in civilian hands. In your OP you were inquiring where to find "an HK import for a Benelli M4" as if there's any USGI surplus Benelli/H&K imports (1999 DoD contract) "on the civilian side". Then you post "I never once said (the 1999 military procurement contracted Benelli M4s imported by H&K) were on the civilian side." No you did not, but you implied that. I'd love to see any proof at all that there are any surplus USGI Benelli/H&K import M4s which ended up on a Form 4473. So kindly show us where and how the 1999 Benelli M4s imported by H&K have been made available to civilians as surplus. The 1999 DoD procurement for Benelli M4s was for Benelli M4s with full length magazines and C stocks. The ban on more than five round magazines and C stocks (not folding stocks) on imported shotguns intended for civilian sales goes back to the gungrabber era, 1989-1994. Sales of the unneutered Benelli M4s with FL magazines and C stocks to us lowly civilians is generally prohibited (especially surplus sales by .gov or .mil). I'd love to see where one ended up in civilian hands, those things do occasionally happen.

From the research I did H&K and Benelli ended their relationship to import into the USA in 1997 or 1998, however research indicates that H&K was involved with the military procurement contract for the M4 in 1999. According to research the DoD didn't release specs for the M4/M1014 until May of 1998 and Benelli submitted examples of their newly designed M4 to the DoD in August of 1998 (pretty short development time, may have already been in the works). There is nothing to indicate that H&K was involved in the importation of M4s beyond 1999. There's absolutely nothing that I find that any of the H&K military contract M4s ended up on 4473s. Perhaps you can point to some record of this. A photo of a stack of obvious USGI Benelli M4s without any context whatsoever is meaningless. What's your point???

There's no context to that photo. It appears to be USGI inventory. No individual has that many M4s and they certainly wouldn't be treating their collection like that if someone even did have that many, nor would a dealer treat his inventory like that.

You come here less than a week and already acting like a dick. If i did know where one was, i would'nt tell you.

Saw this police trade in NOS M2 Entry on Gunbroker at a great deal. The new 0$ tax stamp made it even more attractive. One week dealer to dealer transfer, then three week wait on the tax stamp. Took off the pistol grip stock, installed compact comfortech stock, GG&G picatinny mount & sling swivel socket, and then Grovtech hollow stock swivel socket. Just need to purchase a weapon light now.

This comment lived rent free in my mind for awhile, I would also like to say that it had a part to play inspiring me to make a QD side saddle that solved the bulk issue with the current detachable rigid side saddles on the market. Well I finally came up with a novel patent pending design for a QD Side Saddle Shell Carrier that I am able to offer at a lower price, and give a much lower profile on the side of the receiver when the carrier is removed, and also cut down on the weight substantially. Our design has been in development for over a year. Featuring 7075-T6 aluminum components, and high glass high performance polymer injection mould carrier body. We are slated to release the RX Arms QD Side Saddle Shell Carrier in the fall of 2026 finally! Compatible with probably all shotguns, but fitment tested on the Benelli M4, Beretta 1301 tactical, Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol, Mossberg 590/500/Mav88, Remington 870 etc.

My recommendations: Discontinue Ghost loading Replace Carrier Latch Remove 5 shot extension, reinstall OEM magazine tube and OEM Spring Why: Some/most extension builders are not revising the Magazine Springs to meet requirements to not only function with the product line but this in consideration with the Gun Manufacturers Carrier Latch Design and strength. Most Carrier Latches I replace, many per year have one thing in common, extended magazine tubes. I build M4 with magazine extensions as well using the correct parts and calibrated magazine springs. Stranger Danger and Steve Rose are great resources on this forum how to do this correctly.

Benelli ended their importation relationship with H&K in 1997 and the M1014/M4 was introduced in 1998, so there are no H&K stamped M1014s or M4s.

Did you see the picture I attached? Clearly your statement is false.

Hey look I found more M1014's that don't exist according to you.

I wasn’t a dick until a mod was a dick to me and posted something and then deleted it like it didn’t happen.