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Man I don’t think you should have contact there. If open it up, air hose it all, hit everything with brake clean and spray it with a light lube, then darken the area with some sharpie and see if you’re still rubbing. I’d press Benelli, that’s not normal.

I would take your trigger group out, put the bolt in and see if it is something further back in the reciever. I am not 100% convinced it is the barrel.

I’ll have to investigate my guns more, maybe some others can chime in.

Inspect the receiver for burrs, might be some aluminum rubbing. Feel free to pass along photos of my bolts showing no wear, I have thousands of rounds through these. stoeger doesn’t have any idea what they are talking about you will have to be a bit insistent. try and get receipt of purchase from the guy u bought it from?

It’s a manganese phosphate finish, hasn’t changed probably since 1998 introduction. wear like that is not normal. Here’s 2 bolts that I’ve used a ton, no where on them at all.

Okay I didn’t notice the bolt wear, that imo is not normal. and your bolt is Cerekote? The M4 bolt is fairly loose and not tight enough to notice less than 1 thou of paint i don’t think…. something may be out of spec there with the wear on your bolt

If it ain’t broke… seriously though if it’s running well for 500 rounds so far I wouldn’t be concerned. If the finish is wearing off in spots and you start to see corrosion then I would come back to this. I’m sure Benelli would make it right. in the end these are tools. Even if they are beautiful Italian tools and they are going to take some hits as you use them for their intended purpose. It’s hard to tell from the pics and lighting but is the finish wear on the bolt down to bare metal?

Looks normal to me, here’s my old M4 with thousands of shell through it

I did not need to see this.

Thanks for the input. As for release date, looking like the fall at this point. I think I can bring the cost down more but I’m not ready to say what final pricing will be. I’m also able to get the RMR mount down in price as well, much less than others on the market.

Got a question for yall. With the newer update design on this, I had to move the bracket to attach at the front mag tube to address some issues of the last iteration. currently I am planning to supply a wave washer for under the mag cap to keep mag cap tension, which does work just fine without issue. Ive also been brain storming alternative methods for the past month with little headway to keep tension on the front mag cap. Older Remington 1100s used to use wave washers for their cap, so it has been done in the past. At this point there doesn’t appear to be another path to take but it hasn’t stopped me from thinking about it day and night for the past month. I’m wondering for those that are wanting this heatshield, what are your thoughts on the wave washer? At this point I think I need community feedback, I don’t think there is another method that will be better than the wave washer (the mounting bracket covers the detent), and it is the last piece of the puzzle stopping me from going into production.

Years ago mounted a Mesa Tactical QD to the grip roll pin location. You need right side mount, flip it about.

Nevermind, I should have checked RXarms... he's killing it with the custom M4 parts.