Drundel

my SBE1 (bought last year) had a pretty crappy finish. It rusted on its first hunt in the marsh even though I used corrosion-x on it. I had it dipped and haven't looked back.

Sounds like silicone caulk.

3.5 with heavy load kicks no matter what.

Hmm... thats about the fourth one I read about. Mine was a pain to get off. Wonder if something else is the difference like weather. I hunt down in Texas and its been around 90 each hunt, how cold were you guys hunting in? Side question, Alaska, you hunt ducks around ANC? I work on the slope and they are talking about moving me to Alaksa next spring, I'm all for it, but I've heard interesing stoires about hunting in y'alls marsh and the **** tides. Thx

saw a few more doves yesterdya afternoon, hopefullyl i can finish moving eraly tomorrow and hunt some in the afternoon. suckers are big and i'm shooting like crap, my #6 i swear bounced off. BTW BD, I work in AK, when I left it was 15 and snowing, so 50's pretty warm!

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Gas gun with mercury weight. I like my Benellis but I'm 26 and can take some recoil. Get a 391 in camo and you'll have a great gun. Its only 3" but hevi-shot and Kent Impact make up for it. And I subspect if you have a torn rotator cuff, you probably can't go some of hte places we do that would give the gun problem.

hopefully mont. will post up here.

i never clean mine before the first outing, but ifyou were going to clean them, take out the action and clean the bolt and all the rails inside.

it should fire any 1-1/8 loads no problem. Might be something to do with wolf loads.

Yea that sounds pretty **** rough. I hunt in the salt marsh and some areas are like that, but not near an 1.5 hours worth! I have replaced all my parts in my SBE1 with surecycle parts and so far no rust. One thing I would suggest for you guys are sleds and a floating gun case. Drake has a sweet one that opens all the way to dry out and with sleds you can pull all your gear out there. We use them and it sure beats carring gear on your shoulders.

welded it back on if i remember correctly.

never heard of that. no problems with mine, its actually kinda tough to get mine off. My nova is **** near impossible to get off. So you never found it? Were you in water? Had you ever taken it off before? I'll mess with mine when I get home but you got me curious. Man I've had mine out in almost 100 degree weather this summer patterning it and no problems with the pad getting loose. Lets hope you had a defective pad. Good luck and please keep us posted.

http://www.e-gunparts.com/ not sure what part that is, but try here.

Sucks to hear about that, but thats not the firs time I've heard that and I bet it won't be the last time. Reasons like that make me glad I have a Nova as a backup.

Bid D: Yes they have, do a search, you need to e-mail someone and they tell you to send in the trigger assembly and they replce the spring. I had mine done before hunting season adn I actually forgot about it until just now. About $4 for shipping and its a totally new safety.

last i heard (from benelli) there were short stocked and this was before the break in IT. Not sure the new status, I'll hopefully send an e-mail when i get home about it. i too want one.

hollycrap dude, I'm rough on my stuff, but only the gun from action down gets underwater on a bad hunt. here is what I do when that happens to mine. I take off the butt pad, lock the action open and spray lots of corrosion-x in there until it starts draining from the recoil spring, then I take the bolt out, clean the recievere, the bolt, the barrel and if you got water in the mag tube, it too. i like fp-10 on the rails and the action itself. if its not camo, use corrosion-x on the barrel.

Wow, even for the nasty salt marsh hunts?

might be cool in a SxS coach gun.

http://shotshell.drundel.com/chokes.jpg see if this helps. my fav dove choke is a X2 LM.

i've heard people say that before. let a buddy try to shoot it and see if it works for him.

Ditto MagManiac. If the bolt is not fully closed and rotated all the up, it will not let you load shells. This is a safety feature. I lost many a duck this way last year. Teach me not to clean my gun after a mud hunt.

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i have shot 3.5 drylocks 3.5 estates 3" estates 3" kents 3" B&P 3" win xpert HV 2-3/4 rem sportsmen 2-3/4 win xpert 2-3/4 win AASC all with no problem. the only thing that didn't cycle were 7/8 oz. win SS. Hopefully it just needs to be broken in more.