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  1. i'd go shoot the crap out of it first then clean and lube it up! good luck.
  2. Dawg, 1.) Yes, you can shoot HS in 3-1/2" 2.) Yes, you should not use a choke smaller than .675" for HS (in any gun) but having said this lots of people do use tighter chokes but it is hard on your gun, choke tube and shoulder! Ask the HS ammo makers and they ALL say to use more open chokes for High Density loads! 3.) Maybe, if you like the SBE2 and can afford it.....you are buying the right gun! If your killing turkey's at 55yds now with a Mossberg I wouldn't switch to an SBE2, but that's just me. Good Luck.
  3. c10250, just because a choke tube is marked "Full" does not mean it is actually a full choke.....look at your factory benelli chokes they are often marked "Mod" for lead / "Full" for steel and it's the same choke so is it Modified or Full??? It's Modified because we use lead as a std for measuring choke constriction but some choke makers who produce a special choke for steel will offer a more open choke but mark it "Full" for steel. hope this makes sence???
  4. bebsbe12, the RXP20 wad is a 7/8oz wad so that's your max with this wad! i'd ditch the old powder, pic up some Rem SP20 wads and make the following field/target loads; Hull: Federal Plastic Hunting "paper basewad" Load: 7/8 oz Powder: Universal Clays Charge: 18.0 grs Primer: Fed209 Wad: Rem RXP20 Velocity:1259 fps MEC Bushing: 23 Hull: Federal Plastic Hunting "paper basewad" Load: 1 oz Powder: Universal Clays Charge: 19.5 grs Primer: Fed209 Wad: Rem SP20 Velocity:1212 fps MEC Bushing: 25 These loads come from the Lyman 4th Edition Shotshell Reloading Handbook. I've been using the Hodgdon Universal Clays for many of my 16 gauge reloading and it is a very good powder. Buy this book it has a ton of usefull info regarding your MEC loader! BTW- MEC single stage charge bars have a number stamped on the end "302" followed by "78" or "100" or"118"....equal 7/8oz, 1 oz 1-1/8oz. A "502" bar is for a progressive loader not single stage.
  5. .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum.....6 shot revolver!!! or Federal makes a 10 gauge slug that are pushing 1-3/4oz of lead at 1280 fps!!! go check out http://www.reedercustomguns.com and look at Gary Reeder's wheel gun's........he hunts brown bear in Alaska with a wheel gun!
  6. i can tell you that part# 10401 does NOT fit SteadyGrip stocks! someone posted a thread stating the comfortech recoil pads would fit a steadygrip stock but were extremely tight. i purchased a Remington R3 Limbsaver pad and modified it to fit my SBE SteadyGrip....it turned out well but has a BIG R on the bottom of the pad! i used the factory benelli pad as a pattern to drill two new holes in the R3 pad and used the dremel tool to trim the plastic on the R3 pad to the same shape as the benelli....fit like a glove after a little sanding and shaping.
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    blk, if your nova has a pistol grip (steady grip) stock there isn't a limbsaver available that will fit your nova. Part #10401 fits a lot of Benelli shotguns and it might fit your nova if it is a std synthetic stock (non-steady grip).
  8. td, went to GM this afternoon and they have a few more SteadyGrip SuperNova's in Realtree APG regular price $529 and on sale for $429.....guess my buddy got the best deal last week?!?!
  9. Eagle, a .665" sounds like a better choice in my opinion. The Winchester Supreme Xtended Range that I'm familiar with is a High Density shot (10% denser than lead) and Hevi-Shot is also high density shot as is Remington HD....these are all "heavier than lead" loads and should be used with more open chokes than standard "lead" turkey loads. I've found .665-.675" chokes tend to work best with HighDensity shot. keep us posted...if the end of the choke blows off you'll know the shot was too hard and/or the choke was too tight!
  10. trav, my gas guns are Beretta 390's and a Browning Gold 10ga they are not a big deal to clean but I don't know anything about the gas system in the SX2 or SX3. However, I bet it isn't much different than any other gas system. The piston can get grimey after several hundred rounds and a good soak in solvent or hot soapy water takes care of the grime! The SBE2 a GREAT gun and is a much better waterfowl gun (in my opinion) but I do use mine on turkey's from time to time....however, like others here have said....for clays, dove and turkey season I'd get a gas operated gun and not look back! Good Luck.
  11. the limbsaver pad DID NOT fit my Steady Grip Super Nova (nor my SBE w/SG)....Gander Mountain said it would but it did not.....it may fit the ComfortTech stock on my SN but I have not tried that yet!?!? it did fit the standard SBE stock but I'm thinking I might just sell that stock along with the factory Benelli pad.....if I like the way the SBE w/SG shoots?!? I'm headed back to GM to redurn the Limbsaver and rip the sales clerk a new arse!
  12. FIB, i hear what you are saying about "no perfect" guns.......i find several reasons to make changes on every gun i purchase. i have never been a big Remington shotgun fan, Remington guns always felt too heavy and didn't fit me well.... when i started shooting competitively (sporting clays) i started out shooting a "field grade" Ithaca Model 51 because the gun fit me and was very reliable. i watched a lot of guys my first year on the tournament trail and i quickly noticed ALL those auto-loader Beretta guns and they were ALWAYS winning, beating out a lot of O/U's, too......i shot dozens of shoots all over the USA that first year and only saw one Remington 1100 in all the competitions i was shooting. The one and only 1100 was carried by a guy who also carried a bag full of spare parts and when i asked him why he had all those parts he said "my Remington is always breaking down"!!! He continued to tell me how he could afford to shoot anything he liked but he loved Remington 1100's and just couldn't switch to an "Italian" made shotgun. He was a very good shooter but due to malfunctions he rarely placed higher than 5th place in most events. i bought a used Beretta 390 before the next season and improved my shooting by increasing my practice with that gun but i never shot better with the Beretta than the old Ithaca M51....a few years later i tried a Benelli Sport and sold that Benelli so fast the barrel was still warm....i hated it for sporting clays! later that same year I went on a dove hunt to argentina with some guys and they were shooting Black Eagles & M1's, even the guides down there told me the Benelli shotguns were the only guns that NEVER failed in the dove fields and let me tell you we shot thousands of rounds down there! when i returned home i bought a M1Super90 in 20 ga for dove hunting and it has been a great gun ever since! i own several benelli's, a few beretta's and a few browning's.......maybe i just like guns that begin with the letter "B"?!?! are benelli's over priced? maybe, but so are BMW's if you compare them to Honda's....they are both cars but they are worlds apart in my eyes.....i feel the same way about my "Italian" shotguns!
  13. "casper" thinks he weighs 50 pounds instead of 15....jr's are the boldest and most intelligent little dogs i've ever owned. i've raised and trained a lot of hunting dogs in my life, beagles, german shorthair pointers, english pointers, english setters and jack russell's.....jack's love to work and work and work....i've seen them literally fall over from exhaustion rather than just quite while trying to dig a groundhog out! "casper" is 13 years old in that pic and has a serious heart condition (enlarged heart) but he still thinks he's a puppy!
  14. NK, i hunt a lot of public land in ohio.......even though our huntclub leases 1300 acres i still chase gobblers on some of the state hunting land. one thing that makes ohio a great hunting state....we have lots of excellent public lands with loads of deer & turkey (lots of hunters too!).
  15. dawg, "back boring" or "over-bored" barrels simply means the 12 ga barrel bore is larger than .729" diameter. the theory is, this larger bore diameter reduces recoil, reduces shot string length, increases velocity, improves patterns and makes you better in the bedroom.....okay it doesn't really do all of that! what backboring really does is; "back-boring or opening up the bore of a shotgun takes less choke constriction to still get the same pattern as one with a standard bore. This is a big bonus to all that love to shoot trap and other sporting clay games because this puts more pellets into the center mass of the shot string and over all shortens the shot string reducing the time frame from first pellet strike to the last." see this link for more info on backboring; http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.shotgun-back-boring.html can you tell i'm a big fan of "GunnersDen"? lots of good unbiased info there..... DON'T backbore your benelli's or beretta's they have chrome-lined barrels and the benefits of chrome out shines backboring (imho)!!! i've shot beretta o/u's & 390's that were professionally backbored and the shorter shot string is deadlier on moving targets (clays, upland birds).....but it does little to improve a turkey gun!
  16. eagle, i didn't realize they were the same company...learn something new every day! i have both chokes in my turkey choke tube "collection", too. just curious though, i've heard negative things with respect to "comp-n-chokes" and heavier than lead shot....i guess if the person at Kick's told you it was fine to shoot "hard" shot from the comp-n-choke that tight (.658") they must have changed something....maybe the one your getting is ported??? see this link; http://www.comp-n-choke.com/FAQ.html
  17. well put....see this link it comes from a "shotgun gunsmith" with decades of experience. pay patricular attention to what he says about lengthening a forcing cone and polishing it.... http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.shotgun-forcing-cones.html i'm not sure my SBE2 barrel wouldn't benefit from a little cone work but i've put all my eggs in the Beretta & Browning Gold 10 basket (modification and pattern wise).....maybe they needed it more than a Benelli?!?!
  18. wick, correct me if i'm wrong but a ZF1 doesn't really exist........except in the world of science fiction!
  19. i'm confused??? you called Kick's and they told you to use a "comp-n-choke"??? those are different companies am i missing something???
  20. ran across this link a few days ago and thought it might come in handy for you guys testing your "lead" turkey loads....it gives you some idea of pellet numbers without cutting shells open or counting all those holes for each load size you are testing. http://www.rfgc.org/reload/pattern_density_calc.htm I say "lead" because ANY "heavier than lead" shot (i.e. Hevi-Shot or HS) will have fewer pellets than a "lead" load of the same size pellet and charge weight..... example 1 oz load of #4's Steel = 192 pellets Bismuth = 155 pettets Lead = 135 pellets Hevi Shot = 119 pellets
  21. good points "tuck".....i think i would have shopped around if the guy wasn't willing to knock a little off due to "cosmetic" damage! thats just me, good luck c10250 and let us know how it all turns out. btw-many small "mom & pop" dealers will almost always ask for a deposit before they will order a gun but like "tuck" said, i'd have him call Benelli and ask when it can be expected to arrive. fullbore, there are several "mom & pops" in my area here in ohio who are NOT authorized Benelli dealers but they order and sell Benelli guns all the time....one that I know of personally said he buys thru a wholesale distributor in the Dayton area. i'm not in the business myself, maybe you are and know more about it than i do and maybe these "mom & pops" are buying from an authorized dealer and not a wholesaler??? My comments were based on my experience with my Benelli purchases and what these sellers told me.
  22. funny thing about shotguns and people.....some people even like mossbergs and some mossbergs might even fit some people better! we can all respect that....i've had a chance to shoot a lot of different shotguns and i honestly like sxs guns, most of them seem to fit me like a glove and i shoot well with them but a lot of guys have the opposite feeling toward them...hate'em! that's what makes the shotgun sports world so interesting, everybody can shoot what they want or can afford....if i had the money to burn i'd drop a little coin on a pair of Boss sxs bird guns but that aint going to happen in my lifetime! An SBE2, just like a Boss, isn't for everybody....so shoot what you like (or can afford).
  23. jr, it's absolutely worth the effort if you already have the reloading equipment (IMHO)!?!? i reload most all of my 10ga turkey loads and make them with both nickle or copper plated lead (harder shot than std chilled shot lead). i've found most brands of nickle and copper plated shot to be more consistant than some of the best factory ammo i've shot from the "mighty 10".....buffer is also a must for better, tighter patterns. the beauty of reloading is you can experiment with different wads, different powder and different weights until you find the optimum performance. if you don't have a loader, buy a MECjr used on ebay....i've seen them sell for as little as $20 (including shipping)! sorry mudhen, couldn't resist adding my 2 cents, looking forward to your reply.
  24. i've had forcing cones lengthened on many guns over the years and it DOES improve patterning.....having said this I don't have any Benelli's with longer cones but I have several Beretta's and my Browning Gold has a longer cone as well. there is a point of dimenishing returns when it comes to longer forcing cones and many modern guns have longer forcing cones than older shotguns. from my experience a 1-3/4" to 2" forcing cone is all that you need but there are people out there suggesting 3", 4" & 5" cones are all the rage....but the reality is 2" does the trick. polishing is kind of misleading because many gunsmiths who "polish" actually lengthen the forcing cone with a reamer first then "polish" it......getting the forcing cone area polished will improve the pattern because a good polishing actually lengthens the forcing cone!!! ask a reputable gunsmith, don't take my word for it and certainly don't take Nitro's word either....they want you to buy more of their ammo not spend your money on gun modifications that might lead you to the conclusion that high quality factory ammo works very well in you longer forcing cone shotgun! finally, lengthening the forcing cone can help reduce recoil (slightly), i equate this to the difference between a "punch" vs a "shove"......a smoother transition or removing that "bump" or lengthening the forcing cone (what ever you want to call it) will soften the "punch" but only slightly....take my Beretta Onyx Pro 3.5 until I had the barrels ported and the cones lengthened you could not bear to shoot heavy 3-1/2" loads....$400 dollars worth of barrel work by Jack Concannon it feels more like 3" loads and it does pattern better, too!
  25. There is a "mom & pop" gun shop near me that used to have very high prices on everything. When a Bass Pro and a Gander Mountain moved into the area his prices dropped significantly! He will often have prices around 10% below the big boys now but when the biggies have one of those "spring" or "fall" sales dear old Ron can't come close. My advice on buying a new gun....don't get in a rush, shop around and remember there is almost always a sale coming up!!!
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