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It's a petroleum based lubricant designed for high volume and high heat weapons. If that's your purpose, then it should be fine. But if you're going to be hunting in sub-freezing temps, then a synthetic like CLP or Hoppes Elite is a better choice. The MSDS lists the melt point at 0 degrees F. That means that it will begin to solidify at temperatures below zero.

EGW makes a Picatinny rail for the Supernova. They sell them on ebay and direct. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180161413809

No and no.

You won't hardly find a slug barrel for the Cordoba, a gun designed for heavy use in the dove fields of Argentina. Your best solution would be to buy the SBEII or M2 (if you're not going to shoot 3.5") in the factory slug configuration, and then add a field barrel. It's much easier to find the field barrels in the marketplace than it is to find the slug barrels. From your opening statement, it sounds like you have shouldered and fired a Comfortech shotgun. If that's the case, then your choice is an informed one. If that's not the case, then you may want to try one on that tender shoulder before you write the check.

I had hosted this file on putfile.com, but they appear to be having some problems. The SBE Quick Cleaning Guide has now been re-hosted and is available in PDF format from this link . Don't count on it always being there. Right click the above link and "Save Target As" to download it permanently to your PC.

I think it was last year that they made the SBE non-Comfortech and SBEII Comfortech. They were listed on the website as a different model, standard SBE. The non-Comfortech models were otherwise SBEII through and through.

Benelli dealers. Gunbroker.com Auctionarms.com Gunsamerica.com

The world really needs a 7 lb. 10 ga. autoloader. They get enough complaints on recoil from the people shooting trap loads in their SBE's. A 10 ga. would probably provoke lawsuits from clay pansies

I honestly don't think the Comfortech reduces felt recoil that much. I had my hands on one them today and it's a nice gun.

I keep two pair. One for moderate days and another for the cold weather. Cabelas waders are hard to beat for price and for service.

Firstly, you need not submit a registration in order to qualify for warranty coverage. You can provide proof of purchase and your warranty period begins when the gun was bought. If you don't have proof of purchase, then the warranty reverts to the date of manufacture. If you don't have a warranty registration card, then call Benelli and ask them to send you one.

One bit of advice. If you're going to get a slug barrel and a standard barrel, buy the slug configuration and add the other barrel secondly. Not the other way around. Field barrels are a LOT easier to find than are the sluggers.

They are still in production, but primarily for the EU market.

Check the name or look at his profile.

If this is you, then there's a screw. 043C Look, all I'm doing is stating the obvious. You have what you have. If you want something better for slugs, then I suggest an optic.

Is it a gas gun or a recoil-operated sliding barrel design? The A- doesn't match up to Italian date of proof coding. There should be another letter after the A. http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=73492 A picture would be helpful. Go to gunbroker.com and search for franchi. See anything similar? That's what it's worth.

You have fixed sights. The weapon is a shotgun, aka scattergun. The sights are designed to work in much the same way beads do on sporting shotguns or fixed blade sights do on close range handguns. They get you on the target in general; which is usually just fine for a shotgun. The dovetailed sight can be tapped right or left for some windage adjustment and the front blade can be filed down for elevation, but that's about it. If you want more exact sighting for the weapon, then consider mounting a red dot or holo-sight of some kind. Did I mention it's a shotgun?

Long-time member, Duggan, had made a series of videos of a loading technique that cured the "Benelli Thumb" quite well. Unfortunately, his videos are no longer properly linked in this thread. http://www.benelliusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9822 Duggan, if you're around it would be great to get those rehosted somewhere. I'll shoot him a PM as well.

The Browning BPS is ambidextrous (bottom eject, tang safety) and is avaliable in a couple of slug configurations. LH SBEII shooters can use a smoothbore barrel and a rifled choke tube, or any one of a number of smoothbore slugs. I shot a smoothbore slug gun for serveral years when a neighboring county had outlawed rifles. This was in the 80's, and the accuracy was quite good. I took several deer at over 100 yards.

Anyone who wants to can criticize Benelli, and unless they include offers for savings on cell phones, vulgraity, or personal attacks, thier criticisms will most likely stay on this site, without being removed by Benelli. But here's the thing. Yeah, you can get a Ford F250 that won't start, and you can get a Benelli that won't cycle. In both cases, the logical, adult, and prudent thing to do is to contact the manufacturer's customer service department and let them do what they're hired to do. Jumping on the website and ranting about it neither fixes the problem nor gives the owner any real relief from his/her dissatisfaction. Focusing one's energies and efforts in a positive direction will always foster better results than pizzing and moaning to people who not only can't fix the problem; but after the attitude being shown, wouldn't if they could.

Maybe you've got small hands. Quail are probably a bit smaller though.

Nice! Looks a lot like our bobwhite quail.

I think most of us agree with that statement. Call Benelli CS and let them do their job. Grow up a little while you're at it.

A red dot style scope will work great for both, but a traditional crosshair scope could be a problem for turkey hunting, where shots can be at http://www.burrisoptics.com/speeddot.html