cdogg44

I have an older SBE along with a SBEII that I alternate for different uses during my hunting seasons. I have several nice choke tubes for my SBEII and it would be awesome to be able to use them in my SBE as well. Is it even possible for a gunsmith to rethread the end of my SBE to accept the new SBEII style choke tubes? Thanks

I bought a new Benelli SBE II several years ago to hunt with and have recently added an older H&K SBE to have on hand as a loaner gun or back up gun should my SBE II go down during duck season (hasn't happened yet!). Although they are different guns, everything except the stock, forend and general cosmetics look identical to me. What interchanges and what doesn't? Would a SBEII barrel fit my SBE or could I have the SBE cut to accept SBEII style choke tubes (so I'm not buying double)? I'm also interested in fitting a comfortech stock on the SBE. Finally, my SBEII is a lefty version and my SBE is a standard right hand gun. Is there any way to reverse the safety on the SBE so it is more familiar to me? Thanks

I am looking to buy a Benelli Super Black Eagle. I am not looking for a SBEII. Gun must be able to float the 4th shell from the factory, no JB weld jobs. I'd prefer an HK marked gun. Please PM me and include an asking price and pictures. I have feedback under the same username from Ebay and AR15.com. Thanks

As luck would have it, the few parts I need for my SBEII are out of stock/backordered at Brownells. I've checked for the last several weeks and nothing has changed. I'm needing to pick up a magazine spring, follower, and possibly a recoil spring. I am diagnosing/trying to fix a recurring jam that leaves the shell about 2/3's out of the tube and locks up the gun. Does anybody besides Brownells deal in Benelli parts? Thanks

I've got a left handed SBEII and have been looking at adding a second gun to my stable as a loaner or backup to take on some of the long distance hunting trips I take. I'd also like to have a gun I could set up with a big extension and leave it for our no limit snow goose hunts. I have found a great condition LH SBE locally in the paper, but don't know if I should hold out for another SBEII instead. The regular old SBE's are cheaper, but I don't know if things like the bolt or bolt carrier are interchangeable. What do you guys think?

When did they start tapping them? My 5yr old SBEII isn't tapped.

The extension I bought is huge, like +6, and came with a bigger spring. However, I'm running the gun normal right now (no additional extension) with the stock spring and plug in it. I was thinking a stock mag spring would last longer than ~2-3k rounds.

I've got a 5 year old left handed SBEII with a couple thousand rounds through it. I shoot everything with it, from skeet to geese. I can't ever remember it jamming on me until this season, and I've had 3 jams that were the exact same and at totally random times. It happened again today and I took some pics with my phone. Shells today were 3.5" BB's Winchester Xpert (cheap....I know), but it has done the same with 3" shells. What is happening is the shell is not coming all the way out of the magazine tube and is hanging the gun up. I should add that I've never had the magazine tube apart until this year, when I test installed an extension tube I'd bought for snows. After the first two jams this year I disassembled the mag tube and cleaned it up real nice and the gun has been perfect since, until today. The gun has seen everything from 8 degree weather to freezing rain this year and has been flawless except for 3 jams (on clear ~35deg days). Of the 3 SBEII's in our group mine is the least problematic. I maintain it, but I'm not an obsessive cleaner. http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv65/cdogg44/IMG00140-20100130-0908.jpg http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv65/cdogg44/IMG00144-20100130-0911.jpg

I have a LH SBEII that I use and love. I'm looking to add a second gun to my stable for backup but mainly for buddies that want to go hunting but don't have a shotgun. To save some cash I'm looking around for a used SBE. Did they ever produce these in left handed configuration? What's the going rate on a good used SBE? LH add a premium? What about camo? Also, which SBE models were able to float the 4th shell? All of them? Just the HK marked guns? Living in Arkansas, I'm getting ready to start hunting some no limit snow goose eradication hunts this Spring and unplugged guns are legal for that. I figure if I'm buying a used SBE I might as get one that holds the extra shell. Thanks

Back in November when I got my SBEII the whole "stiff safety button" thing was going on and people were complaining and getting theirs fixed free with a short turnaround time. Now that all the seasons are over for a while I'm thinking about getting mine fixed (it's really not that bad...), but was just curious if they were still doing it for free and doing it fast. Thanks [ 05-30-2005, 06:59 PM: Message edited by: cdogg44 ]

Trust me, mine was plenty tight the first time I tore it down. I just pulled hard enough and it came off. Now it slides off with ease. Just pull harder, that's what Benelli is going to tell you (that's what they told me to do...).

The forend will be tight. Slide it on and off several times and it will get easier. As far as the case, I just bought a new full case because breaking the gun down all the time was going to get really annoying.

I was wondering about all of that. Put a shell in the chamber. Hold the gun pointing up over your head (be careful with a live round...). Jerk the gun down and the stop it abruptly. Watch the shell cycle... How another one follows it out I could never understand.

Have you seen this? Might be why she's taking the lead... http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=40870 Good Luck

Anybody have any experience with these chokes in a SBEII? I know everyone over a refugeforums.com loves them. They're a little pricey though. I'd like to get a pair of chokes for my gun to pattern and be ready for next season. I'm thinking something along the lines of a "general purpose" choke somewhere between an IC and MOD. I'd also like a super tight choke for far away canadians and also for turkey hunting if I decided to try that. Would I be better off getting a super tight Terror .655 and something like a Briley or Trulock LM, or a Terror .675 and a super tight cheaper choke? All things considered I'd probably be shooting the more open choke a lot more. Or should I just stick with the factory chokes that have served me well so far this year?