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Are they going to be offering the 4 shot extensions or just the two shot extensions?

If you can spend 800 dollars why not just save up a little more and get what you want.Why settle for second best?

I am an expert on the M3. Benellioni-If you are going to shoot skeet with the M3 I suggest you order the model with open sights.The rear ghost ring sight is ATTACHED TO THE RECEIVER.I dont know how it is held on.Might be welded or maybe just screws but you would have to remove it every time you went clay shooting,unless you dont mind a big hunk of metal in your sight picture.I bought the open sighted model because I knew this would be a problem.I shoot skeet every week and Im glad I bought the open sights. I dont know why the open sights cost more.I had always thought it was a typo in the catalog. Steve-Most of these local gun dealers are puffy chested morons.They would rather give you bad information than admit they haven't done their homework.I got the same kind of information when I was shopping for my M3.Its hard to believe that these people actually get paid to spout their b.s.But anway,The M3 is most definately convertible. If you want to demonstrate the pump action in a shop you need to load a few dummy rounds in the magazine so that you can properly cyle the action a few times.If you dont load the dummy rounds you have to first pull back the forend,it locks back,then you have to push the carrier release button ,then you can return the forend to original position.Its a very clunky procedure without the dummy rounds. This shotgun is not for most people.Everyone says it is too complicated,and that is the reason I bought it.I like complexity. I havent had much luck with the lighter target loads when shooting clays.I can shoot about 30-50 rounds in the auto mode and then it fails to eject the rounds.Thats when I convert it to pump and finish the day shooting in pump mode.I still think its not broken in yet so maybe it will cycle reliably in the future. (Benelli recommends full power loads to reliably cycle the action,but who wants to shoot 00 buck at a clay target) I hope this might answer some questions.When I was researching this gun I got the typical answers"too complicated",or "just get an M1". I think the M3 is the most under rated shotgun in the entire Benelli line.Be sure to get the tactical barrel and the 26" barrel and you will have a selection of OPTIONS that the other benelli models cant provide.

Why can't Benelli make universal mag extensions for their shotguns.You have one for the Nova,one for the M3,and a different one for the SBE.Do they do this to screw you out of more cash or is there a better reason?A 12 gauge mag tube is a 12 gauge mag tube.

I waited a month and a half for an M3.Almost forgot that I had ordered it.

Anyone know what kind of shells Tom Knapp uses when he sets all those records?I doubt he uses the 3 Dram,1 1/8 minimum that Benelli recommends. He must have to use some light loads to shoot ten clays at a time.I'm determined to solve the recoil puzzle for the M3 so I can have an all-in-one shotgun.

That makes perfect sense Dave.Hard to install a spring in a folding stock.Do you think I could get a weaker/stronger spring so I could shoot target loads.I like to shoot 5 stand and skeet with the m3 and the lighter loads dont cycle all the time.

The spring underneath the forearm is referred to as "spring" in the manual.(Part 100F).I wonder if this is the recoil spring.Does this spring replace the one that should be located in the stock?And if it does, it seems like it would be easier to make the M3 cycle lighter loads.

That spring you show is called an inertia spring in the manual.I checked out the parts diagram for an M1 super 90 on the Italian website and it has both the inertia spring AND an entire recoil spring assembly in the stock.It would seem that the M1 and the M3 would both share the same design when in auto mode.Is the spring that attaches to the magazine used only for pump mode or does it help with the auto mode too?

Thank you Tucker.If the gun is not inertia operated then what is the function of the inertia spring.Is it just used to dampen the recoil to prevent damage to the gun.And if the recoil spring is located on the magazine tube would this spring be easy to replace with a weaker spring so I could shoot low power loads in auto mode.Thank you again.

THERE IS NO SPRING INSIDE THE RECOIL TUBE!!! The exploded diagrams in my manual DO NOT SHOW a recoil spring assembly.I have shot the gun for months and have experienced some ejection problems.Why doesn't the diagram show a recoil spring???

I own a new Benelli m3 and have a question that I hope one of you might be able to answer.I was disassembling the gun for cleaning and noticed that there was no recoil spring located in the stock.I looked in my manual and there is no recoil spring shown in the diagrams.All that is shown is the recoil spring tube.IS THE SPRING MISSING?Or does the M3 function without it?

Check out the Beretta link and click on the picture of the M3.The two photos at the bottom of the page show the M3's action selector IN THE WRONG POSITION!!!! The caption on the left should read MANUAL PUMP ACTION. The caption on the right should read SEMIAUTOMATIC FUNCTIONING MODE This gun is so confusing even the manufacturer cant get it right!!!

I just bought an M3 and was wondering if the 26" barrel was still available for it.I dont see it in the new catalog.I want to shoot skeet and I dont want to buy another gun.Will this longer barrel do the trick?