44 Canon

Because of things like this, I am hardcore about putting optics on all long guns, even shotguns. I perfer trintium fiber optic pointers which you have to make yourself unless you want to spend a thousand dollers for the trijicon, although their is an airsoft manufacturer who is in the discussion faze of weather or not to make an affordable one fit for firearms.

Hello guys. I talked with the guy I got all my Benelli parts from and he said he could care less what I do with them, and looking around, it seams that the parts I have could probably pay for a complete semi-auto benelli shotgun if you really can actually get them for $500 or less ( which I have yet to find. Anyway, the question I have is which Benelli shotgun would be best for the price I can sell my parts at or whatever I can come near. My parts I think I can sell are as follows: Bolt ( appears to be mint condition ) Trigger group ( appears to be mint condition ) Complete magazine tube with inturnal springs and cap Black fourend I have other parts obviousley but I don't think they are of any value. I would like to know what I can get for those parts and what Benelli shotgun they may come close to paying for. I perfer a small riot/military style semi-auto 12 gauge for plinking. One other thing. Aside from the parts I mentioned and the barrel and receiver, if their are any small parts any of you need, let me know as it's time to slice the turkey.

Looking for some resources for SBE barrels. Building this gun as a recreational "toy", my goal is to build a SBE in similar configuration to the M-1 Tacticle, so the closer the barrel to that, the better.

Like I said, building an SBE receiver is only a last resort. I am hopeing I can get Benelli to assemble the parts to a complete rifle and send it to a local dealer for transfer. Like I said before, my main reason for wanting to do this is so that I can sell it if I ever deciede to without paying $200 to have a cereal nomber asigned to a rifle that probably wouldn't be worth much more then $200 with the non-benelli receiver. BTW, I am aware that the barrel is really the price hog, but also keep in mind that the SBE as far as I know, is not available with the barrel I seek, so even if I got one complete, I would still be replacing the barrel anyway as well as the stock. The only thing I MAY be investing in to complete this gun that I wouldn't have had I bought a complete gun is the receiver. [ 07-03-2005, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: 44 Canon ]

Most of that unfulfilled dreaming has become a reality. Some I don't have pictures of but you will find if you come by, others are so old I don't talk about it anymore but footage is still floating around. As of right now, the only ones I can think of that I have not completed are the .500S&W auto pistol, the Desert Eagle frame, 10mm Beretta and the .50BMG deal. Those are ALL a matter of resources and have been from day 1. Their is a CZ-52 one but it's not a dream, just something I had in mind for some friends. Most of my online rep comes not from ideas but advice that works and first hand accounts by friends I have made stuff for. These are some pictures of my handy work. If their is anything speciffic, let me know and i'll see if I can't dif it up: CZ-52. Make note of the modurn mag release that's not native to the CZ-52. I have done allot more with that gun since the picture was taken. Some of my handguns. The grey frame handgun is a MAS 1935-A, and it's chambered for .22 Magnum. It was a mil spec make when I got it, with a missing fireing pin. The CZ-52 is also in their. Although this picture was taken after the first one, it has had some updates since then as well. A grip change being the most visable. It's what it looks like. An Xm-8 stock I made for the Ruger 10/22. It was my first and i've made much sharper ones since. Not really gun related, but much more of a chalenge then any gun work i've ever done. By the time you finish something like this, things like parts fabrication will be second nature to you. It's a 300,000 piece card model of the USS Nimitz. I started working on this model on June 6th of 2000 ( I picked that date on purpose ) and still haven't finished it. Everything is scratch built, including the aircraft, hanger bay, people and even the nobbs on the doors. Now, that's mostley just stuff I put pictures of online to comfort others curiosity. It's but a fraction of what I do in person, and if you look up what people who know me personally talk about, you will find that. You will find allot of concept images runing around, but while you will find allot of them that their are no actual photos behind, you will also find that they slowley but surley are alwayse followd up by photos eventually. Their have been times when these projects have been in question and times when they have been answered. Not everything on the list is complete, but unless I personally drop the project ( which I usually say I am going to do, and seldomley happens ), it alwayse has and alwayse will be eventually be backed up. If anything in that is relevant, it's that I DO put my money where my mouth is. BTW. Right now, I have 2 guns I built almost entirley from ground zero ( one I built everything from scratch but the barrel and some of the springs ) which I am trying to get pictures of right now. I am also only a single piece of metal away from finishing the Desert Eagle frame and magazine. [ 07-03-2005, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: 44 Canon ]

Nope, no problem at all. I preasentley own half a dozen handguns and a few long guns ( including a .22 Magnum XM-8 I built out of a marlin model 60 and a .22 Magnum MAS 1935A that I converted. I build WORKING gun parts on a regulear basis and am set up for doing it. Building a functional benelli receiver would be mostley a matter of getting down to the basic shape. The inturnals based on what I have and have seen, would probably be a very easy project. A simple internet search on my username will reveal that I am a pretty well known person in the gun comunity, particularley for ground level gunsmithing including development of entire firearm systems from ground zero, and roller-lock and roller-bolt actions happen to be one of my specialties. I also invinted a fully functional and reliable mechanism that releases the slide on handguns automatically when a loaded magazine is inserted without interfiering with the slide stopping back on the last round. I am just reaping ideas before calling Benelli. I have had a hard time reaching them since they close before I even go to lunch ( I am 4 houres earlier ) but eventually will, probably on monday. If I could get Benelli to build it, that would be great. As far as the idea of just selling the parts, I am more concearned with the person I got them from flipping-out on me for doing so then anything else. The main reason I perfer to go through Benelli rather then make my own receiver is so that if I ever wanted to sell it, I could. Their is a good chance that since I already own a Mossberg 500, I may end up trading it for an M-14 or something like that upon completion. Either way, one of them is going by, by. [ 07-02-2005, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: 44 Canon ]

Well, I thought about putting this on the other thread, but it seams to be a little to different in nature. If I can't get any help from Benelli, I am going to build my own SBE receiver. Any ideas or suggestions? I was thinking along the line of aluminum or nylon.

Any recomindations for a place to look for used barrels? I perfer to make it a shorter barrel multi-purpose utility shotgun and perfer a good old basic tacticle barrel over the big fancy ribbed ones. The gun will probably look like a beefed up M-2 by the time I am done, so that may give you an idea where I am headed with this. Since I am looking for a barrel that SBE owners I would presume don't usually desire, I would imagion that I could probably get a good deal on one from someone who just has one lying around as trade stock, while I also have a bunch of other gun parts I could probably trade.

So, what can I convert these parts to then?

Hmmm, I looked around and I can't find them for less then $775. Well, aulturnativley, I am a recreational plinker and would perfer to make something similar to an M-1 or M-2. Does anyone know if the small parts are compatable with any other Benelli receivers? e-gunparts.com has 121 barreled receivers for less then $200 and lowers for less then $70. My biggest concearn would be weather or not the trigger housing can handle it being a 3 1/2 chamber rifle. Also, does anyone know if it would be more ecanomic to just send the parts in to Benelli to build a rifle and transfer it to me, if they even will at all? [ 06-30-2005, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: 44 Canon ]

I just got a bunch of super black eagle parts. Basicley everything I need to complete a super black eagle exept the butt, barrel and lower receiver. I even have all the parts that go on the lower receiver. Anyone know where I can come up with a lower receiver and what they run for? [ 06-30-2005, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: 44 Canon ]