71Dragtruck

Yup that's the site I found to help me out. That place is going to come in real handy! Thanks.

Nevermind found it, just as I suspected a broken missing part.

My brother has a SBE and it quit ejecting, it has the old style metal bar on the side of the reciever and it doesn't look as though it slid back any, but we're not sure if it's missing a piece or not. He cant find his manual and mine is a SBE II so it's different. If someone has the old style like his could you please post some pics of the side of the receiver so we can compare it to his. Then we'll know all the pieces are there and can look elsewhere for the problem. Thanks.

Not sure if I'm having really good luck with mine or what, but I have just over 400 rounds of 2-3/4 Dram 1-1/8oz. loads through my SBEII now right out of the box and no problem, even tried a box of 3" T steel, and a few 2-3/4" #4 lead and no problems at all. It has worked flawless out of the box with light loads, my brother has a SBE and his also has shot light loads from new also with no break in. I'm talking cheap old gun club loads and Wal-Mart loads. Only thing I have a complaint about is a flaw in the black finnish on my barrel, as long as in doesn't give me trouble down the road pealing I don't care. I just don't want to risk taking it back and getting a lemon. All I know for sure is if it keeps performing like it is, and along with not having to clean a gas chamber the price tag was worth it to me, have to love the way it splits in two. If it had a left hand side feed like my old B-2000 I might consider laying it between me and the wife in bed at night. LOL!!! [ 11-07-2006, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: 71Dragtruck ]

Allready have that downloaded thanks for the good info . If a guy removed the plug, that would take the fun out of it. Under normal usage, how often do you clean the recoil spring assembly? A group that comes up from Minnesota were with us last week, I'll try to get them to e-mail me the pics of us and our 100 birds we shot that day and post them up. ( after reading some other posts, I'll add that the group was well within it's limit, that was a total of ducks, geese, and huns. We were in fact checked that day. ) [ 10-28-2006, 11:30 PM: Message edited by: 71Dragtruck ]

Well I just bought a SBE2, my brother has a SBE and the first time I saw him take it apart to clean I ordered one ( of course after I tryed his out ). I own 4 other shot guns and usually shoot a Browning Autoloader for my main one, but the Benelli has now moved to main shotgun status. I was worried about it and light loads at first after reading some of the posts on here, even though my brothers has shot them no problem out of the box. We pass alot of time shooting clays been 2 cases every Sat. lately, and to keep the cost down use the cheapest shells we can get, usually Winchester Universals from Wal-Mart, or Remington Gun Club loads. 7.5's and 8's. Well let's get to test day, out of the box 2-3/4 Dram 1-1/8oz loads 8 boxes no problem at all, shoulders perfect for me out of the box also, no matter how fast I bring it up or what angle I'm at it's there. I could not miss today, best day I ever shot, I was expecting a few misses at first after a week of bird hunting with steel and new gun and all. When we shoot clays, we use hand throwers, we have 2 singles and a double, and the guy throwing try's to make the shooter miss, no nice throws or waiting to reload and sometimes 3 go out when you call 1, usual stance calls for a shell in your mouth . Anyway sorry to carry on in my first post, but today was a blast, no pun intended. So far so good for me, Mon. going out for some Geese in the morning, and likely a few Huns in the afternoon. Can't wait to try it out on some live game and 3" shells. [ 10-28-2006, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: 71Dragtruck ]