Benelli M4 owners....question for you all.....

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A buddy of mine bought a brand new M4 and we took it to the range for the first time, to break it in and have some fun. We were shooting low recoil sporting slugs through it and the gun was having a really hard time, sometimes it wouldn't eject, had trouble cycling rounds, some shells would get stuck on their way out so we had to rack the bolt back manually and oftentimes when it fired the last round, the bolt wouldn't stay in the open position.

My guess is this is because the gun is still new+low recoil rounds, but we were both a bit surprised, I was expecting it to be flawless because I heard from people these guns have no problem eating whatever kind of ammo you throw at them.

Unfortunately we didn't have any full power shells to try out, only the low recoil crap.

Did any of you experience something like this when your M4 was new? Was it picky and a bit stubborn in the beginning, for first few hundred rounds, until it loosened up? Is this to be expected when using low recoil ammo in a brand new semi shotgun?
 
SantaClawz said:
A buddy of mine bought a brand new M4 and we took it to the range for the first time, to break it in and have some fun. We were shooting low recoil sporting slugs through it and the gun was having a really hard time, sometimes it wouldn't eject, had trouble cycling rounds, some shells would get stuck on their way out so we had to rack the bolt back manually and oftentimes when it fired the last round, the bolt wouldn't stay in the open position.

My guess is this is because the gun is still new+low recoil rounds, but we were both a bit surprised, I was expecting it to be flawless because I heard from people these guns have no problem eating whatever kind of ammo you throw at them.

Unfortunately we didn't have any full power shells to try out, only the low recoil crap.

Did any of you experience something like this when your M4 was new? Was it picky and a bit stubborn in the beginning, for first few hundred rounds, until it loosened up? Is this to be expected when using low recoil ammo in a brand new semi shotgun?
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Use full power ammo "atleast 3dram 1 1/8 oz" and lube it more

Its a combat shotgun not and trap gun ;)
 
Dsiwy said:
Use full power ammo "atleast 3dram 1 1/8 oz" and lube it more

Its a combat shotgun not and trap gun ;)
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I noticed he lubed it quite a bit, maybe too much.

But will it accept low power ammo easier over time? Or will it always stay a fancy and picky gun? :)
 
SantaClawz said:
I noticed he lubed it quite a bit, maybe too much.

But will it accept low power ammo easier over time? Or will it always stay a fancy and picky gun? :)
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hmmm I would try a heavyier round first

I only put 100rds through mine "winchester cheepo 3dram 1 1/8" start getting afew short strokes around the 75th rd. I shot 5 slugs after and it ran fine :)

I have always heard they need to be broke in so I'll see :)
 
Exactly. Just needs a good break in like a new motor. After 100-200 rounds of heavy loads it will cycle everything beautifully :)
 
Funny how guys will spend 2K + on a gun then feed it the cheapest $h!t on the market and wonder why there's issues.

It's like siphoning gas out of the junker in the alley so you can fuel your Ferrari :confused:
 
marcoman said:
Funny how guys will spend 2K + on a gun then feed it the cheapest $h!t on the market and wonder why there's issues.

It's like siphoning gas out of the junker in the alley so you can fuel your Ferrari :confused:
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Well, when you spend 2 grand on a gun, you become broke so you need cheap ammo. :D

This gun is made for war and chaos, and as such we didn't expect it to be picky about the kind of ammo you feed it, but I suspect it's due to it still being new.
 
marcoman said:
Funny how guys will spend 2K + on a gun then feed it the cheapest $h!t on the market and wonder why there's issues.

It's like siphoning gas out of the junker in the alley so you can fuel your Ferrari :confused:
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Stupid post.

"Low recoil" isn't the "cheapest ####". Often times its quite the opposite.

Furthermore, a $2000 gun SHOULD eat everything including the cheapest ####.
 
Usually it takes a couple hundred rounds of full power ammo to break it in. As said before, 250-300ish.

Mine has zero hiccups with even the cheapest low brass target ammo now that it's got some ammo through it.
 
I ran 50-75 full power ammo through mine when it was new and now you can put the weakest crap through it no problem. After a couple boxes or so you cant make it skip a beat.
 
Yup, after 200-300 full power Slugs and Buck it should be good to go.
Here is me shooting Heavy Birdshot, S&B 2 3/4 low recoil Slugs and Buck with no issues.

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I got an m4 and within 50-100 of 3 inch steel shot or 3 inch magnum slugs the pig eats whatever I feed it
 
If you want a heavyier load with out paying alot, Try fieldloads "3 1/4 Dram 1 1/8oz shot"
There around $7 abox, which is not much more then the cheepo shuff
 
This week we start shooting my 2 brand news M4, the diet was simply all the clean up of all my 12 g ammo, cheap 2 3/4 3 inch, skeet, slug low velocity, all i had left went tru those marvels, not a hiccups as far i am concern those shotgun are not finicky at all on ammo... JP.
 
caramel said:
This week we start shooting my 2 brand news M4, the diet was simply all the clean up of all my 12 g ammo, cheap 2 3/4 3 inch, skeet, slug low velocity, all i had left went tru those marvels, not a hiccups as far i am concern those shotgun are not finicky at all on ammo... JP.
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so how much were they, landed price from italy?
 
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