Kevin Holman

Interesting - I will play with mine and take some pictures.... see how it turns out. So it looks like from those threads: 1. This seems to be more common on the M2 than the M1, but mine is an M1 and very stiff. 2. There are three different methods you can use (or combination of) to help this situation: a. Remove metal from the "U" shaped cutouts, which reduce the stiffness of the carrier latch/shell stop. b. Remove metal and polish the shell engagement area (carefully!) c. Bend/tweak the spring steel at the "U" areas to reduce the spring tension when pushing a shell past the carrier latch/shell stop. Sound right?

Never thought about that at close range - but the Pythagorean Theorem would apply - A squared plus B squared = C squared. At 45 degrees - a 2" height over bore would be exactly 2.82" low from POA.

I love that app. It is an argument ender.

3100, which is factory 55gr. All I pretty much shoot is my handloaded 75's tho, which are ~2700. I only shoot the cheap 55's on the close hoser stages, or if no targets are over 100 yds. I plan on switching to 69's once I use up all my 75's... and use that acorss the course for matches, which I plan around 2800, last time I loaded some.

Breakfree CLP. I clean with brake parts cleaner, then wipe down and lube with CLP. All I have ever used and it has never let me down. I have seen too many guns go down, or mafl too often in matches... totally unscientific, but every time I asked what they used as lube - it was always something thicker/heavier than CLP. Since mine always run, thats what I use.

The seems like that would be really hard to do. But I am no expert here. The follower is very long, I would think you would have to remove a massive amount of material to make it not run true... as soon as the shell pushed it back at all, it would be identical to an unmodified receiver. It appears to have a little over 1/8" of material that could be removed, before you impact the shelf which stops the follower. Even if you DID cut into that area where the shelf is, you would only impact about 15% of the diameter of the shelf that stops the follower. I am thinking that cannot have much impact. But then again, only thinking. I am not about to cut into my receiver just yet.

On a Benelli M1 - I know a common mod is to remove material from the loading area to ease in stuffing shells, and have read many threads on this topic. However - mow much is too much removal? In the pic below is mine - it was done by Benny. It seems that you could remove a lot of material from the upper area circled in yellow, and curve the open space to match your thumb, and really make it easier to load shells past the shell stop and firther reduce any chance of benelli thumb?

I just got my first Benelli, M1S90. When test loading dummy rounds, it is really hard to get them past the shell stop. The benelli has a rather large rounded shell stop, unlike what I am used to on my Mossbergs and Remingtons. Is this a normal thing for a benelli? Or is there a common mod to make them slip in easier when loading?