I finally made the benelli malfunction

[Corbin Dallas]

Well, I knew it was just a matter of time, but I finally got the benelli to malfunction.

Took about a good 8+ months of no cleaning and dirty walmart federal and winchester universal bulk packs.

I'd say I put about 1000-1400 rounds down the pipe without ever cleaning it. This weekend during a match she decided to stop running on me. Even after just a spray of lube I still had failures to eject and failures to load but she never failed to fire. I just had to run the bolt manually and cycle the action.

So, off to the garage I go for a full field strip and cleaning. I'm going to see how long I can go without cleaning it again.

[MTG Firearms]

Which model Benelli are you referring to?

[daybreak]

nice

[Corbin Dallas]

Which model Benelli are you referring to?

Oh, lol. M1super 90

[bsg]

Oh, lol. M1super 90

i knew that!

long live the M1 Super 90!

[cmoore]

I've had mine (M1S90) since about '93, no complaints, it eats everything. I ran a similar test yeasrs ago and it took awhile for it to eventually FTF/FTE, but it always fired after a manual cycle.

Nicely done...

[21SF]

Do they still make these? I can never find new ones?

[runway1]

I was speaking with a competition shooter/instructor at the Raahuage Shootout in June. He has the same "experiment" himself. He's on 3,000+. No malfunctions at all on a Vinci (reciprocating, not gas). He claims his buddy is on 5,000.

Just claims but the Benelli reliability can not be doubted. Absolutely the standard in shotgun reliability.

[hcbr]

I was speaking with a competition shooter/instructor at the Raahuage Shootout in June. He has the same "experiment" himself. He's on 3,000+. No malfunctions at all on a Vinci (reciprocating, not gas). He claims his buddy is on 5,000.

Just claims but the Benelli reliability can not be doubted. Absolutely the standard in shotgun reliability.

wow that's impressive if they haven't jammed up yet!

[3GunFunShooter]

Great news! I hate cleaning guns, but my M2 Salient is so easy to clean.
Only takes about 15 minutes, and that is taking the firing pin out, compared to 30-45 to clean my Remington 1100 and the Benelli is a lot less messy. I have run about 400 round between cleanings and even then, the barrel only needs 1 pass of a bore snake.

[SDlocal]

Corbin

Sure blame the gun for your match performance! ; ^ )

Ian

[Corbin Dallas]

Still came in second manually running the bolt after each shot.

Fred smoked the match with his 870.

[bsg]

Do they still make these? I can never find new ones?

the Benelli M1 Super 90 was succeeded by the M2 model.

[Blitzburgh]

Dupe

[Sicarius]

I find that my M1s90 doesn't like the winchester but the federal bulk pack works great. Were you using winchester?
Kevin