How to remove the limiter from a Beretta 3901

[eightmd]

Does anyone know how to remove the magazine limiter from a Beretta 3901? I took my gun completely apart and I don't really see how you are suppose to take off the magazine tube from the receiver?

I'm not sure but I think mine is limited to only one shell in the magazine. When I try to put 2 in the first shell moves up into the magazine tube and gets stuck. Has anyone else had this issue?

[eightmd]

Well I saw something from Beretta customer service on how to do this. It involves removing a small pin but I don't remember seeing anything but a very very small pin and I'm not sure how to remove it. I'll have to take it a part again tonight and look at it a bit closer.

[Rhythm of Life]

From THR:

Wow! I'd love to see more than one grouse at a time. Usually, I walk around for a few hours behind my semi-worthless dog, and every once in a while, I hear something take off and fly away from me. Since I'm ostensibly grouse hunting, I assume that it's a grouse, and am suckered into staying in the woods even longer. After a day's worth of such events, I retire to the vehicle with maybe a bird in hand... so that I can drink cold coffee on the way home and think of ways to regale my wife with stories of "almosts".

I do enjoy every minute of it, though.

In any event, I just pulled my 391 apart. I think I see how to do it, but I'm not sure I would want to. First, make sure it's unloaded and field-strip it. Remove the gas piston and then look at the end of the mag tube. Just below the junction of the tube and the "thin portion" is a small detent ball. Push it in (I used a toothpick), and you can unscrew the "thin portion". Watch out, as the mag tube spring keeps some fair tension on things.

Once you get the end off the mag tube, the limit plug is just a small-diameter metal bar, which appears held in place by a star nut of some sort. I would assume that with sufficient leverage, you could pull the bar from the star nut. I did not go this far, as I'm unsure if it would damage the nut, or if it would be too difficult to replace the plug once removed. (NOTE: Don't get mad at me if you mess up your gun. )

Now, it looks to me like it would theoretically be possible to remove the factory limit plug and replace it with a shorter piece of plastic or wooden dowel. I would ask a smith first to see if there would be any problem with the function after making such a change.

Since I use this gun entirely for clays and waterfowl, it's not an issue and I don't plan to go any further. However, I do hope that this helps

Noticed this is the 391 not 3901

Might be similar though.

According to the OP it states the manual says for it to be completed by a gunsmith.

[doubleactiononly]

From THR:

Noticed this is the 391 not 3901

Might be similar though.

According to the OP it states the manual says for it to be completed by a gunsmith.

It's basically the same, only easier for the 3901. The first part is the same - you unscrew the thing on the end of the mag tube (that the piston, spring and end cap screw onto). However once that's off, the limiter is just a big plastic yellow cylinder that you remove. Then reassemble.

Just remember to press down the ball detent while unscrewing the end of the mag tube.

[eightmd]

I tried this last night and did see the ping and took it apart. Thanks for the help. Its not that hard but it wasn't obvious to me. I don't think it was specifically mentioned in the manual, but there was a picture of depressing the detent (#33), so maybe I just missed it. Thanks