ORIGINAL: WaterFowler07
Hey, I'm looking into getting a new gun. I'm looking at the Benelli M2 28" barrel in Max-4 camo. I don't shoot 3 1/2's, so there's no real reason for me to get the SBE2, right? It's basically the same thing, but $400 less? My pump gun can shoot 3 1/2's if I ever need to. Does this sound like a good plan?
This sounds like a fine plan. In my experience I have seen many more failures of the SBE than the M2 or the M1 Super 90's. I would also look at a Beretta Xtrema or a 391, or the Winchester SX2/Browning Gold. You generally get what you pay for with a Semi, and I have personally seen the Benelli/Beretta guns get used in ways normal humans will never use their guns and they kept on working. Duck hunting is hard on a gun and I don't want one that I have to clean every day, or that will break after only a few thousand boxes of shells (between duck season, and light goose conservation season I usually shoot 4-5 flats of 3.5" shells, and shoot about 16 flats of 1 oz. target loadswith my duck gun to keep used to it during the off season).... I know the Beretta and Winchester will do that and keep working for years...not sure about the others....
I have a good friend that hunts like I do...he bought a Stoeger the season before last...this year he was shooting the M2....