I shot a Nova for 2 years with excellent results !! I pulled it out of the box and shot doves great ......clays great......ducks great .....turkeys great !! I never had to pattern it.....or worry about what shells I was using !!

I recently sold it and upgraded to a SBE .........expecting similar results. I have not patterned it or tried any chokes other than stock ones . I really like the gun and it's the easiest gun to break down and clean.......I have ever used !

But I can't hit the broad side of a barn with it ! The overall length is the same as my Nova........the length to the trigger pull is identical......the only difference is in the pitch of the barrel (which I don't know anything about) .

I am about positive now that it's shooting high for me......the bottom of my pattern seems to be at my aiming point ! I started aiming lower and nocked down a few ducks at the end of season .

Any suggestions ? This has been a little frustrating !!

Love my sbe w/nitro choke for turkeys am thinking of getting the slug bbl.

I bought two camo sbe's, one for me and one for my son, about five years ago. Mine is my principal gun for upland and waterfowling, plus spring turkeys. I love mine, but I don't own any other autoloaders to compare it to. The one thing I know is that if I don't keep it clean and well lubricated, it will fail to recycle. So I clean and oil it regularly, usually after every hunt or so, depending on how dirty it got. It is easy to disassemble and clean. It shoots straight, patterns well in all chokes.
I like its simple design, light weight and built in swivel buttons.

I own the SBE w/ steady grip and i find it to be unbelievably accurate and by far the most comfortable set up out there. I traded in a Beretta Extrema and some cash to get it. The Extrema would not feed 3 1/2's so it had to go. I know people who have traded their SBE for Super X2's and i also know people who have traded their SX2 for SBE's. Its like cars anyone can get a bad one. Daly shotguns are supposed to be the worst reliablity wise. Make a post asking about their reliablility and poeple will say their gun works great. Benelli remains the only inertia action on the market and it performs flawless for me.

Owned 1 for a year after I slipped on the Ice and broke the stock on my Moss 500.
It was a nice shooting shotgun. The problem I had it was so damn expensive that I was almost scared to use it.
Sold it and bought another Moss and put some fun tickets back in the bank.

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I own 2 Benelli SBEs one for ducks which Angle Port has done the forcing cones,porting and tubes and one with a ER Shaw rifled barrel for deer.My duck gun is one of the first SBE that were made and the second was bought a year later.Both guns are the two best shotguns I ever owned! My Gold light 10,and 3 other 3.5 inch guns from other companies stay at home.I am in the process of buying the new SBE2! In my opinion they are the best autoloader made!! You will be happy if you buy one!!!!!

I am a huge benelli fan, i love their guns. I own 4 and 1 on the way. 2 sbe's (advantage timber and Max 4), M 1 super 90 20ga. in timber, and one M1 steady grip timber. I have a SBE 2 on order. I have never a single problem with any gun what so ever. I hunt a clay shoot with all (except the steady grip). I don't shoot any loads lighter than 1 1/8 ounce Win. super handicaps. I don't believe in shooting cheap shells in good guns. I also don't like shoot loads that are lighter than 1 1/8 oz because I need all the pellets I can get!!! I have a slug barrel for my sbe, my M1 20ga, and the M1 steady grip. they all shoot good. I just need to find a scope mount for the 20 ga.
I also have 2 SX2's and like they alot too. but they are not a Benelli.
Note, SBE's need to be broken in with heavy mag shells before you can expect it to handle light loads do to the tight tolerances. If their is a problem with shooting high or low you need to change the shims.

outdoorsmen, how do you like you're slug barrel? is it a benelli or aftermarket? just wondering what kind of improvement you get with the slug barrel, thinking aout buying the one.

my SBE barrel is a Shaw Custom with a Burris Sig. 2-7 elctro dot scope.
my steady grip and m1 20ga are factory camo barrels. the steady grip has a bushnell extended eye releif 1-4x32 and the 20ga I need to figure out how to get a scope on it. I don't want to drill and tap the receiver, I don't want to use a saddle mount cause I hate them. What i want is to drill and tap the barrel and have a cantilever system mounted on it. I guess it will have to be a custom job cause I don't know anybody that makes one. I haven't shot the 20ga yet. the steady grip and sbe shoot good. I use lightfield 2 3/4" slugs.

My favorite slug gun is my SX2, shoots great and very little recoil. my 870 is my back up slug gun. I try to get slug barrels for all my shotguns.