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Rifled Slug Barrel for Benelli M3?

drewto
Hello: I own a Benelli M3 (pump/auto) 12 gauge. Like all Benelli's it is flawless in operation. When purchased it was a great deal; and I had dashed expectations that eventually I'd spring for a new rifled barrel, and use it for Iowa deer hunting. Well, Benelli has told me repeatedly NOPE no rifled barrel available for this model! With regular slugs its not a bad shooter . . . but I'm looking for more accuracy. I'd listen if there's a smooth bore slug out there that is shooting like a sabot; but I'd rather find a rifled barrel. Is there a customized option out there? $300.00 to $500.00 for a new rifled barreled shotgun. To keep the Benelli I'd probably spend a portion of that if I could modify the existing barrel or replace. Replacing doesn't appear to be an option.
Am I missing some other option? I have plenty of replacement slug guns scouted, so what I'm looking for is either the replacement rifled barrel, or some customizing on the existing barrel. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Drew from Iowa
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  • HappyNanoq
    There are two slug-barrel available for the Benelli M3 Super 90.

    But wether they are rifled or not, I don't quite know.

    Well, seems like you need to find something like the:
    RWS Slugs with a sort of rifled finns on them, they are the second best after a rifled barrel.

    Those kinds of slugs will turn in the barrel and also keep turning because of the effect of wind going through the finns.

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    Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
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  • allechalley
    If your barrel has screw in chokes, there may be a rifled choke tube available, espec. if the thread type is common to other Berettas or Remington or Browning. There was an article on slugs, barrels and chokes a couple years ago in Shooting Times. The consensus was that the fins on Foster type and others DID NOT impart spin either in the barrel or afterward in flite that would affect anything. The real purpose of the flutes or fins is to enable the slug to fill the bore on firing yet deform enough to go thru choke constriction, even full.
    The full rifled barrels with sabots did the best of all in long range accuracy, that being 100 to 125 yds. That said, the RemChoke Rifled choke tube did nearly as well as the full rifled guns of similiar design. The Browning Abolt shotgun had recently come out and was a performer, however, the lowly Marlin and Savage slug guns did just as well, the Marlin in this case a little better for a third of the price. I would seriously look for a rifled choke tube first and maybe try Hastings or Briley if none easily available first before I tried refitting a different model barrel to it. You could easily buy a dedicated slug gun for what it would cost to have a barrel custom modified to the M3. Also, if you look around after season, I found a couple Marlin slug guns in the $165 to $200 range.
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  • bambihunter
    E.R. Shaw made (or makes) many of the fully-rifled slug barrels for Benelli. I've never seen one for the M3 but you might give them a shout and see if they have ever made one or if you could have one made.
    I too love Benelli, I used to have a pistol-gripped M3 with ghost-ring sights that was stolen during a move years ago and I also still have a Super Black Eagle. Anyway, for the price you're thinking of spending, you might consider just adding a dedicated Benelli Nova Slug gun to your collection. Or, get the Super Black Eagle. They shoot everything the M3 shoots plus adds the ability to shoot the 3.5" mags. Of course the M3 is the only one in Benelli's lineup to have the selective pump/semi-auto feature though so if that's something you really need then I can't help ya there.
    Lastly, it's already been suggested but they do make rifled choke tubes that work fairly well.
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