Benelli Supersport

[JeffColorado]

Does anyone have a Benelli with the carbon fiber stocks? I’ve got one, a super sport, and using the “D” shims, the stock is still to high. Being that it’s a composite stock, I can’t get the stock modified. I’ve about run out of ideas with what to do, and am considering trading it in on a gas operated Beretta. Any ideas anyone?

[ZOOBEAR]

I would keep the Benelli. My problem was I thought the stock was too low for me. I traced a shim on plastic and cut the angle until I was happy. You will want yours thicker on top and thinner on the bottom.
Good luck, its not to hard to do. :)

[JeffColorado]

Thanks - What kind of plastic did you use?

[ZOOBEAR]

I dont remember where I got the plastic. It was about 3/16s of an inch thick and black. Thats about all I remember about it. Sorry.

[JeffColorado]

I think I figured out a fix, at least it appears so. I took one of the wedges and looking at it it occurred to me that the pitch is very slight, almost impossible to see the difference between the smallest one to the largest one. Since it was so slight, I took the one with the biggest angle and started putting on over lapping layers of aluminum tape, the kind that HVAC companies use to stick duct together, and offset the layers by about an 1/8” making a stepped wedge from its original plane to adding about a 1/16”. Put it all back together and it came up almost where I wanted it to be, added a couple more layers and now it fits my face, checked it with this laser thing I’ve got that fits into the choke and at 40 yards it lines up exactly where it should.

One other problem I had with is it’s weight, of lack there of. *In my opinion it is way to light for a 12 gauge, was front heavy with it’s 32” barrel and it kicked like a mule – even though they advertise that it was the softest shooting shotgun out there, my Browning O&U doesn’t kick anywhere like this thing does. Anyway, I have about a ½ of a case of Federal 20ga shells that were mis-manufactured such that it won’t cycle through my daughter’s auto, and by the way Federal said to ship the whole case back to them and if they agree that it is indeed flared, they’ll send me a coupon for a one for one replacement. Of course I have to pay for the shipping of 40 pounds of lead and they nothing for the four boxes we went through trying to get them to work. But that’s another story.

Anyway I cut open 19 of the shells and took the shot and put it in a zip lock bag and stuck it in the butt. Now its balanced and the recoil is much reduced.

Over all now it’s a much better gun.

[ZOOBEAR]

Sounds like a winner to me. ;D