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Down here at the local shop they have a Benelli SBE for sale at $650. I owned an M2 a couple years ago and liked it alright, plus hunted half a dozen times with the SBE2. I liked them both, though I thought they were a little light if you were shooting some of the bigger payloads. Anyways, for $650, it is beat up, with quite a bit of blueing loss and a weak spring in the firing pin. Other than that it functions superbly well mechanically. Would it be worth buying?

Offer $300 and see what happens.

If a camo dip and a new spring would make it like new, then I'd say it would be worth 5-600. But I don't know anything.

If it's an HK import many people would pay more than that. Throw a new spring in it and run the hell out of it.

NuffDaddy wrote:Offer $300 and see what happens.

If a camo dip and a new spring would make it like new, then I'd say it would be worth 5-600. But I don't know anything.

Never did like a camo dip, but I'm in the same boat. Don't know a whole lot about the Italian Franchise of shotguns IE Beretta, Benelli, Stoeger etc etc. and I only know so much about Perazzi's; just way too many models and different features in each. Again I have not a clue if its imported from HK.

R. Chapman wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:Offer $300 and see what happens.

If a camo dip and a new spring would make it like new, then I'd say it would be worth 5-600. But I don't know anything.

Never did like a camo dip, but I'm in the same boat. Don't know a whole lot about the Italian Franchise of shotguns IE Beretta, Benelli, Stoeger etc etc. and I only know so much about Perazzi's; just way too many models and different features in each. Again I have not a clue if its imported from HK.

Go look at it tomorrow, if it says H & K are the importers it is a desirable gun. The next iteration of the SBE looked pretty much the same and you can tell them generally by the round safety bar. Finally, the latest models of the SBE had a triangular plate on the safety bar. If you can get it for $550 or 600 it is probably a pretty good deal...........supposing it runs OK.

Everything works fine other than a weak firing pin spring. I'll check back in tomorrow and give you the scoop.

I have never heard of a firing pin spring failure in a benelli, and I grew up working in a Benelli shop. I would be cautious about that, otherwise pick it up. There are plenty of options to restore the metal on a shotgun other than dipping, and the furniture can be easily replaced. Benelli is Italian for boat paddle.

I've been running a HK imported SBE and/or Montefeltro 20 every open season day since they were new in the '90s and flat worn out some parts in both of them, but that's a new failure on me. But assuming the gun is in generally good shape, you could do worse than that asking price in my area.

R. Chapman wrote:Everything works fine other than a weak firing pin spring. I'll check back in tomorrow and give you the scoop.

When is tomorrow going to get here?

T Man wrote:I have never heard of a firing pin spring failure in a benelli, and I grew up working in a Benelli shop. I would be cautious about that, otherwise pick it up. There are plenty of options to restore the metal on a shotgun other than dipping, and the furniture can be easily replaced. Benelli is Italian for boat paddle.

There are other options, but none are as good as a dip.

Ron, my bad for not keeping this up to date. Someone bought it.