This was on the second shotgun stage (12) of day 2 and I did clean it the night before (even though not completely). IF you are shooting low power loads (1 oz cheapies) this happens much more frequently. I have also had a problem when I did not get the gun shouldered properly when I pulled the trigger - off side barricade or shooting after loading before I got the gun snugged up and the recoil driven Bennelli did not fully cycle and pick the shell up. Occasionally I have found shells with fat or swollen bases on them that can cause problems. Keep the tube clean - no oil and grit - and change the spring once a year or so and you will have no problems. I had two FTFs with my Benny M2 during the Nats, so I guess I'll be calling Benny today as well. Use 3dr 1 1/8 oz loads, that wally world stuff sucks.-Larry That is the reason Benny uses the velcro side saddles. Side saddle held on with screws? Back them off some. I finished #8 out of 29 which I was surprised about since I thought I sucked so much, but it was just so much excitement and I couldn't care less about the score. Here's the video to my first 3gun match - OBcats 3-gun match 10/24/09. As I'm new to shotguns in general, I'm most curious about #5. I'm wondering if you guys have ever experienced this issue and can shed some light on how you resolved it. there's something about the tiny cartridge drop lever that I should know about I did some research and I think there are a couple of reasons why this could be the issue:ДЎ) I'm holding the gun too tight during competition and I'm going against the M2's inertia driven cycling systemДў) I'm running too light a load - Remington Gun Club #8shot 1185fpsДЈ) My gun is too heavy - my aluminum side saddle + 8 rounds, + 10-11rds in the tube are too heavy for the inertia cycling system (although Mesa Tactical says it did extensive research about this issue and did not find it to be an issue)Д¤) I didn't clean the gun enough - I didn't clean the gun after 60-70rds before the matchДҐ) I'm not operating the gun correctly - e.g. Once it did not feed a round maybe after 5-6 rounds and I had to manually chamber a round. I would manually cock the gun for the second round an then subsequent rounds are fine. Most times it's when I start with the gun loaded (10 or 11 rounds in the gun, 8 in the side saddle) - the first round in the chamber would fire just fine, but the gun would not feed the second round. Then I took it to my first 3gun match and experienced some cycling issues. My setup other than the stock configuration is this: 5rd extension tube with clamp, mesa tactical 8rd side saddle (aluminum), hi viz fiber optic I ran maybe close to 60-70rds of shells through it in testing with zero problems. I even tested the ghost load 9+1+1 option and it ran just fine. So I got my Benny Benelli M2 tactical package (21' barrel) a couple of months ago, tested it with various loads - target shot (Remington gun club 1185fps, walmart special Federals and Winchesters), slugs (winchester low recoil slug RA12RS15), buck (Winchester Military-Grade 00buck), low recoil buck (winchester low recoil 00 buck RA10005) - and all ran fine.

Problems with benelli m2