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Ron your posting on the benelli M4 pushed me over the edge and I saved extra and got one. What a sweet weapon. Got tube on order . Thanks Wardawg
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Welcome to the club!
Biggest accessory suggestions as an 8-year owner of the M4:
1. If you get an accessory mount, get the AVA Mod 1. Durable, good placement for a light and/or laser as well as a QD sling mount, and unlike other solutions still retains the M4's ability to be stripped without tools. If you're concerned about the finish, 3M helicopter tape on the mounting surfaces prevents marring and has no problems with the heat of extended shooting. Unlike the Mod 0, the Mod 1 also does NOT contact the barrel directly. It floats just slightly off of it.
2. Optics like the RMR work great without adding weight or bulk, and with a very low profile mount can still cowitness with the ghost rings
3. If your factory spring ever wears out, or won't reliably feed from a full length tube when upgrading from a 5-shot configuration, CarrierComp's Wolff mag tube spring works great as a replacement.
4. If you have the collapsible stock with the sling slot, the IWC Mount-N-Slot for Benelli is the perfect complement to the AVA Mod 1's QD sling mount, and gets your M4 ready for any modern QD sling.
Two tips:
1. If you shoot #1 buck, the vast majority of 2 3/4" 1B shells are a tad longer than 00B and slugs. As such they're ever so slightly too long both with the factory spring and Wolff spring, and you can only get 6 in the tube, not 7. Five 1B and two 00B is the largest amount of 1B I can get in the M4 while maintaining 7 shots in the tube. Don't have a problem fitting the extra length of the 1B shells in my M590A1, but they're a no-go for the M4.
2. Lot of people change the charging handle to a larger one because of "Benelli bites" where the M4 bites into the fleshy bit of your index finger if you have it too close while pulling the charging handle or general difficult gripping it. Can't say I've ever had any difficulty gripping it and I have large hands, but I HAVE had a Benelli bite. I personally underhand it and pull it with my pinky finger. Never gets caught, and it's just as fast.