Any one had experience with these? I am planning on buying one in a month or so. Can I extend the tube magazine or is it fixed at 5 permanently?

You can extend it. Try www.calssportingarmory.com. Old boy has about every Benelli accessory you can think of.

Thanks for the link, the M3 looks like it has a large amount of accessories available for it.

I've had a Benelli M3 for about a 2 years now....I love it.  It has ghost ring sights that are very quick, a smooth action, several light options (I went with a streamlight M3 with a streamlight mount that attaches to the mag tube), plus...with the extended mag tube you can load up to 9 rounds !!!   It's not too heavy, with a partial polymer frame.  I've shot everything from super-light bird loads to reduced rcoil buck & slugs, and have never had a miss fire.  

I highly recommend this shotgun !!!

I've shot it in severeal IPSC 3-gun matches, and nothing shoots faster....not even the custon race guns.

 OK. You guys need to be sure on the mag extension on Benelli M3 (semi auto/pump).
 Pre-ban Benelli M3: mag extension: yes
 Post-ban Benelli M3: mag extension:  No (because M3 is considered semi auto SG).

 You can have mag extension on pump shotgun either pre, or post.

 I can be mistaken, so someone corrects me I'm wrong.

I was under the impression that you could extend it w/o the pistol grip, but I may be wrong.

The M3 always seemed like a nice shotgun to me, but the cost was a factor in me not purchasing one.  Surefire does not make a dedicated forend light for it to the best of my knowledge and I always thought it strange that Benelli offered an intechangeable choke system on the M1 Tactical model, but not on the M3.

I hope the ban expires, so that I can add a mag extender.

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