Benelli M4 / M1014 LE Collapsible Stocks Explained (Gen 1 and Gen 2 M4 T-Pro)

Here is a video I made to help people have a better understanding between the two Benelli M1014 / Benelli M4 collapsible / skeletonized stock choices.

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Folks, Todd at Freedom Fighter Tactical. In this video, we are going to do a comprehensive explanation of the two skeleton ice stocks that are being put on the Benelli Am force to help answer tons of questions and give you guys a roadmap of what these stocks are, what works with these stocks, and what to expect. Let's get started Right now.

Hey folks, Todd at Freedom Fighter Tactical. Again, welcome to the channel. If you're new here, be sure to hit the button. Subscribe down below. Hit the bell so you're notified. Leave a thumbs up if you like this kind of content. And of course, leave a comment if you have anything you'd like to discuss. You can also call me at the phone number here on the video, you can text me there as well.

There's a, contact page on the website Freedom Fighter tactical.com where you can send me an email. Most people don't do that anymore. There's also a, a texting feature on the website in, I think, the bottom right corner of the screen and all of these ways that you can contact me, go to my cell phone so you don't need to contact me all four different ways you can contact me any which way that you prefer.

And rest assured I will get it and will respond just as quick as I can. I do have a couple of videos, to help the new guys out. One is, or courses. Actually, they're video courses and they're completely free. If you go to WW, not buy your m4.com, I teach you what you need to know about buying your M4 and what to expect and what to look for and what what to do.

Avoid that sort of thing. And then if you go to WW, build your m4.com, you will have a complete free video series on building this gun out and all the different choices that you have and things that you might have thought of that you need some clarity on, and things that you might not have even thought of.

And finally, for those who are wishing to build their gun in, 922 compliant fashion, there is a page 922 our laws.com that takes you to my 922 page. It gives you everything you need to know about nine 22 hour, along with some videos that I've made about 922 or through the years, and hot links to all the parts that count for nine 22 hour compliance that you have to choose from at Freedom Fighter Tactical.

If you don't see the part on the list, it doesn't count. That's the whole idea behind the list of parts with the hot links. So when you go over there and you see charging handle is not in the list and you want to call me up, oh my gosh, does the charging handle work? No, it's not in the list.

It does not count if it's not in the list. So those are resources to help you guys out. This is going to be a resource that I send people to in the future, because I get a ton of questions about the collapsible stocks, which one is which, what works with what. And we're going to get to the bottom of it.

Okay. In this first picture is the 70085 stock. Benelli mistakenly calls this a three position stock. It's not. It's just simply a stock. This is the stock that's been on the gun for 25, 30 years. And it is iconic. It is the stock that most everyone wants. And it is the stock that like I said, they've been selling it on the gun for 25, 30 years, at least ever since I got into, but now myself, which was years before I started this business.

But this is the stock that everybody wants. And who am I to call out why? You know, Benelli for calling this a three position stock when it's not a three position stock. I'll explain why what the two. But this stock sits on what's called a recoil tube or a buffer tube. This tube will have notches in it. Benelli makes tubes for this stock that have one notch and have three notches, and that's how they sell it.

The civilian sales. You're going to find this gun with one notch. It means it's locked in place at the fullest position. So if it's locked at one spot, how is this a three position stock. It's a one position stock because the tube dictates how many positions it has. The civilian version of the gun that has this stock on it is going to have one position.

So it's a one position stock. Just like I said, if it's got the three position start up tube then now it's a three position stock. So Benelli sells the three position tube with the stock that fits on three different positions on the law enforcement version. They do not sell that gun. It's not intended to be sold to to civilians.

It comes in this country, built the way it's built for law enforcement only. And, dealers are actually instructed to sell this only to law enforcement. This is the one that has the adjustable three position stock. The one position stock is meant for retail sales. So when you go to Cabela's, when you go to, Scheels or whatever it's called, or any other gun store, and you see this on the shelf and it's in one position, that's a gun intended for retail sales.

That gun's also going to have a five, shell magazine tube on it, where the law enforcement version that has the three position tube and the three position stock is going to have a seven, round magazine tube. Technically, it is a violation of 922. Are for Benelli to sell the law enforcement directly to consumers. Of course, they're not doing it.

They're selling it to dealers who are told to sell to law enforcement and who likely are selling directly to law enforcement. But when they have some a few guns left over from a deal with the department somewhere, they just want to dispose of them so they get rid of them. And so, those end up on shelves sometimes and sold directly to the public.

But that's not what's intended to be. Those are intended for law enforcement sales. This stock is the one that everybody's wanted. It's been the kind of the grail, stock. And it's more plentiful now than it's ever been in the history of the stock. But even still, they're rare and expensive, and they're not necessarily hard to find anymore.

But, they are, they're they don't come cheap. And, you know, this is this is what you want.

Okay, so the next picture I'm showing you is the this is stock 70132. The stock I showed you a minute ago, the 70085. I've always called that the American version because historically, that is the version that has been sold in the United States on shotguns. This version, the 70132, traditionally has been sold on Benelli M4 is in Europe.

At least that's my understanding. I haven't gone to Europe into the gun stores to check it out, but it's been my understanding. All of my sources have told me that this stock is tends to be on the, the beryllium four sold in Europe, where you've seen this stock sold in America on shotguns has been M3 shotguns and which are law enforcement and supernovae, which are also law enforcement.

And again, historically, if you ever bought an M3 or a supernova that had the stock on it with multiple positions back, you know, ten, 15 years ago, those guns were intended for law enforcement sales. They weren't intended for consumer sales because technically they're not complying with. 922 our law enforcement has they don't have to comply with. 922 but the you know, civilians do.

And the civilian gun sales have to adhere to the import laws that are out there. So, that's what this stock is recently, in the last few years, but now he has released what they call the TI Pro. A lot of people are calling this the Gen two. It's not a Gen two. Okay? This is a law enforcement only gun.

The TI Pro is a law enforcement only gun. It comes equipped with this stock on it with a five position two, which allows this stock to go to five positions. These guns typically come with an oversize charging handle, an oversize bolt release button. They come with a rail system for end, contraption that, instead of their standard, traditional four end that they've put on Benelli M4 since the beginning of time, and they come with a seven round mag tube.

People out there, consumers in the marketplace, on YouTube, on the forums. There, thinking people were acting like this is a, you know, Benelli answer to the 1301, but always answer to other semi-automatic shotguns. The evolution of the M4, nothing could be further from the truth. This is a law enforcement only weapon. It is not to be sold to customers that consumers.

The retail market. Does that mean it isn't sold to consumers or retail market just like the other version? You know, these dealers buy you know, they might buy ten guns or 20 guns for department. And then the department takes 18 and there's two guns left over. They just let them go. They get rid of them. They don't want to keep them on the shelf.

They don't want to, you know, so they find ways of getting rid of them, which means sometimes you find them on a rack somewhere. Those are called deals. You snap them up when you see them because that's a nice deal for you. The version with the 732 comes, like I said, with the, the stock, the five position recoil tube, the oversize charging handle, the oversize bolt release button, the rail system, and the seven round mag tube.

Okay, so that's the T pro, law enforcement only. It's not a Gen two. In fact, I talked to Benelli. They told me if there was going to be a Gen two. They would just simply call it the M5. This is not a replacement of the historic, traditional Benelli M4 in any way imaginable. This is simply a law enforcement gun.

And actually, I was told that the reason why they even introduced this in the first place is that law enforcement, sometimes the stocks on the historic version, the 70085, those stocks and recoil tubes are harder to adjust quickly than the version with the 70132 stock. The European style stock. Those versions are very easy to change from, say, the furthest out position to the closest in position very, very quick.

And it's just the design and the difference in the heat treat and how the heat treat, puts a warp, a slight warp into the other tubes. These, these tubes, the, the tubes on the European style, I do not think have the same level of heat treat as the original version. And, and therefore they're just easier to change from one position to the next.

So law enforcement, you know, someone enforcement has had gripes about the ability to quickly adjust the stock. So but now his answer was the T Pro. So that's all it's about. It's not about a Gen two. It's not about competing with Beretta. It's not about competing with sig or anybody else that's getting into shotguns. It's not a new M4 taking over the old M4.

It's none of that's true. And when people call it Gen two, that's what people that's what people are thinking. And that's what even if the person that's calling it a Gen two isn't thinking that people, ten people that read that comment are going to walk away from it thinking, oh, this has been Ellie's new gun. It's not been Ellie's new gun.

It's just simply an an alternative for law enforcement who wants to be able to adjust the stock quickly and eat easier than the original stock. And you've got two extra spots to boot. Personally, I think the stock is uglier than can be, but, maybe if that had been the stock that had been around for 30 years and they were introducing the American style, now maybe I would feel differently and would be opposite.

Sometimes you get accustomed to what you've seen and you don't like something that's new.

Okay, so one of the big problems that people have with these two stocks are their options with the recoil tubes. So if you buy a gun that does not come with a European style stock on it, you're going to have a recoil tube. That's what I've called the American version recoil tube. The recoil tube part number on your gun is going to be 70043.

That's an assembly. That's the tube with all the parts already installed. And if you bought this gun in America and you have that, any Benelli stock on it other than the European style. 70132 stock, you are going to have A70043. It's either going to be a one position or a three position. That's all Benelli makes for this gun.

One and three position. Most of you are going to have the one position where your stock won't move at all, and the few of you who found a law enforcement version are going to have a three position. The 70132 comes with only one tube. It comes with A70136. That's the assembly five position tube that works with this stock.

The stocks do not mix and the tubes do not mix. So you've got the 70085 stock. That tube only works with the stock the tubes made for that stock. And the 70132 stock only works with the tubes made for that stock. The tubes made for that stock will not work with the 70085, and the tubes made for the 70085 will not work with the 70132 stock.

So people get really confused over this and they let's say they get the American stock, but then they want the five position tube and they think they can buy that five position tube and put it on the American stock. No, that doesn't work. People with the five position stock and tube want the traditional stock, the 70085. So they want to pop that 700 132 off because it's ugly and put the 70085 on there.

No that doesn't work okay. The only way it works is, is if you remove the tube in the stock off the 70085 version and get rid of it and put the 70132 and 70136 on your gun. Additionally, on the European style, you want to get rid of that ugly stock. You're going to have to take that stock off that tube off and switch it entirely to the 70085 and the seven zero 700432 GB.

Okay. Now, interestingly enough, any other Benelli stocks work with either one of these tubes. So if you want to use a pistol grip stock, a field stock, they're going to work on either one of these tubes. Okay. The notches in the tubes are what's different. And the 70085 stock has almond shaped cutouts. They're rounded. And they only have one cut out for each spot.

And they're rounded and they're shallow and that's that. That stock has the right component in it that fits into those. And there's almond notches. The 70132 has square box cut notches. And there's two notches for every position instead of one. And the Benelli stock 70132 the euro stock two was what I call it. Of course, that stock has inside it notches that are proprietary or what fits in those notches perfectly.

That's why it won't convert to the other tube. So they're unique in that way. And people have such a hard time understanding that you just there's no crossover here.

So another thing going back to the discussion about the T Pro Gen two, everyone mistakenly calling it a Gen two. Another reason why, Benelli said that it's law enforcement only they do not offer this stock in a one position like they do the 70085, the 70085 version of the stock being sold to consumers is pinned in the one position the fully the fully extended position.

That's a strictly a consumer retail gun. They haven't made the same thing for the T Pro. They and we offered in the five position that further backs the point that it's a law enforcement only gun. But now he's not allowed to sell these guns to you guys direct. They're not allowed to import them for sale to you in a configuration that violates 922.

What happens after they're already here and dealers putting them out on their shelf? Anyway? That's a whole different discussion and a whole different consideration. But Benelli doesn't sell those guns to dealers in the country for retail sales. So again, if you find one on the shelf somewhere, that's one to snap up.

And here at Freedom Fighter Tactical, as far as the recoil tubes go, we actually sell them at a one position. We sell them in a three position and we sell them in a six position. We do the one position, you know. But then I already does the one position all the way out. Nobody wants that. But we do a one position with the gun completely collapsed.

Because we want it for Blue state customers who live in states where you cannot have a functioning collapsible stock on it. So I've actually got one right here. So this firearm right here, this shotgun, this is my first Benelli M4 shotgun. And it has a one position skeletonized stock on it. So it's in the fully collapsed position. And it won't adjust to any other position.

You can remove it, but it's oh, it's fixed to the one position so that I can have if I want. I haven't done a middle spot, but I've done the full collapse. And then Benelli offers it in the fully extended in the one position. So if you're in New York or Illinois, I honestly don't know if these are outlawed in New York, Illinois or, Connecticut, Massachusetts, all the blue states that like the vile gun laws, I don't know what their gun laws are as far as skeletonized stocks and if they function or not.

But in California, you can have a skeletonized stock on this gun so long as it's non adjustable. So this one is not adjustable. You can simply remove it or have it in the fully collapsed position. So that's what I did here. For this shotgun and for people like me who are in California and who want to build the gun legally, having the gun in a mall where it goes in multiple positions in California is against the California Assault Weapons ban.

So that's that.

So what you see here are three tubes made by Freedom Fighter title. This is the one position, the three position and the six position okay. Most people are going to want the three or the six. We offer the one. Like I said, we offer the one position for the California crowd or the blue state crowd. And at some point I will do a middle position, which is going to be equal to the middle position that Benelli has on their, recoil tubes.

But I just haven't done one yet because, I mean, I know the demand is there, but, I just wanted to see what the demand would be on the one position closest in first.

Okay, so when you buy these tubes, whether it's a Benelli tube or a freedom fighter tactical tube, you're going to see a couple of different numbers. You're going to see 70130 and 70043. If you see these numbers without the F at the end, that means those are original Benelli tubes. If you see those tubes with an F at the end, it means Freedom Fighter tactical made those tubes.

The 70130 is simply a hollow tube. There are no internals installed when you buy it from us. Whether you buy an original Benelli or you buy a Freedom Fighter tactical, you're going to have a nut that comes with it. And the reason why I sell the nut with it is because there are a lot of threading mismatches between even with Benelli nuts and Benelli tubes, I found threading mismatches.

I found threading mismatches in every way imaginable. So I thread one of these on every single two buy sell so that when if a customer calls me up and says, yeah, the net won't fit, I already know the nut fit because I put one on every tube. So either you've used a different nut or a different tube or something else is going on.

So I want to make sure that when you get your tube that it's going to thread. I've never found threading mismatches with the shotgun with the receiver. So just with the with the nut. So, you know, maybe I'll see that someday where a tube isn't screwing into the receiver properly. But I've in 20 years I've never heard of that ever.

The 70130 again, it's a hollow tube with just the nut. And what you're going to do if you buy this version is you're going to remove the recoil tube from your current gun, and you're going to remove the internals from your recoil tube and transfer them over to this new tube. So if you're going from a one position tube because you just bought your gun with a and it has a one position skeleton stock on it, you're going to buy the 70130 and you're going to take your tube off.

Move all the internals over to this new tube, and then put this new tube on your gun. And now you're going to be left with a hollow one position tube that you can probably just throw away because nobody on the planet is going to want that tube. Now I also sell and Benelli sells. What's the 70043? This is an assembly.

This comes with all the internals already installed for you, so that you can, just simply take the tube off your gun and put this new tube on. A lot of people want to do it. That way, because they don't want to screw around with moving the internals over. Moving the internals over is actually a very easy job, except for one part, the 7070071.

It's a little snap ring, a little C ring, and it's like piano wire. And it's very difficult to remove from your original tube. And it's, it's it's it's difficult to install it on the new tube. It's much, much more difficult to remove it though than it is to install it. So if you're going the 70130 route, which means you're going to transfer all your internals over, you might want to do yourself a favor and just go ahead and add your order A70071.

So that you're you're moving all the other internals over to the new tube, but you've got a new snap ring to put in there. So you don't have to go through the turmoil of removing the ring from your original tube because it's not fun.

But the 70043 removes all that. Okay? It's you're buying convenience. You're buying my time or Minnelli's time putting these things together.

They cost more than the hollow tube. And I also actually sell this as a kit, the 70043 kit. So there's like three price levels. There's the hollow tube where you move your own internals over. There's the kit where you install all the internals yourself, and there's the version where it's already all installed for you, and the price is going to be tiered to match the level of labor that goes into building the kit and putting it together and that sort of a thing.

So you're going to have several choices there. The tubes that go with the, the tubes that go with this stock. As you can see, they have almond shaped cuts, and, that they only work with the one stock, the 70085 moving over to the 70132, it's the same thing. You've got the hollow tube. I don't do kits on this one, but on the 7013 to stock the tubes that match it are the 70135 and the 70136, the seven zero.

I think it's I might get this mixed up, but was 70135I think is the I think is the assembly and the 70136 is the hollow tube. But I might have gotten those two backwards. But either way, it's the same kind of a thing. Now, I sell almost none of these because there's two or the these tubes already come with the stock that you want that go with these tubes.

So there's almost no reason to buy these tubes unless you're buying the stock as well, which I do sell. But it's not the same as the other version where people get the stock with the one position, tube, and they want the multiple positions. When people buy the Euro stock on the already on the gun, they already have the five position tube.

Interestingly enough, even though these two tubes don't crossover with the stocks and the stocks don't crossover with the tubes, the internals and the external nut all are working on both tubes and both stocks. All are necessary for both builds. So those parts do crossover. And that also confuses people. People think that you're going to have completely different internals on this stock and completely different internals on that stock.

No, the only thing different is the recoil tube itself. Everything else is the same. And that's why these tubes, you know, the notches have nothing to do with whether the pistol grip or the field grip stocks work on these guns or even the Mesa tactical stocks. They will work with either one of these tubes. So if you buy one of these guns that has either one of these stocks and you decide, hey, I don't like the stock, I want to go to a mesa Tactical Urbano stock.

You can do that. You can pull this stock right off and put the mesa on there. No

Okay. So many guys ask me, how do you even remove the stock in the first place? And Benelli doesn't provide instructions with removal of the stock. And what you've got to find is that there's little cut lines in the sides of the recoil tubes. And those lines will help you line up where your stock needs to be, to access all the different cuts for all the different positions, and to remove it.

And if you notice on the three position tube, there's actually four cuts, even though it's a three position tube, there's there's three, locking positions, three locking cuts. But then there's the removal cut. And you have to line up properly to find that removal cut in order to, adjust your stock off and pull it off the gun.

So a lot of people have trouble with that.

Our six position tubes actually provide some guidance with some ones and some, you know, we actually number our cuts, we number the cuts that are logical to number, like cut number one and cut number six. You know, finding number six is easy. You pull the stock all the way out and you turn it and you're there. Finding number one is easy.

You push the stock all the way in and you turn it and you're there. But cuts two, three, four and five. Those in the off position, those are actually marked really well on the six position on the three positions, whether they're mine or Benelli. You just have to find the little cuts and realize what they are, what they mean, and utilize those to remove your

Okay. As far as 922 our compliance goes, both of these stocks trigger 922. Are they add a part to the gun. So when the gun comes into the country with 13 supposed evil parts, when you add one of these stocks to the gun, or if Benelli adds one of these stock to the gun, if they're if they're selling a law enforcement, you know, if you're buying a law enforcement version that is not intended for sale to you, it is a 920 to our concern.

So you have four parts instead of three. If you, didn't have the stock on the gun, you would have three supposedly evil parts. You can go to my page 920 to our laws.com for I have videos there. I don't even like to talk about. 922 or any more because I have the videos and the resource page there.

That's where I like to do the teaching. And it there's so many. It's such a gray area and there's so many ifs, ands and buts and this and that. And I don't even like to get started talking about it because it just goes in circles. You either want to comply or you don't. And whether you have to comply or not is definitely a consideration.

Some people say you don't. Some people say you do. People say that it's an import only law. No, it's not an import only law. The law says any person when it says any person and it doesn't say any importer, it means any person. So you can go to my resource page. You can go to other manufacturers, you know, people who deal in guns.

Go do a nine, 22 hour search on YouTube, and you will find tons of dealers and gunsmiths and gun guys and, YouTube influencers who are talking about nine, 22 hour and explaining it. Believe me, those are the authorities, not people on the internet who have fake names on forums, who jump up and down every time someone mentioned sign 22 hour, they jump up and down and rage and anger about anybody talking about it and tell you what A applies.

Importer importers only. That's a bunch of nonsense. So, you know, get good information. And, you know, you can call me. Of course I can help you with that, but I, I, I send people to my nine 22 hour page. I don't even like to talk about it anymore. I don't even I don't give instructions on the phone.

I don't give instruction in text online. 22 hour. I just send everybody that page. It's easy to figure out if you have to read it 10 or 15 times, read at 10 or 15 times. It's better than me talking about it 10 or 15 times. So, that's what my resources there for. So anyway, let's recap. The 70085 is what I've always called the American version stock, the traditional stock.

The only tubes that work with this stock are 70043, which is the assembly, and 7013 2 or 7 0130, which is the hollow tube. The 70085 will not work with the five position, 70135 and 70136 tubes that are meant for the European stock. The European stock is 70132. The only recoil tubes for this stock are the 70135 and 70136.

This stock will not work with the 70043 or the 70130. All Mesa stocks will work with either tube or Benelli pistol grip stocks and field stocks that are made for the Benelli M4 will work with either tube. The only time you have to be concerned about the tube is which stock you're putting on which tube. That's it.

The 70085. Most of us out there in the field, most of us out there, consumers, retailers, whatever, like the 700085 better. We think it looks better. It's iconic. It has a lot more accessories for it than the 70132. There's limb saver butt pads that work on the 70085. Gosh, I haven't even tried if the limb saver pants work on the 70132, I bet they do.

The ones that I make for the or the limb saver makes for me that have the hole cutout. I bet they do. I haven't even tried it. But the attachments are the best. The best options that you have for cuties are going to be for the 70085. The 70132I think is personally, I think it's an ugly stock, but that's just me.

You might love it and that's okay. Okay, I, I've actually seen people call it sexy. I've had clients call it sexy. You know what? We each get to choose what we like for ourselves. And that's the beauty of guns. Just like anything else. Cars. There's a lot of people out there driving cars that I think are just butt ugly.

And these people absolutely adore their car. And there's people that think my car is butt ugly and, they like whatever they like. So it's all good. The 70132 really doesn't have any accessories for it, that the hole that's at the bottom is not an easy fix. You have to drill out that hole and have the right attachment to fit there.

I'm going to be doing a separate video for that. You can call me if you need information on that, but I recently talked to my people at Benelli to know exactly what to do and exactly what parts are needed to, attach a cute mount to that stock. I've seen it in some pictures online, but I've never seen anybody ride it up.

So I've got a video coming out soon. By the time you're watching this video, it's probably already in my catalog on YouTube. But, I'm going to have a video where if I'm not doing it, I'm actually I'm going to show you what needs to be done, even if I'm just kind of mimicking what needs to be done because I don't have a film, I don't have a way to film at a workbench.

But I think the 70132 is a big, giant chunk of plastic nonsense. I think the 70085 is the way to go. And I mean, it's just it's just amazing. But I get why people are buying the version with the 700 132. They think they're getting a new version of the Benelli M4. The Gen two, it's, you know, even though that's mistaken, they are getting, an oversize bolt release button, an oversize charging handle, a rail system, a seven round mag tube and a stock that functions to five positions.

So that's quite a nice thing for a lot of people, because it takes a lot of the accessory buying and configuring off the table. So I get why people are buying it, but it's not a new version M4. It's not a version that's going to take over M4. It's not an answer to Beretta or SIG or anybody else.

It's not this. It's not that. It's simply a law enforcement only version that happened to be sold to the public at some gun store somewhere. You happen to find it, and that's what it is. It's not anything but that. Like Benelli told me, if they're making a Gen two, they're going to call it an M5. That's just what he said.

He kind of laughed at the idea of Gen two. He said he gets why people are calling it that. He says, I guess so. But he said it's, it's it's just a law enforcement version. Alternatives. That's all it is. So that's the difference between those two stocks in recap.

Okay. So if you're going to install a recoil tube or any of these stocks, whatever do you need a gunsmith? Look, if you're popping off, a, if you're taking a Benelli pistol grip stock and you're taking that off your gun and you find that you have a three position recoil tube underneath your stock, which almost every single one of them, in fact, probably all of them have, all you're going to need is the stock itself and put it right on the on the gun.

You're not going to need to buy a new recoil tube. The only time you would need a new recoil tube is if you have a one position recoil tube on the gun, and you want multiple positions. I always recommend if you have a pistol grip or field stock on your gun when you buy it, that you remove it before you start buying to determine what recoil tube you have on it.

100% of the time you should have a three position, recoil tube on there. But as soon as I say that it's a certain as the sun rising in the morning, there's going to be somebody out there who pops their thing off and says their stock off, and they're going to find a one position tube there. So, always check it.

It will save you time, save you money, save you headache. Always check. Okay. But, if you're having to remove the recoil tube from your gun, it is lock tight it in place, it is going to have to be burnt out with a heat gun. It's not fun work. It's work that I recommend most of you do with a gunsmith.

If you're very handy and, you know, people call me up. Well, do you think I could do it? I don't know you. I don't know your skills. I don't know your abilities. I don't know your workbench. I don't know your tool set. So I can't really tell you if you can do it yourself. But if you build guns, you take apart guns.

You work on guns, you fix guns. You've been doing that your whole life. You probably have a good chance of just doing this yourself. If you're new to guns and you know you changed out your mag tube and you're feeling pretty confident and you want to go for it, go for it. But if you're having any sort of hesitation, let the gunsmith do it, okay?

It's not fun work. You know, I've seen people get them off very, very easily. I've seen people have to almost destroy the gun to get it off. So, you know, you never know what you're going to get. It's like a box of chocolates. You just don't know how much loctite they've put on that tube. And, that's going to dictate how hard or easy it is for you to remove it.

Another thing about installing the tube, you have to, calibrate the tube properly. Okay. The the the tube has to thread into the gun just perfectly for a couple things. One, to have the right length of the stock to, to, operate with the bolt assembly and the link properly. I'm not going to go into how all that works, but, the bolt assembly has what's called a link on it, and the link goes all the way back and fits into the plunger in the recoil tube.

And when the when the bolt operates, the spring in the recoil tube helps reset everything, helps reduce the recoil. It does a number of things, but, the tube has to be clocked in properly if you want the stock to fit straight. This has been a problem for Benelli. Benelli has sold plenty of these guns where the stock is ever so canted one way or the next, and gunsmiths will work on your gun and give you your stock, and it'll be candid slightly.

It's not a defect in the stock. It's not a defect in the tube. It's simply that the tube is not calibrated to the right spot so that when it is in its final locking resting position, the stock is straight. And actually I just installed this stock and tube yesterday. And it took me about 20 minutes of taking.

I had to take the trigger group out in order to remove the grip in order to remove the stock, and calibrate the tube with the nut and get everything to where it's just right so that it's perfectly straight and even when I do that, I can still kind of just ever so slightly send it one way or the next.

So we're looking for perfection. We all are. But it's not always there. It's not always perfect. It's not always ideal. Sometimes it's, you know, whatever. But if you find a if you buy a gun where the stock isn't calibrated, where you get it back from the gunsmith, where it's not calibrated right or you do it yourself, you just be mindful that you have to calibrate it properly.

The first cut is for the closest in position, and it's just under four inches from where the resting place of the nut against the receiver is. It's about four inches from that nut to the first cut. I think it's, it's it's just it's like a millimeter less. I don't I don't remember the exact measurements, but it's very, very small.

The difference and but it's, it's exact on every single gun, and, that I've played with. But you know what? It probably isn't exact on every single gun, because depending on where the threading on the recoil tube started and where it is on the gun, when you start turning, you know, every gun could have its own signature, every gun could have its own perfect spot.

So it's one of those things that has to be played with.

Okay, so that about sums it up. I mean, just about every question that I can think of that somebody has about the collapse of socks and what works and what doesn't has been answered in this video. If you have any questions, please let me know. I appreciate you watching this video. I hope it's helped you in deciding what to do and and getting a better understanding of what's going on here with these stocks.

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