Top Summer Hits for Benelli M4 Shotgun Parts at FFT
Hey folks—Todd at Freedom Fighter Tactical. In this video I reveal the Top 5 surprise summer hits for the Benelli M4 (Summer 2025) and share practical fitment tips, availability notes, and upgrade ideas from my 18 years leading the M4 aftermarket. I cover the A60097 Benelli OEM door-breach compensator with my True-Lock choke solution (threaded barrels required), the Q1 & Q2 QD sling mounts for the 70085 stock (pros/cons, install notes), my U.S.-made 70085F skeletonized stock (a 922(r) part) that’s unexpectedly out-selling OEM 3:1, the vintage-style 70054V two-piece follower (charcoal anodized & NP3), and the LimbSaver butt pad pre-drilled for the collapsible stock—including why I ship hex screws for cleaner installs. I also talk NP3 scarcity, how OEM stock supply is months out, and why these upgrades have been the season’s go-to choices for Benelli M4 builders. Call/text me anytime—FreedomFighterTactical.com—and I’ll help you dial in your build.
00:00 – Intro & Top 5 “surprise hits” for Summer 2025
00:20 – Who I am & how I support Benelli M4 owners
00:51 – How to reach me (call/text/web) + subscribe reminder
01:28 – What qualifies as a “surprise hit” this summer
01:49 – #1: A60097 Benelli OEM door-breach compensator overview
02:17 – Threaded-barrel requirement + True-Lock choke solution
03:01 – NP3 vs. black finish: availability & why NP3 is limited
04:02 – #2: Q1 & Q2 QD sling mounts for 70085 stock (mounting options)
05:14 – Butt-pad removal tips, avoiding damage, and install notes
06:01 – #3: U.S.-made 70085F skeletonized stock (922r part)
07:19 – Why it’s outselling OEM 3:1 & USA-made benefits
07:40 – OEM stock supply: current backorder timeline
07:59 – Part numbers explained (70085 vs. 70085F)
08:29 – #4: 70054V two-piece “vintage” follower (charcoal & NP3)
09:51 – Why Benelli dropped the two-piece design & why I brought it back
10:35 – Enthusiast feedback & cost/benefit on the vintage follower
10:59 – #5: LimbSaver butt pad pre-drilled for collapsible stock
12:01 – Why I include hex screws + easier on/off without tearing pads
12:56 – Why we mod perfect guns: customization & ergonomics
13:59 – Wrap-up, how to contact me, and where to follow
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:18:23 Unknown He works hard at Freedom Fighter Tactical. Welcome to the channel. Today's video is going to be top five summer items that were kind of surprise hits here in summer of 2025. Thought you guys would be interested in seeing what people are putting on their guns this summer. Let's get started. Right now. 00:00:20:23 - 00:00:51:03 Unknown Hey folks again, my name is Todd Freedom fighter Tactical. Welcome to the channel. I've been the leader in Benelli M4 part since 2008. We are official Benelli dealers. We are Mesa tactical dealers and shotguns, all sorts of dealers for lots of different things. We also make our own stuff and carry a large selection, if not one of the largest selections of OEM parts for the Benelli M4 in the United States, and pretty much worldwide. 00:00:51:05 - 00:01:08:14 Unknown Been doing it for 18 years. Phone numbers down below. Phone numbers on the website. You can call or text me anytime. You can email me at the contact page on the website. The website has a little text feature and you can text me through that if you'd like. It all goes to my cell phone and I'm pretty responsive 365 days a year. 00:01:08:14 - 00:01:28:04 Unknown So if you're looking to outfit your Benelli M4, look no further. You have arrived at the right place. Freedom fighter tactical.com. Be sure to hit the subscribe button down below. Hit the bell so you're notified of future videos, and leave a comment if you have any questions. And of course, you can direct all questions to me. At all the places I just said a minute ago, if you'd like. 00:01:28:06 - 00:01:49:01 Unknown So I'm going to be mixing it up as we go into the fall of 2025. And we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about, five items that I thought were kind of surprise hits this summer. They are they're not necessarily items that don't sell, but there are items that just sold more than I would have expected they would have sold. 00:01:49:01 - 00:02:17:17 Unknown And we're going to start with A60097, which is the, Benelli OE, door breech compensator part that attaches on the Benelli M4. This is a great part. It's a Benelli OEM part. It's a true lock choke that I had made for this part, because getting the adapters from Benelli was pretty much an impossibility. And, to use this part, you must have a threaded barrel. 00:02:17:17 - 00:02:42:23 Unknown So if you're buying your shotgun and you want to use this part, or if you're wanting a removable choke and you're going to want to use different chokes for whatever reason you may have, you want the barrel with the threading in it. If you have a, the built in choke, that comes on a lot of the, M10 14 war enforcement style shotguns, you're going to be out of luck unless you buy a new barrel. 00:02:42:23 - 00:03:01:18 Unknown And buying new barrels are never fun. I think I'm out of them in black now. They're always hard to find. They're always expensive. So if you can find a gun on the shelf that has it already, with the removable choke, then that's what you want. But people are loving this part. I've only got a few mp3 left. 00:03:01:18 - 00:03:21:11 Unknown I probably won't do MP3 again. The threading on the choke is very, very fine, and despite extreme measures that we've taken to make sure that the coating that we put on doesn't add dimension to the threading, it's still very difficult. And I think I've got a number of them where I've got to screw around with it and try to get them to work. 00:03:21:13 - 00:03:38:08 Unknown But I the only ones I made available for sale were ones where I could. Everything would screw and mate the way it should. So, I may never do mp3 again. So the. I think I've got 4 or 5 left, and once they're gone, they're probably going to be gone. I may do other runs in the future, but we'll see. 00:03:38:08 - 00:04:02:05 Unknown It depends. I haven't had an adequate time to look at the ones that got, a little bit of dimension added to it such that they wouldn't make properly. So, you know, maybe it's all, you know, much ado about nothing, but, the black I've got, but they have been in getting kind of low because like I said, this is this summer, this has been one of the items that people have really been picking up. 00:04:02:06 - 00:04:24:13 Unknown The Q one and the Q two for the Benelli M4 now pictured here is the OEM version. In my hard drive, I'm doing a major end of summer cleanup and consolidation of assets. I have so many pictures and so many videos and so many, project files that things have just kind of gotten lost in the mix. 00:04:24:13 - 00:04:55:11 Unknown So I may have to retake photos of the black ones, but these are the three. They the black are going to be the same, except they're black and they're glorious. These go with the 70085 stock, and, one requires removal of the butt pad. That's the key. Two, there's a screw hole underneath the butt pad that allows you to pass through to the little hole on the side of the stock, and, you I mean, you mount it that way, it's nice and secure. 00:04:55:13 - 00:05:14:05 Unknown And then the other option is actually, I like the cute one personally, myself. I like it a little bit better, but, that one, you don't have to remove the butt pad on, which is actually a nice thing. Removal of the butt pad can be tricky, but now he uses, Phillips head screwdriver or Phillips head screws, and it requires a Phillips head screwdriver. 00:05:14:07 - 00:05:31:20 Unknown You have to penetrate the butt pad. That didn't sound right, but you have to be able to get through the butt pad with your screwdriver. And one that's large enough to remove those screws. And, the more you go through the butt pad with the screwdriver, the more chance you have that you're going to pull little chunks out of the butt pad. 00:05:31:20 - 00:06:01:14 Unknown And, and make it kind of unsightly, slightly on the back end. I don't think it really matters, but some people, some enthusiasts aren't going to really like that. But, the other one does not require removal of the butt pad when you buy a freedom fighter collapsible stock, or a skeletonized stock. 70085 if you get to select which mount you have and which side you want it mounted on, and I personally build that for you so you don't have to mess with it. 00:06:01:16 - 00:06:28:19 Unknown I don't do that with the OEM stocks. The OEM stocks are about $300 cheaper than the Freedom Fighter tactical stocks. And that probably has to do with, you know, we make some by the thousands, I make them by the hundreds. And but he makes them in some faraway land where labor is probably cheaper. I make them here in California in the United States, where labor and energy and environmental fees and all that nonsense jack up the price dramatically. 00:06:28:19 - 00:06:50:15 Unknown So, I made them mainly as a way to have them when there are no collapsible stocks or minimally available, to my surprise. And that's going to be the the third item. And I counted the two cuties as one item. To my surprise, this summer and actually since last fall when I released maybe it was late summer when I released them last year. 00:06:50:17 - 00:07:19:17 Unknown The Benelli 70085 skeletonized stock. That I make has been outselling the OEM 3 to 1 at my store, and I can't even believe it. I figured it would be the other way around. Maybe, but people are wanting the American made. It does count as a 922 our part. I do add the qty to it, and I do it myself so you don't have to do it and, you know, so it shows up, it's nice, it's ready to go. 00:07:19:19 - 00:07:40:07 Unknown It's, stamped underneath or it's laser marked underneath the butt pad, made in USA. And they're glorious. And that's what the surprise has been, is that they sell 3 to 1 against OEM. I still sell plenty of OEM, but their OEM are coming to a, they're coming to a, a period of being sold out. 00:07:40:09 - 00:07:59:13 Unknown I talked about this in my stash, this video. I'll talk about it in their all my satis videos between here and the and next year. But Benelli is telling me at least four months before they start shipping new stocks again. 70085 is their part number. The F at the end is Freedom Fighter. When you do 70085F. 00:07:59:15 - 00:08:29:06 Unknown So that's what my stocks were made for is if Benelli is ever out or discontinued or supply chain issues, whatever the problem is, we've got you covered. We have skeletonized stocks ready to go at all times, all year long, every year for now, in perpetuity. So that's the other what? Well, that's the third surprise hit. The fourth surprise hit is the 70054V follower. 00:08:29:08 - 00:08:49:16 Unknown I make them in a charcoal anodized and I make them in an MP3 coating. And the reason these are kind of a surprise is because like the claps will stock, they're more expensive than a traditional follower that me and everybody else seems to make. Where they're like, you know, 25, $35. And it's just like a solid red follower. 00:08:49:16 - 00:09:16:18 Unknown Solid green follower. That's what most people buy. But the 7005 for V, the V stands for vintage. When Benelli first came out, Benelli, for us came out. When I got into it back in the two early 2000, all Benelli Am force came with a two piece follower. It was a aluminum follower with a little snap insert piece that snapped into the tip, and they coated their followers in black or charcoal and had that little red tip. 00:09:16:18 - 00:09:33:16 Unknown And that was kind of like the high viz indicator. So if you're looking through the chamber of the gun, you can see that the gun is empty. There's multiple ways that you're going to know the gun is empty when the gun is empty, but it's a visual indicator. And whenever used to include that, most likely as a cost saving measure, they eliminated that. 00:09:33:18 - 00:09:51:07 Unknown I don't know if that's the reason, but I can only imagine that that's the only reason, because it was a glorious little part. You don't find that on very many shotguns. It was a nice added touch to the minimum for when you're buying $2,000 shotguns. You want to have all sorts of things that make it a little more fun. 00:09:51:09 - 00:10:10:23 Unknown They eliminated the two piece follower, I don't know, sometime in 2015 ish. Maybe. Maybe earlier than that. I don't even remember. There's been so many little changes on this gun in the 18 years that I've been doing business. I think I just closed 17 years, so I'm on my 18th year. But, that's one of the items. 00:10:10:23 - 00:10:35:07 Unknown Last year we brought back the 7005 for v4, and enthusiasts are loving it. It's a nice item. It's a little bit pricier, of course, because it is two piece and that little plastic insert doesn't come cheap. But they are glorious. They're beautiful. They're absolutely worth their weight in gold. And it's been a summer kind of hit here. At Freedom Fighter. 00:10:35:09 - 00:10:59:04 Unknown The final item, I said I was going to do five items. The final item is the limb saver butt pad for the skeletonized stock. For years, Limb Saver did not do this. I contacted them about a year ago, maybe a little longer, and worked out a deal where they would, do the drill hall, on, you know, a batch of them. 00:10:59:04 - 00:11:17:11 Unknown And I buy them now, you know, and I think others even are carrying them at this point because I don't have any sort of an exclusive, deal on it. But, but I did reach out, and I told them, I said, hey, look at we've got to sell this thing with the hole already drilled out. So people with the collapsible stock can run it, and they, they did it. 00:11:17:11 - 00:11:34:05 Unknown I mean, they did their research. It took them no time. They were amazing to work with. We got it done. And, that is something that people are doing. They're getting rid of that hard but pad that nobody likes that Benelli makes. Well, Benelli is you know, they're the best in the business as far as I'm concerned. They make an amazing shotgun. 00:11:34:05 - 00:12:01:23 Unknown But that doesn't mean every detail of the shotgun is amazing. And I think the butt pad, I mean, it's just, you know, it's a butt pad. It's just a solid piece of rubber chunk. No one likes it. And the limb saver is glorious. It is nice and spongy. And even if you're not bothered by the recoil, even if you don't really need, a more comfortable but pad, it's a nice addition when you've already tricked this gun out to probably the tune of 2500 to $4500. 00:12:01:23 - 00:12:19:19 Unknown I mean, people go nuts with this gun and do all sorts of interesting things. And so, you know, I think the limb saver pad is under 60 bucks. It's kind of a no brainer. And when I sell it. So historically and traditionally, Limb Saver does not sell screws with their butt pads. And I changed that years ago. 00:12:19:19 - 00:12:38:11 Unknown When you buy the limb saver pad, what you're going to get is not a Phillips head screw. You're going to get two hex screws that use a hex wrench, which is much easier going through but pads and doesn't break out chunks of butt pad. If you have to remove the butt pad for any reason, it's very easy to do. 00:12:38:13 - 00:12:56:05 Unknown It's harder to strip anything. It's just what we do here at Freedom Fighters. Try to make it easy on you when you buy your part. So those are the five items. These have been summer hits, and I've been very pleased with the results of some of these items. Because, you know, they're not necess some of them aren't necessities. 00:12:56:11 - 00:13:21:17 Unknown And actually, this gun out of the box is about as close to perfect as you can get. So almost anything you're doing to it isn't as a necessity, to be fair. But we love as enthusiasts. We love to trick out our gun. We love to make it better. You know, some people do it with guns. Some people buy, you know, but they buy a Porsche and they drive it down the street, and they put new wheels on it and a new fin on it and new seats and a new steering wheel. 00:13:21:19 - 00:13:41:11 Unknown And what was wrong with everything they pulled off of it? They came from Porsche. It's nothing's wrong with it. It's just that these guys want something remarkable. They want something better. They want something customized. They want something that appeals to them. They want something that's there. You know, it's their pet project. And, that's what we do here at Freedom Fighter. 00:13:41:11 - 00:13:59:10 Unknown We assist you in that and build this gun to be, you know, as close to perfection as possible. I've always said we're here at Freedom Fighter. Technically perfect perfection. So anyway, that's it, folks. I'm glad that you tuned in to watch the video. Thank you so much. Be sure to hit the subscribe button down below if you haven't already. 00:13:59:12 - 00:14:16:21 Unknown Hit the bell so you're notified of future videos. Be sure to leave a comment down below. And I'm working at doing a lot of content here and on Instagram at Freedom Fighter Tactical, so please join us over there as well. I hope to see you there. Thank you for your support. Take care and be safe.