Benelli click

[LabsInTheCanes]

My SBE II is starting to develop the dreaded ‘Benelli Click’ or at least what I think amounts to the ‘click’. On about every other hunt, I pull up to shoot and nothing happens. I jack in a fresh shell, and then have no problem. Is that what’s referred to as the ‘Benelli click’? I have heard to order a Wolf spring kit. Which kit, specifically, should I order? I assume it’s the spring in the stock and NOT the one in the magazine, Order from Brownell’s?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Tuleman]

The Benelli click is a failure to fire when the bolt is not in battery. I.e. the bolt has not seated itself at the end of the chamber. The click is heard when the hammer hits the firing pin, but the firing pin...being in the bolt...is not close enough to the primer to produce ignition.

 

[duckbuster5901]

When you load shell in chamber you are letting bolt slam to by pushing bolt release and not easing it to aren,t you? Other than that thumping buttstock down on blind floor can do it occasionaly. When I think I,ve done that with my Benelli I simply jack out shell and chamber fresh round. Have never had the Benelli click due to just that procedure and been shooting them since introduction of SBE 1

 

[jrode237]

A spring may fix it. But look closely at the ramp the ejector rides on to seat the bolt head. If that is gouged, the bolt wont close completely and it will essentially do the same thing. If that section is gouged, even a new spring in the buttstock isnt going to help that problem, it will simply slam the bolt harder still and gouge it even worse. I sent my 10+ year old SBE2 in last year for the problem I described after replacing the buttstock spring didnt fix the issue. The gunsmith reshaped that ramp and the gun functions flawlessly again.

 

[SB2MAG]

My Super Vinci was doing this.

The Gunsmith replaced the recoil spring. The breech slams home with authority now. Night and day difference how it slams home and locks into battery.

 

[skiebuster]

My SBE II is starting to develop the dreaded ‘Benelli Click’ or at least what I think amounts to the ‘click’. On about every other hunt, I pull up to shoot and nothing happens. I jack in a fresh shell, and then have no problem. Is that what’s referred to as the ‘Benelli click’? I have heard to order a Wolf spring kit. Which kit, specifically, should I order? I assume it’s the spring in the stock and NOT the one in the magazine, Order from Brownell’s?
Thanks in advance!

get the Wolf spring

 

[bang you'r dead]

Make sure your chamber is clean as well. Don't baby the shells. When putting the shell in the chamber, press the button on the side and let the bolt slam the shell into battery. When you do it manually, you sometimes don't let the bolt rotate, and hence the benelli "Click". You can catch the bolt lever on clothing or drop the gun onto the butt too heavy, which can open the boltface as well. Sometimes I do it to friends while hunting just to hear the "click" and the swearing afterwards.

 

[Tuleman]

Make sure your chamber is clean as well. Don't baby the shells. When putting the shell in the chamber, press the button on the side and let the bolt slam the shell into battery. When you do it manually, you sometimes don't let the bolt rotate, and hence the benelli "Click". You can catch the bolt lever on clothing or drop the gun onto the butt too heavy, which can open the boltface as well. Sometimes I do it to friends while hunting just to hear the "click" and the swearing afterwards.

I've seen friend's Benelli's do this as well.
Begs the question: why don't gas gun suffer from this malady??

 

[bang you'r dead]

I've seen friend's Benelli's do this as well.
Begs the question: why don't gas gun suffer from this malady??

It depends on how the bolt closes within the chamber. My Beretta A300 extrema has a rotating boltface, so I am subject to the "Benelli Click" as well. It really depends on the gun.

 

[mudhen]

Scrape out the lock-up area with a dental type of pick...lots of hidden gunk gets in there...