Shotgun Conundrum
 

I'm currently rocking a Benelli M1 Super 90 Tactical with a side saddle and an extended magazine tube, over-sized charging handle and bolt release from GG&G. The stock's LOP was about 2 inches long for me so I chopped it like a Mexican surgeon and tried to re-fit the recoil pad with a bit of gorilla glue, 100 mph tape and a whole lot of dremel time. As a result, the sucker doesn't shoulder correctly and is damn painful to shoot with anything other than birdshot.

I figure my options are to: A) stop being a bitch and suck it up. B) order a new stock @ around $200 and have it custom fitted. C) sell it and use the proceeds to throw down on a FN Self-Loading Police Shotgun (SLP).

What do you guys think?

/I'm not buying a damn Saiga, Dunedan.

Dude, you've already got a great gun... equipped the way you want and trained with for years, right? Just unfuck the stock if you're hankering to pretty-ify your sweet Super 90. Hell, I've butchered the furniture on a few of my guns (my adventures with an M1 carbine are real funny if you've had a few beers) and I usually give in and just purchase the new stock I need after realizing that while the fugly one works, it doesn't turn me on anymore.

Point: I think you should just buy a new pistol grip stock and have someone professionally shorten it. Functional, familiar, AND pretty.

As an aside, I feel the length of pull on a lot of fixed stock guns is outta control, designed for people who shoot all sideways national match like a NRA photo from the 1950s. Modern "go-go-go" shooters that square up don't need 14". While the AK47 philosophy (way short fits everybody!) is a little too much for American-sized individuals, I don't think we need more than 12-13" from the trigger to the buttplate on pistol grip'd repeating firearms.

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Hahaha, "I'm not buying a damn Saiga."

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The other option is that you could sell the Benelli to me. I've wanted one for a long time. I'm still rocking a stock Mossberg 590 or Remington 870.

Well, since you stubbornly refuse to enter the 21st Century, I'd stick with a new stock for the Benelli. ATF summarily banned import of the FN Police shotguns (pump and semi-auto) in early 2007 (No "sporting purpose," thank you George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales), so spare parts are gonna be a cast-iron bitch. They're awesome guns, and they have the smoothest/slickest pump action I've ever used, but the potential parts/service problems make it a non-starter IMO. You already have the Benelli, you're trained on it, and it's righteous kit, so why not make it run for you?

Thanks for the advice, fellas. It looks like I'm sticking with the Benelli. After putting a little more thought in to it, I've decided to hold off on buying a new stock. This one is cut perfectly, its just the refitting of the recoil pad that's a hack job - and it's glued in there. I'm going to see if I can cut/dremel it out, and find someplace to drill the stock so I can mount a removable cut-to-size Pachmayr. I'm leaning towards one of the skeet models with the rounded edges so it will shoulder a bit faster.

Nifty. I was totally going to suggest that. If you have enough stock to unfuck your WECSOGing, go for it.

It's way cheap (recoil pad and labor) and will probably be just as effective as buying a new stock.