LH SBE and Slugs

[CTFSH]

I recently bought a slug barrel off of ebay for a SBE forgetting for the moment that mine was LH. Then I found out Benelli does not make a slug barrel for LH SBE's.

However a bolt for a RH SBE will fit in my gun and then the slug barrel will work.

Here's my question:

Is there any place to get the bolt assembly without paying an arm and a leg?

They sell for $388 from brownells.

That would bring the total for the slug conversion to $900.

I wish I could just trade my LH SBE for a RH SBE straight up.:banghead:

 

[kirbythegunsmith]

one alternative

I had a shooter come to my shop in the same boat, with a LH SBE and no slug barrel.

I got him a spare barrel so one could be used for regular hunting, and the other got a Leupold scope mounted, cut to a handy length for slugs and turkeys, and I fit in a rifled choke tube and made a custom turkey tube for the same hole.

He gets double duty out of the barrel and scope, and has a total of about $600 saved due to not needing a third barrel and another scope mounted for turkeys.

I fit the chokes very closely to the hole and bore to minimize the transition into the tubes, and make the tubes more resistant to loosening from firing.

I have had shooters get slug holes touching at 50 yards, with a red-dot zero magnification scope, and those were standard Federal lead slugs, no expensive sabots.

I don't expect the super-fast slugs out there to be stabilized by a rifled tube, but other slug fully-rifled barrels have proved problematic for the super-speed slugs, also.

If you intend to shoot the blazing slugs, figure to get a dedicated fast-twist fully rifled barrel set-up, and you will need a good trigger job to go with the premium scope/rangefinder and possibly bedding job to get the longer-range potential, not to mention a lot of expensive shooting practice, at $2 a shot.

I have an article posted about that SBE barrel at post 245911, or search my posts for Jan. 7 pertaining to the 1100 eject, reject

The article is at the end of the posts.

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