Sidearms & Scatterguns Benelli M4 Barrel Guide Ring

[AIAW]

Time to clean it up and break out the silver solder I guess…

This seems to happen a lot with aftermarket forends (B&T quad-rail on mine) according to Benelli. A little play essentially becomes a slide-hammer. Maybe I’ll just go back to the factory grip to prevent this from happening again. Not like I can TIG weld that guide to the barrel itself, one being steel and the other being aluminum and all.

 

[Noob Sammich]

Oops... What's your round count?

 

[Supersubes]

Is that silver solder, or a bonding agent of some sort?

 

[AIAW]

Oops... What's your round count?

Got about 1000 through it before it "let go". About 25 percent were 00 buckshot. A couple of 3". I’ve hard that the additional mass of almost all aftermarket hand guards can cause this with time. I could see that, given how they all generally attach.

 

[AIAW]

Is that silver solder, or a bonding agent of some sort?

I think it might be a little bit of both actually. It could be flux though. I don’t see how it could be bonded and soldered at the same time but there could some high-temp adhesive I suppose.