PM me your phone number and I will call you tomorrow and cover it with you.
I am too lazy to type it all out and post pics right now.
Basically, take your barrel and forearm grip off, you should be then looking at the receiver with the magazine tube
sticking out. Both ends of the magazine tube are threaded. One end is screwed into your receiver, the other end is threaded and is where
you screw the cap on to assemble and disassemble. Look at the ring that is threaded on the magazine tube, that is the barrel stop ring.
It should be screwed all the way down, if you see a thread or two below it......that's the issue. Now, it has thread locker under it and you need to take a heat
gun and heat the ring to loosen the loctite, I used a commercial quality heat gun and moved the heat all around it until it was pretty hot, then took a pair of channel lock pliers and turned it down. I did not put the receiver in a vise because it will distort it unless you have the proper equipment, I was able to wrap it in a towel and just lean on it with an elbow while wrenching the lock ring.
The pliers will scar the ring if you don't take precautions but I didn't care because no one will see it and if I did care, I can order a new ring for $20 from Brownell's. I did take a piece of emery cloth and sand the burs that the pliers made off the ring when done. A lot of folks do this themselves but most send it back to Benelli. It depends on your comfort level.
This is the exact fix, Benelli does when you send it to them and it is returned fixed. Now this may not be your issue and yours could be threaded all the way down.
But only takes a second to check it.
Note: I am not a gunsmith and not responsible if you trash your stuff, proceed at your own risk
You can google this subject and find a few threads on it around the gun forums
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