After having sellers remorse for selling my M4 this spring I have been slowly looking for a replacement.

Last evening I stumbled upon an HK imported M1 with a date code of BD which with my limited google-fu puts it at a 1994 production. The best part is the original owner never fired it and I believe it from the condition. This one came with the pistol grip stock, barrel mounted rifle sights, and a 7+1+1 capacity. The outside of the box is a little beat up, but everything is where it should be inside. Now the real question is to shoot it or keep it unfired since it made it this long.

Hopefully I can get the image to come through.

https://flic.kr/p/2knF8Xf

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Originally posted by shkuhn:
Now the real question is to shoot it or keep it unfired since it made it this long.

That's not a real question.

Save it for? To sell it for $200 more ten years from now?
How much would you charge me to store a gun at your house for ten years? More than $20 a year?

Shoot it. Shoot it again and keep doing so. The M1 Super 90 is an amazing shotgun that needs to be used.

An excellent shotgun. I'd simply use it. Get to know your new acquisition.

I sold my M1 off several years back and picked up an M4 - primarily due to the wider array of accessories I was looking for at the time.

Nice score! Shoot it! I can't even fathom why someone would buy a gun like that and not shoot it for 26 years...

VERY nice score. Enjoy.

A very nice M1. I would shoot the hell out of if. I sold mine 2 years ago and kind of regret it to this day.

Love my camo M1 super 90, that thing is about as bomb proof as you can get for a semi auto 12.

Looks like I’ll have to take this thing out and put some rounds through it. I have a vepr 12-80 that still needs shot as well.

Most of my shotgun shooting involves doves or ducks so the defense shotguns rarely see use.

Shoot it.

I have an M2, which as I understand is a follow on to the M1. Mine came with the ‘steady-grip’ stock. I later bought a regular stock for versatility.

I don't know if HK marked M1s are exactly collector grade items or if keeping it unfired would pay off in a few years time.

I do know that these older guns with the early style receivers are getting very hard to find especially in unfired condition. I know because it was quite challenging when I was searching for it and that was a few years back.

If you want to keep it as a safe queen, there's no shame in that, there's plenty of legitimate ways to appreciate a gun without necessarily having to "shoot the heck out of it".

Best of all, you can always change your mind later.

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Originally posted by WRAM1:
Shoot it. Shoot it again and keep doing so. The M1 Super 90 is an amazing shotgun that needs to be used.

Ditto, I sold my M4 and am not sorry I did so since I already had M1Super 90. To this day I don't know why I ever bought the M4.

I’m still not sure if I will shoot this one or not. I will say going from shooting slugs out of a pump shotgun to the M4 was night and day.

The good news is the profit from the M4 was almost enough to pay for the M1.

A Benelli has always been a classic for hunting or home. Here is mine to which I added a new Surefire LED light which was discontinued about a decade ago, I believe. I obtained this nib Surefire from an owner who had it in a safe unopened. SF makes lights for 870s and Mossbergs but no longer available for a Benelli.

The shotgun is an “Entry” model, factory SBS transferred to me on Form 4 that was from a SWAT team w 14” open cylinder bore and rifle sights. All speaks of a well-thought-out design. It shoots all from light loads. If you get a new Benelli, always initially shoot several boxes of full power loads to help break it in and it will cycle the light ones once broken in.

Anyway, I like this shotgun.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wdAx6seF4B7jpFg78

I understand about wanting to keep something new and pristine but at this stage of my life, I want to be able to enjoy shooting what I own.

I have a early 90's vintage M1S90 that is definitely a shooter - it bears all the scuffs and scratches of a head-on cruiser crash that totaled the car, but not the shotgun.

I think the right collector would pay a premium for a new in box, HK, affiliated M1 shotgun.

As good as it is, I would probably find a shooter, like a Benelli M2 or Beretta 1301 gen 2.

an M1 is my go-to HD gun.

love it.

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IO had two M1s, sold one which I sort of regret. However, I now also own two M4s which are just much softer shooters with big slug loads. I really like the M1 but am wondering what to do with it.