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.
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
