Benelli M1 Super 90 35th Anniversary

Hickok 45 here trying to celebrate an anniversary. What is all that stuff? Too many targets back there. It's the anniversary uh for me and it's quite romantic. Yes 35 years with my Benelli super 90 and uh she's pretty much always been faithful. I can't say I have. I have some other shotguns I like too but this is pretty nice. Gives me a good chance to bring it out and uh reacquaint myself right uh because I've been enjoying the Beretta 1301 a little too much the Beretta the Benelli M4 a little too much and while this baby has been hidden away in a safe so time to show my appreciation right uh because it is a very nice shotgun and it's one reason I like the Beretta 1301 so much it reminds me of this really does so I'm going to shoot some more and I'm glad you're around here to help me do it and I want to thank Bud's Gun Shop for their support of the channel uh great outfit the reason you see so many firearms around here and then also silencer central uh very good at what they do you've seen the Vanish line in a lot of our videos haven't you and in the Sonoran Desert Institute sdi.edu all kinds of great coursework on a variety of topics so check them out and meanwhile I'm going to shoot this here okay the Benelli Super 90 M1 you know this thing came about I think 80 86 I think and I bought this one well you do the math it's 2024 and it's the 35th anniversary you're right 89 I remember it very well buying this shotgun I've told that before over around Oak Ridge, Tennessee right off I-40 a little gun shop that's not there anymore I bought it and was so pleased to have it yes and it was supposed to be one of the fastest cycling shotguns at the time and still is I guess if you can cycle it fast right yeah it shoots quite well when I first bought it it wouldn't handle lighter field loads very well until it was broken in and it took a while to break it in I had as I've discussed before I had to load my own shotgun shells to get kind of a trap load it was a little warmer than the average field load because I competed with it in shotgun side matches and USPSA just just had a lot of fun with it I won a couple of those matches and I you know I just you know so it served me well I just really like it let's shoot some slugs won't you and supering and cause some damage over there okay let's put some more in a lightweight kind of a lightweight shotgun it's not very heavy you know these Benelli's have alloy receivers but that's not a problem they hold up well the M4 is an alloy receiver Mossberg has an alloy receiver if that bothers you a lot of great shotguns have that and the barrels though are you know the bolt and the barrel lock up here it's steel on steel you know bolt into the barrel that kind of thing like an AR-15 you know hey there's another popular firearm that some of you might know about they have an alloy aluminum alloy receiver right so okay let's put one we know I don't know put a slug on the paper uh it might not go through it so we have slugs well let's see if it'll still uh rifle them out there I hit it too low I think try a buffalo see I don't shoot it enough can't tell where I'm going okay yeah shooting too low must been going between his legs there all right let's bring it up sweet ah let's smoke a pot with that slug that smoked it didn't it yeah I hope y'all are wishing me a happy 35th anniversary so uh yeah 86 this one came out and I bought this one 89 and fed it along I was over there traveling I was still working traveling in the publishing industry I remember buying it and having it in my motel room until I got home you know I didn't just drive over there and get it I was uh over there kind of working and stopping in gun shops safety on and uh I remember distinctly you know staying at Holiday Inn and uh getting this into my room right someone steal it on my car you know whatever break in and uh plus I wanted to look it over and everything so uh yeah seems like yesterday amazing how fast 35 years can go good thing these firearms hold up pretty well right you can still enjoy them years later let's put one on the target there also appreciate Alabama holster for their support of the channel see them there uh I always have one of those on me great little kydex concealment holsters thank you Alabama holster yeah how about that for hitting the bullseye didn't just hit it it blew it out I'm gonna get a little closer down here but I don't like that bucket hanging on the tombstone I want to do some damage to him you notice I uh just had to get out some metal buckets and things even though they've been shot up a little bit you know they just needed another hit or two can I shoot just a couple more I don't think I have shot maybe I have that trash can I want to finish up with him okay all right this is just uh some Fiocchi birdshot safety on and uh yeah there's just so much metal out here I've not destroyed but uh we'll put a couple more out there barrel is really warm I don't know how that happened so I might link to one of the old videos with this we have several videos on it everything's on rumble and youtube so check them out super 90 m1 benelli nice rifle I did change out the stock as I pointed out it came with a nice pistol grip much like the m4 uh that you've seen uh so I just don't like a pistol grip on a shotgun so I've done away with it I switched it out so let's shoot a little more metal why not that's what a shotgun is for having fun so uh happy anniversary mr m1 super 90 you've been pretty good to me I guess I'll keep you life is good oh yeah that's better this is a great gun for defense oh hey didn't see you guys there uh while I've got you here I want to remind you of our friends over at talon grips and ballast all talon grips makes uh grips can you believe it uh for all different types of firearms you can get rough texture or more of a rubberized texture uh just sticks right on there you know really affordable really cool option to improve the grip for your handguns or or rifles uh so please check them out at talongungrips.com you'll be glad you did and also ballast all dad has been using ballast all for many years it's a cleaner and a lubricant and it's non-toxic it works really great and we're happy to have them on board since it's been a part of our shooting endeavor for a very long 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