If it gets no use and your selling it in favor of something that will I'd do it.
If it gets no use and your selling it in favor of something that will I'd do it.
This thread is not helping my case of the wantsies for an M4. Luckily (?) got some OT looming on the horizon.
I may have sold more personal guns than others here. Many of these I later regretted selling. In these cases, I discovered that I had changed my mind about what I thought that I wanted to do. I found out that replacing what I had sold became difficult because demand and inflation both worked against me. Or because I just had to have a new toy, I accepted less money than the item was worth. In some cases I realized that after the sale I had neither the money nor the gun. The B M4 is a hard firearm to replace. Keep it.
Last edited by willie; 10-17-2019 at 08:48 PM.
Likewise, I've come up with a general rule of thumb: trade/sell the cheap guns, but keep the quality ones.
By cheap guns, I mean the various sub-tier, inexpensive models by the lower end manufacturers that you got because reasons. Stuff that you thought was cool looking like those GSG 9mm Schmeissers, or a Kel-Tec folding carbine, or some brand new plastic SFA Glock Killa- whatever. Those you can freely buy, shoot until the itch wears off, then dump on some sucker.
By quality guns, I mean well regarded models by high end makers. S&W K Frames, Beretta 92's, older Glock 9mms, and so on. Best to hang on to them, as you will regret selling them.
Now, today's market brings us lots of guns that are kind of in the middle- various flavors of .40 police trade ins, or panic bought extra AR's. While still a quality product, one can probably sell or trade them off without too much heartbreak.
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I don't know enough to answer definitively, but if the magazine extension is artifically neutered and runs you afoul of 922 opportunity clauses, I'd go with something else.
I got a decked out 870 I will be selling soon. I don’t shoot it, I got AR’s for defense and field shotguns for critters.
I ran it and kept short stroking, my muscle memory with it is gone and I should just work on rifle skills.
I think a semi auto would be the shit to have, one day I’ll build back up. Young family, this fire season was crazy slow, and I my aging shoulders could use a wood splitter. That would get way more use then the 870.
You’ll see a Grizzly Custom 870, an X300u-b, and a unfired Glock 19x on PF for sale soon. PM me if anyone wants to be first in line.
Well, much as I love 1911 pistols, I would not sell a Benelli to fund a 1911. I did sell a Benelli M1 Super 90, in the Nineties, because its stock design was so very brutal, and I had just broken the sight adjustment screws, during a “Select Slug” certification class at the PD range. I reverted to 870 pump guns, and then returned to Benelli after I learned about the Comfort-Tech stock. (I wish I had learned about the Comfort-Teck Stock years earlier!) I now have two M2 Benellis; my PD employer never approved the M4. An M4 is high on my shopping list, now that I am retired.
Having said that, I see a shotgun as a vital, go-to home defense weapon, and a darn good go-to defensive weapon away from the home. (I do not live in wide-open spaces; SE Texas is either crowded, vegetated, or both.) My other long guns are nice to have, but, are really just glorified collectibles and toys. Yours Benelli M4 appears to be a collectible, and, well, ya can’t take it with you, when your are buried.
If you are not really a shotgunner, well, perhaps your Benelli M4 should help fund something you will use. I say this in the way that I say I am not really a rifleman. My rifles are nice to have, but I could live the rest of my life without firing a rifle again, whereas I consider my Benellis, and my handguns, to be very important.
Before giving-up your Benelli, however, consider whether the excessive adornments are the reason you never use it. The instant I hang a side-saddle on a shotgun, for example, it becomes a clumsy thing, which I will not be there, when I need it. Weight is OK, within reason, but weight hanging from one side is not so good. I do not hang a spare mag holder on the side of a 1911, and I do not hang side-saddles on my shotguns. (I have no quarrel with a side-saddle on a home-defense shotgun, but I would not not want to be mobile, on my feet, with such an unbalanced load, and a double/triple-wide weapon is difficult to cache/stash discreetly.)
Last edited by Rex G; 10-18-2019 at 09:29 AM.
Retar’d LE. Kinesthetic dufus.
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