As you can see, it has the pistol grip stock, ghost ring sights, and a seven round (two piece) tube magazine.

 The M1 Super 90 is manufactured by Benelli in Italy. It has an inertia (recoil) operated action with a rotating bolt. It’s an extremely simple design that has proven extremely reliable with everything but reduced recoil loads. The gun is extremely light and extremely fast.  The HK markings (above) that I mentioned are because this particular shotgun was actually imported by H&K. These days Benelli USA imports their own shotguns.

In case you are wondering what ghost ring sights are, the picture above pretty much says it all. The front sight is a rifle style post and the rear sight is a large thin walled aperture. When focusing on the front sight, the rear apeture appears to be a fuzzy "ghost ring". Some people mistakingly refer to ghost ring sights as diopter sights. Diopter sights (ala HK MP-5) are compltely different. As best as I can tell, this particular shotgun was manfactured in ’92 or ’93 making it a pre-ban model. Truth be told, this present was no suprise to me. I actually negotiated the purchase of it myself. My father in law purchesed this shotgun new in box just before the original Clinton assault weapon ban. It was one of his many "safe queens" that he never shot. About three years ago, I learned of it’s existance in my in-laws safe and I’ve been trying to get him to part ways with it ever since. Needless to say, I finally talked him into letting it go. It cost me a bit more than my wife planned on spending on my Christmas present, but I simply could not pass this up. Christmas day we took it out to my in-laws back yard range and proceeded to work our way through about 2 cases of clay pigions set up as static targets. By the time we were done shooting, my father in-law was trying to negotiate the buy back terms. Let’s just say that’s wishfull thinking on his part. Ain’t gonna happen! With the purchase of this shotgun combined with my Para P-14 45 Limited, and my newly complted Ar-15, I think I have finally got the setup I want to get started in 3-gun competition. The only thing I have left to purchase to round out my 3-gun setup is optics for the rifle, and the belt and/or chest rig. -Thomas