But whoops! It wasn't an M4 as I had been thinking about for a really long time. For some reason it lost its lack of appeal to me.
I dunno maybe it had todo with youtube! Search benelli M4 and you barely find anything but people empyting their mags and going "**** yeah I got an M4, sandbox etc." I think it left an impression on me and I subconsciously associated the M4 with bland boring 10 sec videos.
Meanwhile if you look for M1/M2s you'll find a whole lot more videos of people actually using their guns in something else than shooting in a gravel pit. Hickok45 for instance does a whole lot of impressive shooting with this 20 year old Benelli M1S90, Tom Knapp had an M1S90 as well. And M2s are in use all kinds of 3gunning and the like as well.
So probably being swayed by what I saw I went looking for an M1 or M2 instead. I held an M2 in the store and it was fantastic, even with a 28" barrel it felt shorter and lighter somehow than me 29" Remington 870.
Anyway just last week I found a very lightly used M1 Super 90 with a 21" VR barrel and factory 7 shot magtube.
Pictures are big and the forum only allows 2 pics at a time so here are links:
http://i.imgur.com/yYtoM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vN3Lv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oyqzv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/O5tdI.jpg
Sadly I haven't gotten it yet, but sometime next week it should be here.
Really though I wish there more videos of M4s being used, by people who know how to use them, for something else than magdumping. Like a competition or something, I've seen maybe 5 videos total like that, in a sea of crap.