Don't get too excited, beyond some pattering (yes, I'm going to use this for trap!) I didn't really do too much in terms of accuracy testing. Just threw some big and some small pieces of lead down the range.
You want the coles notes? It's fun, reliable and you should buy one.
I was told to start with some heavier rounds, but I never listen to anyone. So I threw a couple managed recoil slugs in there and went to town. 5 rd mag fed beautifully, the firearm kicks surprisingly hard for a heavy semi, I was taken back a bit. I'm used to shooting an 870 pump, Browning Citori and Beretta Urika. This felt harder than all of them, but I have not shot for a couple months so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm running a cheaper Holosun Red dot on it, and was only shooting out to 50 yards on paper, but even me, with my poor bench shooting would be able to take down a fat zomble with this thing. I didn't really care to go deeper into accuracy with it today, as I just wanted to get a feel for the gun, I'll be updating that later when I hit the range again this week.
Anyways, after 5 managed recoil, I threw another 5 3" full power slugs down the pipe, shooting as fast as I could. I managed to keep them all on the target at 30 yards, so there's that, but my shoulder still can feel it. A couple Then I headed over to the pattering area, pumped out some 2 3/4 trap loads, birdshot, buck and decided I'm going to keep this thing to annoy the Fudds at the trap range. No malfunctions, No drama, just a ###y, reliable boomstick that induces a s**t eating grin when I slap the trigger.
The best part was coming back to the tac range and working on the gong at 100 yards. I'm not a great shot, but once I figured out where to hold I made the steel sing.
Pros: Everything above. I expected to go and use today as a break in period for this thing, but it shot everything and had no problems cycling, even in the relatively cold weather and low power shells
Cons: 2 round mag doesn't seat on a closed bolt, but I'll probably never use it. I do want to duck hunt with this thing eventually so hopefully that will be sorted.
You want the coles notes? It's fun, reliable and you should buy one.
I was told to start with some heavier rounds, but I never listen to anyone. So I threw a couple managed recoil slugs in there and went to town. 5 rd mag fed beautifully, the firearm kicks surprisingly hard for a heavy semi, I was taken back a bit. I'm used to shooting an 870 pump, Browning Citori and Beretta Urika. This felt harder than all of them, but I have not shot for a couple months so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm running a cheaper Holosun Red dot on it, and was only shooting out to 50 yards on paper, but even me, with my poor bench shooting would be able to take down a fat zomble with this thing. I didn't really care to go deeper into accuracy with it today, as I just wanted to get a feel for the gun, I'll be updating that later when I hit the range again this week.
Anyways, after 5 managed recoil, I threw another 5 3" full power slugs down the pipe, shooting as fast as I could. I managed to keep them all on the target at 30 yards, so there's that, but my shoulder still can feel it. A couple Then I headed over to the pattering area, pumped out some 2 3/4 trap loads, birdshot, buck and decided I'm going to keep this thing to annoy the Fudds at the trap range. No malfunctions, No drama, just a ###y, reliable boomstick that induces a s**t eating grin when I slap the trigger.
The best part was coming back to the tac range and working on the gong at 100 yards. I'm not a great shot, but once I figured out where to hold I made the steel sing.
Pros: Everything above. I expected to go and use today as a break in period for this thing, but it shot everything and had no problems cycling, even in the relatively cold weather and low power shells
Cons: 2 round mag doesn't seat on a closed bolt, but I'll probably never use it. I do want to duck hunt with this thing eventually so hopefully that will be sorted.
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I'll try it on Friday with the barrel extension choke and run nothing but 2 3/4 trap loads.
