Just in case anyone is wondering... that booming noise you heard this afternoon was me shooting skeet with the Dominion Arms Grizzly. Well, after shooting a round with it, I'm impressed. This shotgun is going in the regular skeet rotation!
I wasn't real hot on the Grizzly when I first pulled it out of the plastic. It seemed a little bit rough, and I just hoped that with some extended use it might work into a decent shotgun. I didn't plan to bring the Grizzly out this afternoon, but I was a couple shy of a 100 straight with the Remington so I thought I might as well try it out for the last round.
I didn't figure there would be enough pattern to break the clays on the outside stations. Lo and behold, it broke them pretty good. The only ones that didn't break were 100% operator error
. On the closer stations, it crushed them. Action was smooth enough on the doubles as well. Recoil was, as expected, the same as any other fixed-breech shotgun: completely manageable, with reg 1200fps Federal skeet shells.
Even with that strange short barrel visual reference, I whacked 23 on the first and only round with it, and a squadmate hit everything he shot at. Granted, we did get to 7 before he finally looks over and says "OK, I have to try that."
The best part was the raucous laughter accompanying every concussive blast from it. A "barrel" of laughs, one might say. One piece of advice: let the rest of your squad move back some before touching the Grizzly off. It is one ignorantly loud piece of kit.
Good work, CanAm! Now bring in a holster for the Grizz so I don't have to lean over and set the smiley-face mag cap on my shoe.
Anyone else shoot skeet or sporting with it yet?
I wasn't real hot on the Grizzly when I first pulled it out of the plastic. It seemed a little bit rough, and I just hoped that with some extended use it might work into a decent shotgun. I didn't plan to bring the Grizzly out this afternoon, but I was a couple shy of a 100 straight with the Remington so I thought I might as well try it out for the last round.
I didn't figure there would be enough pattern to break the clays on the outside stations. Lo and behold, it broke them pretty good. The only ones that didn't break were 100% operator error
. On the closer stations, it crushed them. Action was smooth enough on the doubles as well. Recoil was, as expected, the same as any other fixed-breech shotgun: completely manageable, with reg 1200fps Federal skeet shells.Even with that strange short barrel visual reference, I whacked 23 on the first and only round with it, and a squadmate hit everything he shot at. Granted, we did get to 7 before he finally looks over and says "OK, I have to try that."
The best part was the raucous laughter accompanying every concussive blast from it. A "barrel" of laughs, one might say. One piece of advice: let the rest of your squad move back some before touching the Grizzly off. It is one ignorantly loud piece of kit.
Good work, CanAm! Now bring in a holster for the Grizz so I don't have to lean over and set the smiley-face mag cap on my shoe.
Anyone else shoot skeet or sporting with it yet?
