Pistol grips - good or bad?
- Thread starter jerichoholic_ninja
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Farmer Harv
CGN frequent flyer
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- Scratchnwin
Hmmm.
I resemble that remark.
I'd be offended if I wasn't so flattered.
Permission to use as a sig line?
Mall Ninja
I have a deer shotgun something like that, too. It's a Beretta with a Mall Ninja pistol grip stock but it does work well here in the thicker stuff and cedar swamp. Reduces felt recoil until you try shooting from the hip.
I'm an old feller so I'm with Farmer Harv in finding the Choat stock look kind of amusing. I have an original stock to go back to when I tire of the badass wannabe look.
I have a deer shotgun something like that, too. It's a Beretta with a Mall Ninja pistol grip stock but it does work well here in the thicker stuff and cedar swamp. Reduces felt recoil until you try shooting from the hip.
I'm an old feller so I'm with Farmer Harv in finding the Choat stock look kind of amusing. I have an original stock to go back to when I tire of the badass wannabe look.
Regular or decaf? Crust on or off? It's all a matter of taste, preference and comfort. My biggest enemy is arthritis, so bending my wrist for the "traditional" grip on a shotgun or rifle was painful. Once I put pistol grips on my 1300 Defender I never looked back.
Do you mean "resemble"? Or resent?
I think that he meant resemble! I am surprised that someone with wit as sharpe as yours does not recognize it when he sees it.
or were you just running your grammar check
"One of the guys at our club brought out his "Tactical Shotgun" with a "pistol grip" to shoot Trap with. He put it away after 12 shots. Couldn't stand the recoil with target loads."
"Shotgun designers understand that their product will mostly be used to shoot flying targets. They stick with stock designs more suited for that purpose and that have been proven over a more than a century. The full stock with separate pistol grip doesn't work as well for this purpose due to the position it puts the rear hand relative to the forward hand. A few trap guns have been tried with thumbhole stocks but they were not well received."
Hmmmm, based on these responses, it seems that there *is* a difference beyond personal preference. I'm doing some preliminary research to see if I want to purchase a shotgun. I'll keep this in mind as I go along!
"Shotgun designers understand that their product will mostly be used to shoot flying targets. They stick with stock designs more suited for that purpose and that have been proven over a more than a century. The full stock with separate pistol grip doesn't work as well for this purpose due to the position it puts the rear hand relative to the forward hand. A few trap guns have been tried with thumbhole stocks but they were not well received."
Hmmmm, based on these responses, it seems that there *is* a difference beyond personal preference. I'm doing some preliminary research to see if I want to purchase a shotgun. I'll keep this in mind as I go along!
Ok all bullscat aside. go down to your local shot and compare shouldering and swing both styles. I'm 99% sure you are going to find the pistol grip difficult if not uncomfortable to swing, but faster to shoulder. They certainly have their place, but when was the last time you saw one in a duck blind?
as mentioned above, pistol grips make a shotgun easier to "Aim", but a regular stock(which priviously was the pistol grip stock) is muck more suitable for pointing..IE: wingshooting, skeet, trap
as mentioned above, pistol grips make a shotgun easier to "Aim", but a regular stock(which priviously was the pistol grip stock) is muck more suitable for pointing..IE: wingshooting, skeet, trap
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- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
A design that would allow one hand shooting in a fair to good comfort zone.Shooting from the hip also works.
Not great for wing shots, but would shine hunting over decoys. Pass shooting over head not that great...
Not great for wing shots, but would shine hunting over decoys. Pass shooting over head not that great...
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- Grande Prairie, Alberta
i'm a big fan of pistol grips of any kind. i have 2 Lee Enfield's. one with a pistol grip monte carlo style stock and the other with the straight english style. i can't stand the english style. it's uncomfortable and very awkward. AR's, shotguns etc all feel better to me with a pistol grip. even lever action rifles are much better suited to my hand with a pistol grip. i also enjoy shooting my shotgun with it's pistol grip with no butt stock.
needless to say, if it doesn't have a pistol grip of some sort, i won't buy it.
needless to say, if it doesn't have a pistol grip of some sort, i won't buy it.
i'm a big fan of pistol grips of any kind. i have 2 Lee Enfield's. one with a pistol grip monte carlo style stock and the other with the straight english style. i can't stand the english style. it's uncomfortable and very awkward. AR's, shotguns etc all feel better to me with a pistol grip. even lever action rifles are much better suited to my hand with a pistol grip. i also enjoy shooting my shotgun with it's pistol grip with no butt stock.
needless to say, if it doesn't have a pistol grip of some sort, i won't buy it.
This kind of pistol grip? This is now what a pistol grip is called on a shotgun.
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- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
This kind of pistol grip? This is now what a pistol grip is called on a shotgun.
I think it is a plot by those shootie shoty guys to undermine shotgun termanology
There have been pistol grips on shotguns way before the shootee crowd started to call those one handed grips, pistol grips. WTF they even put pistola grips on the forestock of pump shotguns What's next? Are they going to rename pumps jerkit guns
I think it is a plot by those shootie shoty guys to undermine shotgun termanology
Thankyou.
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- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
My vote for best closing comment so far this year.
Just great, you now have insulted a few people on the forum who own guns of this design, shame on you, Six of the best trousers Down!
Clearly, because the Fudd's have a dead lock on all knowledge and understand that hundreds of dollars is wasted on tacticool gear, but to overpay from $1000 to $25,000 for gold inlays, elaborate scrolling, a second barrel, a second trigger, all while having a topless philipino model rub oil into the stock made from the heart of the bastogne walnut tree imported from Spain. These are purely functional changes and are fair in price. They have nothing to do with trying to appear like the pimp for a 1600's era French nobleman while at the range.
Gee Claybuster. With such infallible logic I agree with you wholeheartedly.
