Dominion Arms Grizzly Shotgun - 12.5 w/Ghost Ring Sights

Ok thanks all the videos, pictures and reviews I've seen don't mention the receiver being drilled out for rails and optics. Also all the pics I see there's nothing close up on the rear sight area. Any ideas about mounting a flashlight of some kind to this little gun? I ask because I moose hunt in an area with a large bear population and there's often food and garbage in the camp areas. I would like this as a multi purpose bush gun and home/camp defense gun
 
MiniMe said:
Has anyone tried it out?
The description says it has Interchangeable Screw-In Choke.
Does the choke help at all on such a short barrel?
BTW, shotgun noob here...

https://www.canadaammo.com/product/detail/dominion-arms-grizzly-shotgun-12-5-w-ghost-ring-sights/
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Owned one since they first came out.
My Grizzly has 12 1/2" barrel and the tube magazine (vs the box magazine) and the ghost ring sights.
I don't believe my gun came with a choke.
If it did I musta misplaced it.
No need for a choke for what I use it for.
This is the best slug gun I have ever held in my hands with one ragged hole groups at 25 yards with most brands of slugs.
For "shotgun only" deer hunting zones you can't beat it.

It's a real stew pot filler.
I shot 57 partridge (ruffed grouse) with it last fall in NE Ontario and as many if not more in previous years.
I've heard of some having cycling/feeding troubles with their DA guns (especially the ones with box magazines) but I've never had a single malfunction or misfire with mine.
Speaking from my personal experience my Dominion Arms Grizzly is the best purchase I've made in several years.
 
Great little Cannuck shotgun but don't forget it in the trunk of your car when you're going stateside like a buddy of mine did recently.
It's a triple whammy down there if you get caught.
1) it has a less than 16" barrel
2) it is made in China
3) it can't be Form 6NIA'd

He spent a week in Michigan visiting relatives and came back and nobody at the yank border post or the cannuck post on the return trip even mentioned guns.
He almost filled his drawers with potato fertilizer when I told him how much shyt he would have been in if caught down there with that gun.
Just a word to the wise.
The DA Grizzly doesn't travel well.
 
I have the mag fed one, it was pretty rough, I toke some emery cloth to it and re blued a few pieces, basically just do some re finishing to a few parts and it has functioned flawlessly ever since. I have a tendency to short stroke it and end up with a double feed, one of thoes things I had to work out. I replaced the 12 1/2 with an 18 but I ran the 12 inch barrel in a three gun and had no troubles with any of the courses.
 
i bought a few from Canammo, comes with MOD choke. I have used it a few times with bird shot and slugs. love it. has a pretty good kick and takes both 2 3/4 inch and 3 inch shells.

i just bought some 00 buck but havent tried it yet. i love this shot gun. and for the price you cant go wrong. get one.
 
I have the gun you mention.

mine has no choke at all.

I use it for rabbit and grouse hunting.... and bear defense but you cant say that in Nova Scotia or the cops will charge you... self defense is illegal..... gotta pretend to be hunting coyotes. Either way you still have your gun in the woods so I assume that "self defense" as a purpose is in and of itself dangerous at a "thought crime"of some sort.


If you shoot a grouse that is less than 25 feet from you with bird shot it dies.

If you shoot a grouse that is between 25 feet and 75 feet you stun it well enough that you can run up and shoot it point blank, it dies.

Dont even try to shoot it beyond 75 feet, it flies away.............

All my shots are VS stationary targets....... I dont even try to hit the moving ones. Half the time is that damn owl behind myplace so no reflex-aim-shoot for me..... I take my sweet time to stalk, identify, shoot. Or blind hunting..... they love apples.

Just sit really still next to an apple tree works sometime :0



Rabbits.... same distances more or less.


#4 birdshot I think


PS: big middle finger to the "bad scary guns" MP who said you cant hunt with the DA outlaw and ranted on and on about the "outlaw" name..... this DA 12.5 holds multiple rounds, is just as short, and is just fine for hunting


oh this could be the vid, maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0KYnpeZVnQ
 
CanadianReich said:
I have the gun you mention.

mine has no choke at all.

I use it for rabbit and grouse hunting.... and bear defense but you cant say that in Nova Scotia or the cops will charge you... self defense is illegal..... gotta pretend to be hunting coyotes. Either way you still have your gun in the woods so I assume that "self defense" as a purpose is in and of itself dangerous at a "thought crime"of some sort.


If you shoot a grouse that is less than 25 feet from you with bird shot it dies.

If you shoot a grouse that is between 25 feet and 75 feet you stun it well enough that you can run up and shoot it point blank, it dies.

Dont even try to shoot it beyond 75 feet, it flies away.............

All my shots are VS stationary targets....... I dont even try to hit the moving ones. Half the time is that damn owl behind myplace so no reflex-aim-shoot for me..... I take my sweet time to stalk, identify, shoot. Or blind hunting..... they love apples.

Just sit really still next to an apple tree works sometime :0



Rabbits.... same distances more or less.


#4 birdshot I think


PS: big middle finger to the "bad scary guns" MP who said you cant hunt with the DA outlaw and ranted on and on about the "outlaw" name..... this DA 12.5 holds multiple rounds, is just as short, and is just fine for hunting


oh this could be the vid, maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0KYnpeZVnQ
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Watched the youtube video which was a vivid reminder on how arrogant, smug and quite frankly sickening :puke:Jack Harris is.
 
I am not at all off the deep end of hyper-ridiculous gun ownership, but that "bad scary guns" clip makes me ill.

I thought NL had the highest percentage of PALs in Canada, so hopefully that guy got voted out of relevance.
 
Have use a turkey choke on a 12.5" to slaughter tons of gophers out to 50m.

Worked great. Chokes make a world of difference.
 
Fudge Monkey said:
The mask on the wall to ward evil spirits, It's the second I've seen in.. 30 years.
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I wonder how much longer I'll be able to use my very handy and fast swinging DA Grizzly for hunting?
The short barreled rifles and shotguns are on the RCMP shyt list and I'm sure they'll push the next LPC government for an OIC banning them.
I recall with disgust when Turdo Sr restricted my Planfield M1 (30 M1 cal) which had an 18" barrel that I used to hunt blacktail deer with (a smaller subspecies of whitetail deer).
They wouldn't even allow me to weld a permanent flash hider to it to put the barrel over the legal 18 1/2" minimum length.
I sold it a month later for a fraction of what I paid for it. Used that gun safely for hunting for years and never once had the urge to committ a mass killing.
Got stung on one 12-3 converted automatic that I bought from one of the little square SIR catalogs (remember them? - about the size of a dime store novel) back in the 1980s. Sold it to a 12-3 grandfathered licensee.
If I can't take em hunting I don't want em taking up space in my gun locker.
 
I purchased the same shotgat recently. chokes have made a significant difference in my patterns. as for reliability, I've shot perhaps 300-400 rounds in mine. got it 2 months ago. haven't really given a detailed cleaning yet, besides the odd drop of oil in the action and bore snake down the barrel. 0 malfunctions so far, with many different types of shot and shells. awesome little blaster. all of my friends love it and keep asking me where they can get one.
 
Would chokes make too much difference if the barrel was 18.5" instead of 12.5"?
I see Remington has the 870 express turkey with 21" barrel that accepts chokes, and there is the 18.5" tactical with that door breach thingy that can be unscrewed and replaced with chokes.

I'm not a shotgun guy, so I'm trying to understand "choke vs barrel length" relation so I can get something that would be useful for anything, from range fun to turkey hunting. The only thing is, I don't like long barreled shotguns, and I don't want to buy several shotguns.

The DA 12.5 with chokes seems to be too good to be true!



rickymo said:
I purchased the same shotgat recently. chokes have made a significant difference in my patterns. as for reliability, I've shot perhaps 300-400 rounds in mine. got it 2 months ago. haven't really given a detailed cleaning yet, besides the odd drop of oil in the action and bore snake down the barrel. 0 malfunctions so far, with many different types of shot and shells. awesome little blaster. all of my friends love it and keep asking me where they can get one.
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MiniMe said:
I can get something that would be useful for anything, from range fun to turkey hunting. The only thing is, I don't like long barreled shotguns, and I don't want to buy several shotguns.
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honestly this wouldn't be anywhere near my first choice for hunting. its far too heavy for what it is, and anything beyond 50m is kind of a shot in the dark, for me at least. I have had decent accuracy with slugs out to 50. might trying pushing that out when I go shoot tomorrow. Personally id rather blast birds with a break action with a really long barrel. This guns niche is more of a door buster or self defence type gun (from predatory animals of course...) but the barrels are interchangeable with other 870s, from what I hear. You could always just buy a longer barrel and slip that on when you want to hunt.
 
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