Am I missing something here? A lot of people are hatting on the KSG because it's plastic, the pump is anyway. Show me a "tactical" shotgun that isn't mostly plastic. Almost all "tactical" guns are made mostly of plastic in an effort to keep them light. No one #####es about putting magpul on an AR, that stuff's plastic right? So why hate on the KSG?
Is it a highend gun, nope, and Kel Tec doesn't try and sell it as one either. Is it over priced, yup. Welcome to buying guns in Canada.
I don't like anything with too much plastic on it, the less the better imho.
I have a bunch of MagPul parts including two sets of MagPul MBUS (MOE USA models, not PTS) and they are crap, I hate them, bad injection molding seams, cheap composite material, flashings and tags not even cleaned up from the factory. If you flip them
only 2 or 3 times without forceably pushing the release lever then the little clip arm that holds them folded will start to wear down (the plastic edge mushes), so now they will sometimes pop up just from recoil.
I am replacing them with actual aluminum flip sights from Midwest or Troy, and for not that much more money. My XCR-L has Midwest and I like them.
Every KSG that I have seen including all internet photos, the molding seams are very poor even in comparison to other composite stocks and parts such as MagPul.
For the price of the gun, it should be better. But I have a feeling that much of what we are paying on the KSG and most every other gun, is for outrageous profits for the middle-men who get them into Canada.
I paid ~$525 new (before tax) for my Mossberg SPX, to me, the KSG doesn't offer enough extra for me to pay twice the price. I am more concerned about the reliability than the plastic. That said, I would never hate on someone who wanted to buy one.
Why? Because I can.
