I took the new Retrograde out today to try it out.
I had some 1oz target slugs to shoot. Notice that there’s no speed printed on that label.
This barrel has a very low front bead sight. So my first couple of shots were very high using the front bead to sight. I knew this was coming. (I have a taller front sight ordered.) It took four shots to figure out my hold at 100m. Which was around 2 feet low hold. Once I figured this out, I rarely missed at 100m on the steel. I even made hits on the smaller pieces of steel besides the big silhouette. Thus the title of the thread; my rifle-shotgun. So much fun bang’n away like this.
Now for the cool factor. I’ve never chrony’d a slug from a scattergun. I tried it once with a LabRadar and I wasn’t surprised that it couldn’t pick up the big chunk of lead. Someone at the range told me that only slugs with the wad glued to the lead can be picked up by the LabRadar. It seems to get confused with two pieces flying down range.
Enter the little Garmin wonder. The Garmin only picked up 19 out of the 25 rounds that I fired. To be fair, I believe that I was moving away from the chrony as I was firing. And I got too far away from it. I’ll give the Garmin the benefit of the doubt. Now, just look at those spread and SD numbers!
The fellow shooting next to me was jealous with those numbers. I was amazed. That is pretty consistent ammo! And it’’s just cheapo target grade lower recoil shells.
Other then that speed stuff, the Retrograde is very accurate. Very consistent as well. Absolutely no issues loading, chambering, or extracting. It shouldered beautifully and sighted easily. I loaded 6 in the mag and one in the chamber for a total of 7 on board. I think it handles better than my 590a1 with the 20” barrel. Probably because it’s lighter and has the shorter barrel.
Fun times! AND, it was +18c today. Not bad for April 2nd!
I had some 1oz target slugs to shoot. Notice that there’s no speed printed on that label.
This barrel has a very low front bead sight. So my first couple of shots were very high using the front bead to sight. I knew this was coming. (I have a taller front sight ordered.) It took four shots to figure out my hold at 100m. Which was around 2 feet low hold. Once I figured this out, I rarely missed at 100m on the steel. I even made hits on the smaller pieces of steel besides the big silhouette. Thus the title of the thread; my rifle-shotgun. So much fun bang’n away like this.
Now for the cool factor. I’ve never chrony’d a slug from a scattergun. I tried it once with a LabRadar and I wasn’t surprised that it couldn’t pick up the big chunk of lead. Someone at the range told me that only slugs with the wad glued to the lead can be picked up by the LabRadar. It seems to get confused with two pieces flying down range.
Enter the little Garmin wonder. The Garmin only picked up 19 out of the 25 rounds that I fired. To be fair, I believe that I was moving away from the chrony as I was firing. And I got too far away from it. I’ll give the Garmin the benefit of the doubt. Now, just look at those spread and SD numbers!
The fellow shooting next to me was jealous with those numbers. I was amazed. That is pretty consistent ammo! And it’’s just cheapo target grade lower recoil shells.
Other then that speed stuff, the Retrograde is very accurate. Very consistent as well. Absolutely no issues loading, chambering, or extracting. It shouldered beautifully and sighted easily. I loaded 6 in the mag and one in the chamber for a total of 7 on board. I think it handles better than my 590a1 with the 20” barrel. Probably because it’s lighter and has the shorter barrel.
Fun times! AND, it was +18c today. Not bad for April 2nd!
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