Reloads kill your time on shotgun stages in 3-Gun. No reloads, less time. Simple equation. Saw it in action at the Superstition Mountain 3-Gun this spring. It ran fine; which is the big problem with huge mags on shotguns. Folks are getting the Saiga to run with 20 rounders, the X-rail puts the Rems and Benellis back in the Open Class game, Saiga was about to take over, they dominated the European IPSC championships.
I think I saw something about that a year ago or so. Seems that, while it works as advertised, and reliably, it adds significant weight to the front of the gun and makes it more difficult to handle.
Yes it does add weight to the front of your shotgun & makes swinging it around a bit more of a deliberate action. However, it also keeps the recoil motion almost all straight back into you, almost no upward motion at all. I observed this when it was fired even by a smaller female.
You just have to decide if the added weight is less beneficial than the added control & higher capacity.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Reloads kill your time on shotgun stages in 3-Gun. No reloads, less time. Simple equation. Saw it in action at the Superstition Mountain 3-Gun this spring. It ran fine; which is the big problem with huge mags on shotguns. Folks are getting the Saiga to run with 20 rounders, the X-rail puts the Rems and Benellis back in the Open Class game, Saiga was about to take over, they dominated the European IPSC championships.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:15 am
I think I saw something about that a year ago or so. Seems that, while it works as advertised, and reliably, it adds significant weight to the front of the gun and makes it more difficult to handle.
Still, it is pretty neat.
April 29th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Yes it does add weight to the front of your shotgun & makes swinging it around a bit more of a deliberate action. However, it also keeps the recoil motion almost all straight back into you, almost no upward motion at all. I observed this when it was fired even by a smaller female.
You just have to decide if the added weight is less beneficial than the added control & higher capacity.
April 29th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
I’m thinking a semi-automatic on a detachable swivel-mount with a red dot optic and 23 rounds of 3″ slugs would be fairly interesting.
I’ll be in my cot…