About that dual brake shotgun
Linked the pic yesterday. It’s a design by Dreadnaught Industries who do custom Saiga guns.
Alex the owner writes:
That is a pure competition gun, designed and built for the “action shooting” games like International Multi-Gun or USPSA 3-Gun. The mid-barrel compensators cover a series of small ports that introduce gas into a larger chamber with either angled vents or internal baffles in order to reduce muzzle movement. Testing at Dreadnaught led us to believe that the combination of angled ports and a mid-barrel compensator reduced perceived recoil by about half. Jim, a great guy and talented gunsmith over at Firebird Precision, builds a heavily raked single chamber design (usually employed in pairs) that also works well and looks rather sporty!
Indeed, it does look sporty.
July 14th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
The text at the page is pretty funny…
The Kalashnikov action predates the 1100 by sixteen years… :p
July 14th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
That looks sporty? It looks like it needs a tripod.
July 14th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Sorry for the wrong impression, that is not one of my guns…I understand the concept and built similar shotguns, but mine are a little less…snout heavy. They run about 7.5 pounds, empty, complete with red dot, and shoot quite flat with a 1 1/8 oz 3 1/4 dram load:
http://www.dreadnaught-industries.com/images/file/us/Fred_shotgun_3gun2008.jpg
http://www.dreadnaught-industries.com/images/file/us/Alex_shotgun_3gun2008.jpg
Thanks again,
Alex
July 14th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
ah. no worries.
July 14th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
The Queen of Snark commenting on my (admittedly inaccurate, although it does (as intended) tend to annoy the too-serious gear conscious folks lurking among the three-gun shooters) snark…I’m giddy 🙂
Alex