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Old February 11, 2010, 12:21 PM   #1
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Orange Stock

So I'm looking to swap my stock on my 870 for a shorter one and saw Hogue's Less Lethal stock (orange color). I know this is usually to help police identify less lethal guns from their regular SG, but I thought it would be a good way to make my gun easier to identify and I kind like how it looks .

I'm low speed and high drag and the purpose of the SG is to shoot the occasional trap, maybe get into 3 gunning eventually, and take some shotgun instruction. My primary HD weapon is my pistol so will not be using it in that manner. Normally I don't care about what other people think, but just want to make sure i'm not doing anything faux pas. And "Less Lethal" is probably appropriate for me anyway
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Old February 11, 2010, 01:58 PM   #2
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If it's marked "Less Lethal," I'd think twice about putting it on a regular shotgun. CDNN has several different colors of Remington synthetic furniture from time to time- see http://www.cdnninvestments.com/remington2.html .

And the Remington Country Store ( http://www.remingtoncountrystore.com/ ) has a batch of different furniture sets on closeout too- various camo patterns, laminates in different colors, all sorts of things. Pretty good prices too.

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Old February 11, 2010, 02:38 PM   #3
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If it's marked "Less Lethal," I'd think twice about putting it on a regular shotgun.
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It might be right up there with replacing your amber turn flashers with blue ones.
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Old February 11, 2010, 02:43 PM   #4
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I doubt there too much to stop you from cutting your stock down and painting it whatever color(s) you want. At my last sporting outing, I saw several semis with custom stocks - a Confederate Battle Flag as if it was flying, an American flag the same basic way, and a lady shooter had hers in bright neon pink. Unless you paint yours to deliberately try to mask its intentions, you should be good to go
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Old February 11, 2010, 02:54 PM   #5
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thanks for the quick responses. ya, i guess having less lethal written on the stock is not a good idea.
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Old February 11, 2010, 07:53 PM   #6
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Speedfeed offers orange stock sets with or without the "Less lethal" markings.

http://www.speedfeedinc.com/?location=products

So does Brownell's:

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=1...L_ORANGE_STOCK
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Old February 12, 2010, 10:27 AM   #7
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Thanks!
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Old February 12, 2010, 11:00 AM   #8
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Brownells offers orange shotgun stocks, think they call them safety stocks for training purposes.....not sure why Houge uses "less lethal" designation.
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