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Old April 24, 2008, 10:45 PM   #101
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Take it to your local bowling pin shoot...how well does work?
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Old April 25, 2008, 01:46 AM   #102
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would you buy a pistolgrip shotgun?
No thanks. Pistol grips, folding stocks, etc. are all a little too "tacticool" for a home / self-defense weapon imho. My 4'10" grandmother (at the tender age of 83) didn't need all that stuff when she "coaxed" an intruder back out the kitchen window of her farm house and neither do I.

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Old May 5, 2008, 04:13 PM   #103
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Old May 6, 2008, 12:58 AM   #104
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I answered yes as I have a SpeedFeed stock with pistol grip on my 'HD' (it's the back-up to the back-up) Rem 870. Just a pistol grip? No, no use for a shoot from the waist gun or a breacher. Shots from the shoulder, well aimed and well executed, that's the way it's done.
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Old May 11, 2008, 12:41 AM   #105
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well I finnally got a chance to shoot my 870 with the pistol grip only




I shot 25rds 10 #8 target loads, 5 #5 turkey loads, 5 00 buck, 5 1 1/4oz slugs
I had no problems with recoil or hitting COM at 7yrds from the hip maybe it was the angle of the grip instead of the more vertical ones other people have. It was funny the turkey loads had the most recoil were the loudest by far and spit a 1 foot flame out the barrel .

It was fun but I think I'll keep my Knoxx stock on I feel like I have more control with it.
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Old May 11, 2008, 08:25 AM   #106
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No.

If you want a pistol grip, then go buy a pistol, not a shotgun.
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Old May 15, 2008, 01:04 PM   #107
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I have had a couple over the years, and contrary to what others have said they are very fun to shoot, and "accuracy" c'mon, its a shot gun we are not talking ten rings here. The recoil is much easier to bear because your arm is not rigid. Your arm is supposed to swing backwards a little to absorb the recoil, as opposed to your sholder being rigid and taking the full force of it. I have never been able to shoot 30-40 shells from the sholder comfortably, but I can shoot my Winchester speed pump all day with the pistol grip.
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Old May 15, 2008, 03:01 PM   #108
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I have had a couple over the years, and contrary to what others have said they are very fun to shoot, and "accuracy" c'mon, its a shot gun we are not talking ten rings here. The recoil is much easier to bear because your arm is not rigid. Your arm is supposed to swing backwards a little to absorb the recoil, as opposed to your sholder being rigid and taking the full force of it. I have never been able to shoot 30-40 shells from the sholder comfortably, but I can shoot my Winchester speed pump all day with the pistol grip.
those of us who shoot clays will shoot 200-300 a day...no way from a pistol grip...not just the accuracy, the sheer amount of recoil into your hand, as opposed to spreading it out over your shoulder area would hurt like hell....
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Old May 15, 2008, 03:05 PM   #109
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those of us who shoot clays will shoot 200-300 a day...no way from a pistol grip...not just the accuracy, the sheer amount of recoil into your hand, as opposed to spreading it out over your shoulder area would hurt like hell....
That is not what pistol grip shotguns are made for...so using that as a reason to detract from their usability is like dissing crowbars because they do not make good hammers.
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Old May 15, 2008, 04:19 PM   #110
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I wouldn't mind the sort of pistol grip Nemesis has on his. The angle looks much more comfortable and natural than a standard pistol grip. It looks as though it would handle the same as a regular cut-down stock.
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Old May 15, 2008, 07:33 PM   #111
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your right Hedley it feels like shooting a standard stock from the hip

It's a speedfeed

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Old May 15, 2008, 08:48 PM   #112
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That is not what pistol grip shotguns are made for...so using that as a reason to detract from their usability is like dissing crowbars because they do not make good hammers.
and a pistol grip is no where as accurate or comfortable as a shoulder stock...never was, and never will be.........
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Old May 16, 2008, 02:37 PM   #113
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Pistol grip shot guns are not supposed to be that accurate, they are generally scatterguns
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Old May 18, 2008, 07:12 PM   #114
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My thinking.

NO.I have never had the urge to want others to think that I was a Rambo kind of guy.I can see no other purpose in having one.Being that I have bought a lot of usless things,I can understand the ones that do.alfred
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Old May 18, 2008, 08:16 PM   #115
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No I don't have a use for one. But I will defend your right to own one.
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Old May 20, 2008, 03:55 AM   #116
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I have a 12ga., 18 1/2" Mossberg with a Knoxx Breacher's grip for H.D., that I comfortably shoot one-handed just for fun.
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