Hello All!
nvrquit: The longer gun in the newest set of photographs is equipped with a 19 inch barrel and a two round remington magazine extension. The 14 inch gun is equipped with a Knight Armament RAS Flip up front sight (product #99051) and an ARMS #40 flip up rear sight. I mail ordered them from Sableco (
http://www.sableco.net) and while they are expensive, they are in my opinion both very good products.
willyjixx: I am currently building an e-mail list of people to notify as soon as I take delivery of the first set of adapters. People on the list will be given the opportunity for first dibs. If you would like, send me an e-mail to
[email protected] and I would be more than happy to add you to the list.
CWL: Thanks so much for your encouragement! I am still trying to quantify with more certainty the cost of doing business across international borders; my target price for adapters sold in the US is between $100 and $115 American dollars.
CWL & Rob62: I have long lusted for a surefire illuminated forend, and have almost bucked up the mega cash required for one more than once. Then one showed up at the local range I frequent and I had the opportunity to play with it for the afternoon. Was I ever dissapointed and glad I did not buy one! My dissatisfaction centered around it's huge girth and clammy soft plastic feel. I also felt the switching mechanism left alot to be desired. All that being said, I have to confess that the seemingly ga-zillion candlepower shaft of brilliant light that dissolves darkness on command is pretty seductive. It has had me thinking about the best way to incorporate an illuminator ever since. Currently, some of my thoughts are:
1. I really like the M3 illuminator type light. They are compact, very bright, and easily adaptable to the picatinny standard.
2. I recently acquired in a trade both a pump action and semi auto fabarm shotgun. (I'll post some pictures in the appropriate fabarm related discussion topics as soon as I can bring them home...they are at the range/shop right now pending my government to get their butts in gear with respect to the paperwork!) They both came with a longer forend with a short picatinny rail screwed upfront onto the bottom. I thought this was pretty cool until I fired them and found that even with the extended forend, the sharp edges of the rail made for some moderate punishment (with broken skin) on my support hand. I have not written the concept off though and I still have a lot more playing, er...make that research to do.
3. So with 1 and 2 in mind, I've been thinking that one solution is to manufacture a t-type picatinny to picatinny type fixture that would allow the M3 illuminator to be mounted sideways off the full length rail accessory to my stock adapter system. Esthetically though, I like the light inline (ie: underneith) the gun and am still toying with some other ideas for mounting to a forend.
As always, spirited feedback and discussion is highly encouraged and valued!
I agree with many of you that the Bad-A**-Cool factor of the gun is extremely high....I was out shooting slug and buck through both guns again this evening and had a big grin on my face the whole time....
Thanks again for your feedback....
Take care...
BrobeeBiter
!). I believe they are also pretty expensive, like $25/round. If this were true, it would be my intent to spin my own casings and fabricate my own ammunition.
