ShaiVong
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Up until now I've been mostly a rifle/pistol man (mostly rifles). I love my AR, and my Glock and assorted C&R's. I bought a Nova a month or two ago, and took it out once skeet shooting. I wasnt that impressed with it, I was trying to do something with it that its not supposed to do.. Shoot skeet out of the 18" brl with ghost ring sights. It just spreads way to fast for skeet, and I know it would but I wanted to give it a try.
Yesterday I took what remaining 00 I had (about 10 rounds left over, but got 50 speer rounds in the mail later that day). This was the first time I have patterned it for my house. I measured 12 yards as absolute max range in my apt. At that range the 00 (2.75" shells, dont know how my 3.5" patterned, ran out of them) covered the entire torso of a 'badguy with gun' torso pretty evenly, can't wait to try the speer's.
I really like shooting buck and slugs out of it. For some reason the recoil doesnt bother me at all. I fired like 10 3.5" slugs leaning over the trunk of my car and bracing my elbows on it for stability (trying to adjust ghost rings for POI). It was cool when I would miss the target, which was a skeet on the face of a large downed tree, to see the slug skipping the length of the field into the woods. Looked like a cannon ball!
But firing it, mostly target loads, at badguy prints and anything else in the pit was a BLAST. I've been practicing a ton in the apt with snapcaps and just dryfiring to get the shucking down. I wont use 3.5" in it because the last shell would always jam coming out of the feed tube, like the spring wasnt strong enough. I did get an extension tube for it and i blame it on that. The 3.75's work great though.
I just love the feel of firing it. For some reason pulling the trigger feels so much more significant. I can strafe by a target and dump 5.56 rounds so fast with my match trigger it feels like FA, and thats cool, but the shotgun feels like every shot is a precision round from a bolt rifle. The action of pumping it then dropping the hammer feels so much more 'final'. Especially sense i have like only 7 rounds.
So what my rambling means is this: I have found that playing with my SG is deeply satisfying for some reason. I think it might just edge out the AR as my 'go to' gun, and even SHTF gun, once I get the hang of firing slugs and hitting things further than 25 yards with them.
How accurate is a SG without a rifled barrel? Is it worth getting a rifled one, and will it do ok with 00/bird?
Yesterday I took what remaining 00 I had (about 10 rounds left over, but got 50 speer rounds in the mail later that day). This was the first time I have patterned it for my house. I measured 12 yards as absolute max range in my apt. At that range the 00 (2.75" shells, dont know how my 3.5" patterned, ran out of them) covered the entire torso of a 'badguy with gun' torso pretty evenly, can't wait to try the speer's.
I really like shooting buck and slugs out of it. For some reason the recoil doesnt bother me at all. I fired like 10 3.5" slugs leaning over the trunk of my car and bracing my elbows on it for stability (trying to adjust ghost rings for POI). It was cool when I would miss the target, which was a skeet on the face of a large downed tree, to see the slug skipping the length of the field into the woods. Looked like a cannon ball!
But firing it, mostly target loads, at badguy prints and anything else in the pit was a BLAST. I've been practicing a ton in the apt with snapcaps and just dryfiring to get the shucking down. I wont use 3.5" in it because the last shell would always jam coming out of the feed tube, like the spring wasnt strong enough. I did get an extension tube for it and i blame it on that. The 3.75's work great though.
I just love the feel of firing it. For some reason pulling the trigger feels so much more significant. I can strafe by a target and dump 5.56 rounds so fast with my match trigger it feels like FA, and thats cool, but the shotgun feels like every shot is a precision round from a bolt rifle. The action of pumping it then dropping the hammer feels so much more 'final'. Especially sense i have like only 7 rounds.
So what my rambling means is this: I have found that playing with my SG is deeply satisfying for some reason. I think it might just edge out the AR as my 'go to' gun, and even SHTF gun, once I get the hang of firing slugs and hitting things further than 25 yards with them.
How accurate is a SG without a rifled barrel? Is it worth getting a rifled one, and will it do ok with 00/bird?
