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- Thread starter Codycac
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IMHO, A cheap used pawn shop field gun chopped off at legal or your preferred length is as good as any new gun for HD.
For the reasons of popularity only, the shorter "tactical" models are selling for more than a nicer looking gun in field lengths with wood grain stocks. As for add on items... I suggest you hold off until the gun and you are well aquainted.
Brent
For the reasons of popularity only, the shorter "tactical" models are selling for more than a nicer looking gun in field lengths with wood grain stocks. As for add on items... I suggest you hold off until the gun and you are well aquainted.
Brent
The accessory you need most is ammo. Buy ammo, use up and repeat until the shotgun feels like a body part, not a tool.
At that point, you'll have a better idea of what your shotgun needs, if anything.
BTW, short barrels are widely available and are installed in five minutes.
One personal favorite is the 20" barrel with open sights.
HTH....
At that point, you'll have a better idea of what your shotgun needs, if anything.
BTW, short barrels are widely available and are installed in five minutes.
One personal favorite is the 20" barrel with open sights.
HTH....
I feel like a light is a very important accessory for a defense gun. You need to be able to illuminate your target whenever required.
I am sure there are ways to use a flashlight with a shotgun, but I am skeptical that there are any good ways to do it.
What I use is a Surefire X300 weaponlight with a tape switch. It's really bright (110 lumens), just about indestructible (LED), and can be mounted on a rail. Surefire also makes replacement forends either with integral lights or a rail (so you can use the light on multiple weapons).
http://www.surefire.com/618LFG
http://www.surefire.com/870-Shotgun-Forend
I'm not convinced that sights are a big deal with a shotgun at close range. The barrel itself provides quite a bit of inherent sighting capability.
The 870 is a good gun. If it were me, I'd put my efforts into:
1) a light
2) a short barrel
3) practice
Those are in order of increasing importance. Anything else probably is about as much bling as function. Tactics will save you, not features.
Scott
I am sure there are ways to use a flashlight with a shotgun, but I am skeptical that there are any good ways to do it.
What I use is a Surefire X300 weaponlight with a tape switch. It's really bright (110 lumens), just about indestructible (LED), and can be mounted on a rail. Surefire also makes replacement forends either with integral lights or a rail (so you can use the light on multiple weapons).
http://www.surefire.com/618LFG
http://www.surefire.com/870-Shotgun-Forend
I'm not convinced that sights are a big deal with a shotgun at close range. The barrel itself provides quite a bit of inherent sighting capability.
The 870 is a good gun. If it were me, I'd put my efforts into:
1) a light
2) a short barrel
3) practice
Those are in order of increasing importance. Anything else probably is about as much bling as function. Tactics will save you, not features.
Scott
StuntManMike
New member
Regarding the barrel, check with Vang Comp to see if they still have those trade in barrels for $255 that already have the VCS done to them. Otherwise Midway usually has the 18.5" Mossberg barrels for the 870 for a reasonable price. The local Cabela's has the 870P 18.5" barrels for $120.
+1 on the Surefire 618LFG and stay away from the Lasermax LMS1202 (I own both).
Regarding mag extensions Vang Comp is supposedly the best so I am just going to have to break down and order one to see what makes it better than the Wilson Combat ones I have been using.
+1 on the Surefire 618LFG and stay away from the Lasermax LMS1202 (I own both).
Regarding mag extensions Vang Comp is supposedly the best so I am just going to have to break down and order one to see what makes it better than the Wilson Combat ones I have been using.
Uncle Hans does good work, and I don't want to take anything away from him. But you don't need a Vang Comp barrel, really. Any barrel on a house gun here at Casa Lapin- all of them straight from the factory plain jane 18- 20" Remington barrels- will shoot plenty tight patterns with Federal buckshot loaded with FliteControl wads. And they cost from $70 used to $140 new (with factory rifle type night sights on the new ones no less).
I went through a phase once of trying to get buckshot to pattern better at longer ranges, and was having choke tubes put in, forcing cones extended and all that jazz. Guess what- just buy the right ammo these days and forget about altering the barrel's internal geometry. You'll likely get tight patterns. My favorite house gun has an old Police gun 18" CYL bore barrel, and shoots 4" patterns with Federal LE 127-00 at 25 yards.
fwiw,
lpl
I went through a phase once of trying to get buckshot to pattern better at longer ranges, and was having choke tubes put in, forcing cones extended and all that jazz. Guess what- just buy the right ammo these days and forget about altering the barrel's internal geometry. You'll likely get tight patterns. My favorite house gun has an old Police gun 18" CYL bore barrel, and shoots 4" patterns with Federal LE 127-00 at 25 yards.
fwiw,
lpl