masonalannz wrote:AmirMortal wrote:OK, so I've owned my 590A-1 12ga since 2004, and it has been boringly reliable. I've put somewhere around 1,500 to 2,000 shells through it, and it still functions flawlessly. Here is my shotgun at the range shooting clay pigeons and getting disapproving looks this past fall, and just look at what a good time it's having!
The Ghost Ring sights combined with a 20" barrel, and less than perfect eyes make for roughly 1 MOB(Minute of Bucket) accuracy with rifled slugs at 100yds. It is fairly slow handling in this configuration, but with the bayonet attached and loaded with 9 rounds, it does absorb the recoil nicely.
Amir, the reason you were getting disapproving looks was because YOU HAVE AN UNSHEATHED BAYONET ON A SHOTGUN YOU ARE USING TO SHOOT SKEET - aka waving it around for no good reason. That is about as dumb as pointing a gun at something you don't intend to shoot. If you don't want disapproving looks, don't do stupid, dangerous,
pointless things.
Oh, it wasn't pointless, it is in quite good condition. I have been handling blades for even longer than guns, and I assure you that at no time was anyone in any danger whatsoever. I don't wave guns around, and I wasn't waving the blade around either. I affixed the bayonet once I got on the line, there was no one withing 10yds of me while it was attached, and it was removed and sheathed before I left the line. I was mostly just trying to get a feel for how differently it handled with the extra weight on the end while firing. It made a little difference, but not much.
The looks I get is for having a black 'tactical' shotgun on the skeet range. The folks with the $2,000 double barrels give me those looks consistently when I go. Some of them do better than I do with my cylinder bore, but most don't seem to. I think they're just jealous.
For the looks that I get, I still fon't get the looks that my buddy gets when he shoots his
Serbu Super Shorty at skeet. The guys in the shooting vests really shit bricks when they see that.
ETA: Also, I have trained with bayonets, short spears, swords, knives, and various other implements of destruction in both formal and informal settings for many years, so I am no novice, just to be clear.
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