LoneStarWings
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First off, I'm sure this has been discussed on here many times but just wanted to share my exerience. I have shot waterfowl and skeet loads through 12 gague hunting-sized 24-30" barreled shotguns throughout my life. But I recently got a shorter barrled shotgun as more of a utility weapon.
I took my brand new Remington 870 18" synthetic 7 shot and took it to my local indoor range (bead sight only). Unfortunately they only allow slugs so I ended up shooting Remington Slugger 1 oz lead slugs.
Whoaaaaa, I was literally blown away by the noise and recoil of his thing. What a beast , and quite a rush. I was practicing at short range (25 yards) and trying to get 1 shot off every 5 seconds, using all 6 rounds in the magazine. I usually hit the 8 ring with the first couple of shots but the 3-6th shots would be all over the place as I started shaking a bit, but they were still on paper. Maybe I'm a wuss, but I was trembling pretty heavily by the the 4th or 5th shot.
My first problem, I suppose, was trying to get a cheek weld while shooting with the weapon shoulered. I will probably have a bruise on my cheek from that tomorrow.
Are there any good links for reading about how to shoot heavy loads out of short barreled weapons like this?
On the plus, side doing this made the recoil of my S&W M&P semi-auto handgun in .40 s&w seem like I was firing a BB gun.