Quite a few respected trainers have been suggesting the use of small red dot sights on tactical and defensive shotguns. In theory, the single focal plane of a red dot sight should make for rapid […]
While it is larger then a pistol and recoils more then a carbine, the shotgun has earned a place for home defense, law enforcement, and limited military use. The shotgun is versatile, firing a wide […]
Custom Remington 870 Defense Shotgun A couple of years ago we posted a step by step tutorial of a tactical shotgun build. In it, we took a beat up Remington 870 Express and turned it […]
Shotgun Ghost Ring Sights Shotgun ghost ring sights provide rapid target acquisition when operating in a big game hunting or defensive environment. Utilizing a large rear aperture that “ghosts” when the shooter focuses on the front sight, ghost ring sights […]
Lengthening (Extending) a shotgun’s forcing cone The forcing cone is the tapered area just forward of the chamber that allows the shot an area in which to transition into the bore. As the shot then […]
Recently we decided to install “Rem-Choke” style removable choke tubes on two of our barrels. In our “3-Gun Competition Shotgun Build” article, we installed the tubes manually, without a lathe. All lathe work is conducted […]
Sage advice? We can’t even begin to count the amount of times we’ve read, been told or heard someone say that shotgun patterns spread about 1″ per yard after exiting the barrel. The old adage […]
EOTech has entered the shotgun forearm light market with its Integrated Fore-End Light (IFL). Powered by a single CR123 battery, the IFL provides 120-lumens of light for a 90-minute run time from an LED […]
Tritium sights are an easy upgrade for shotgun users. Here we install a set of Kimber tritium sights on a 18″ Remington 870 rifle sighted barrel. For this installation we used the following supplies: Magna-Tip […]
Remington recently sent us a Remington Express Synthetic Express shotgun, model 25549, with a bead sighted 18″ IC barrel. While its a perfectly serviceable gun from the factory, we couldn’t wait to work on it and contacted Brownells to order a […]
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