As guns grow old, rubber recoil pads start to degrade. Vintage rifles and shotguns with steel plates didn’t have this problem. Early signs of degradation include abnormal hardness, cracking or crumbling of the pad material. […]
I’m a big fan of shotguns. While I regularly shoot pump guns, I never branched out into the AK-style 12 Gauge guns like the Saiga and Vepr- both of which, for political reasons, have been […]
Spend enough time around firearms and you start to get excited about the little things: like simple products that address tasks that are frequently encountered and that you wish were easier. Finding a great way […]
In this post I’ll be modifying a Remington 870 barrel that came on a Police trade-in shotgun. This smooth-bore 20″ barrel is equipped with rifle sights from the factory. It will be cut and crowned […]
In this post we will take a look at a budget shotgun rebuild/conversion. The goal of this project is bringing new life to a beat up old gun. The shotgun featured is a Mossberg 500 I […]
How do you back bore a shotgun barrel? In Understanding shotgun back bore, I discussed what back bore was and how it affected patterning of shotguns. In this post, we will look at how to back […]
What is back boring? Most shotgunners are familiar with the phrase back boring. Often it is advertised as a way to reduce recoil and improve shot patterns. A shotgun with a back bored barrel has its […]
If you frequent Rifleshooter.com, you’ll know, I often write about shotguns. It’s no surprise to my regular readers that my shotgun of choice is the Remington 870 equipped with Wilson Combat’s Trak-Lock II ghost ring sights. […]
The Cobray Terminator shotgun is an odd duck. This single shot, slam fire, folding stock shotgun was on the market for a short time… word on the street is only 18 were made (some report […]
I love rebuilding old Remington 870 shotguns. The rattier the donor gun, the more I enjoy it. In this article the donor gun is an old 20-gauge Remington 870 Express that was used as a […]
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