Agreed, rear sights are for aiming while shotguns are for pointing.Have I been shooting ducks and quail wrong this entire time? None of those shotguns have rear sights.
Agreed, rear sights are for aiming while shotguns are for pointing.Have I been shooting ducks and quail wrong this entire time? None of those shotguns have rear sights.
Precisely.Agreed, rear sights are for aiming while shotguns are for pointing.
Chlorinated or non chlorinated?Ok, I retract the oven spray. I think I'll now go with carb cleaner with the straw attached so it has more range, and is much easier to "shoot from the hip". If I had any, I'd keep it in the fridge so the cold stream would cause them to inhale rapidly there by ingesting more the the burny chemical goodness! I could also use it to remove pesky price stickers.... If I had any.
It's difficult to get over old habits or muscle-memory.
- Neither the Mossberg 'Shockwave' nor the Remington 'Tac-14' were designed to be fired from the shoulder like a typical shotgun. They are intended to be 'hip-fired' which is why they have a hand safety-strap on the front-end to help manage recoil, do not come with a rear sight, and are classed a 'Firearm' rather than a 'shotgun' which, by ATF definition, is designed to be shoulder-fired.
- In fact the ONLY thing that keeps these firearms from being classed as a SBS is because the overall length of 26.5" which is a factory specification (as opposed to self-modification - i.e. sawed-off) exceeds the maximum overall-length for an SBS (=< 26") as defined by the ATF (as well as many states).
- One major problem with this being a 'hip-fired' weapon was the difficulty in accurate targeting, so Mossberg addressed this with a model that now includes an integrated CrimsonTrace receiver mounted laser for better target acquisition.
Agreed, rear sights are for aiming while shotguns are for pointing.
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