[Kampfer]

Anyone with a Vang Comp barrel try shooting trap with it? I'm just curious since I have a 18" barrel and I was thinking of Vanging it out. I'm not a serious trapper but I just wanted to know how a Vang Comp barrel would pattern at trap range with bird shot.

[9mmMike]

I have not seriously patterned my 20" Vang'd 870 but I use it for hand trap (and Trius-thrown) all the time. It is basically a short-barrel'd modified choke.
Attention to swing follow-thru is even more important with those short barrels.
It works fine and the clays cannot tell the difference.
Mike

[SanduneCC]

See this Nippy and Duke. We're not the only ones playing Tactical Trap :D :D :D

[Dave McCracken]

Try it and see. I've shot some informal clays with riot guns, it's a hoot.

Ask Mike Irwin about wobble trap with an old cruiser gun....

[Duke of Lawnchair]

TACTICAL TRAP!

[frontlander]

I use my 18" Gunsite Vanged 870 for all kinds of informal clay shooting and upland bird hunting. It has already acounted for over a dozen hungarian partridges this season. As 9mmMike said it is close to modified in its patterning. I just use cheap 7.5 shot shells if I want a wider pattern and more expensive premium stuff for a tighter pattern.

[Mike Irwin]

A couple of months ago I used my S&W 3000 police trade in to shoot 2 rounds of wobble trap -- 18 inch barrel and cylinder bore.

22/25 and 22/25.

edit -- WHOOPS! I shorted myself! That should have been two rounds, 22 of 25 each round for a total of 44 of 50!

I won't complain about that in the least.

[Kampfer]

Thanks for the info everyone.