Well this past weekend i completed the Magpul Tactical Shotgun class with Chris Costa. So far i had taken the Carbine and Handgun class so i knew i was in for an awesome time. The course required 50 slugs, 100 buck shots, 200 bird shots, and 300rnds of pistol ammo as your secondary weapon, ouch. That is a lot of 12g shooting.
It was a one day class that lasted from 8am-6pm. We took an hour lunch break. Chris in unbelievable and basically appears to have come out of his momma's you know what with some kind of a weapon
Seeing him in action is crazy.
I always had thought what is the big deal with shotgun, load it up and shoot until you are empty WRONG. This was harder than the handgun or carbine class. The problem is that you also have to learn other types of shotguns and how they run besides your own. Half the class including Chris ran the Benelli M4 including yours truly.
The gun was fast and gave none of us any problems. A few guys ran Mossbergs, and one remington pump. One of the Mossberg 930 did not make it thru the class. Chris had the bad ass collapsible stock on his M4 which made it look even better and handle better. I have to get that next.
We first sighted in our guns with slugs at 40yard. Unbelievable how accurate my M4 was with the ghost ring sites it came in. I was shooting on top of each other at 40yards. Then we switched to 00bucks to determine how well our guns patterned. We started at 5yrs and continued to drop back until our grouping got bigger that 10". That distance was magic for our gun and those types of round.
In a hostage situation or whatever where you cant spray a bunch of people and you need more of an accurate shot, that distance determines if you need to do a combat reload where a slug is dropped in right in the chamber. The M4 patterns like no other with the modified choke that it comes with. With Hornady TAP 00Buck and Federal 00Buck with Flitecontrol at 20yard my patters were no more than 6". At about 30yards there were about 10". At 20yards or less it basically took a hole out as big as my fist
Then we transitioned into how to switch from buck shots to slugs if needed in middle of combat or defensive situations. And if we needed one slug or two slugs and it all was dependent if the shotgun was chambered or not. The Benelli M4 is awesome that you can rack the slide without taking a shell out the tube and dropping it on the carrier. So if you need only one slug, you just basically rack the slide open take a slug from your rig and drop it in the chamber and let let the slide go and you are good to go. So it was the fastest gun in that respect.
We did a lot of team tactics and moving and shooting. We did quite a bit of transitioning from our primary weapon ie. shotgun to secondary weapon ie. handgun anytime we ran out of ammo, while the other person covered us enough to combat reload.
When we were done, Chris came up to me and said Saman, i can officially call you Jedi Master and smiled. Here are some pics.
Dropping a slug in the chamber on command to shoot a long distance target
Spent slug shell from above routine
Moving and shooting:
Transitioning to Sig 226R:
Chris giving me praise
It was a one day class that lasted from 8am-6pm. We took an hour lunch break. Chris in unbelievable and basically appears to have come out of his momma's you know what with some kind of a weapon
Seeing him in action is crazy. I always had thought what is the big deal with shotgun, load it up and shoot until you are empty
WRONG. This was harder than the handgun or carbine class. The problem is that you also have to learn other types of shotguns and how they run besides your own. Half the class including Chris ran the Benelli M4 including yours truly. The gun was fast and gave none of us any problems. A few guys ran Mossbergs, and one remington pump. One of the Mossberg 930 did not make it thru the class. Chris had the bad ass collapsible stock on his M4 which made it look even better and handle better. I have to get that next.
We first sighted in our guns with slugs at 40yard. Unbelievable how accurate my M4 was with the ghost ring sites it came in. I was shooting on top of each other at 40yards. Then we switched to 00bucks to determine how well our guns patterned. We started at 5yrs and continued to drop back until our grouping got bigger that 10". That distance was magic for our gun and those types of round.
In a hostage situation or whatever where you cant spray a bunch of people and you need more of an accurate shot, that distance determines if you need to do a combat reload where a slug is dropped in right in the chamber. The M4 patterns like no other with the modified choke that it comes with. With Hornady TAP 00Buck and Federal 00Buck with Flitecontrol at 20yard my patters were no more than 6". At about 30yards there were about 10". At 20yards or less it basically took a hole out as big as my fist
Then we transitioned into how to switch from buck shots to slugs if needed in middle of combat or defensive situations. And if we needed one slug or two slugs and it all was dependent if the shotgun was chambered or not. The Benelli M4 is awesome that you can rack the slide without taking a shell out the tube and dropping it on the carrier. So if you need only one slug, you just basically rack the slide open take a slug from your rig and drop it in the chamber and let let the slide go and you are good to go. So it was the fastest gun in that respect.
We did a lot of team tactics and moving and shooting. We did quite a bit of transitioning from our primary weapon ie. shotgun to secondary weapon ie. handgun anytime we ran out of ammo, while the other person covered us enough to combat reload.
When we were done, Chris came up to me and said Saman, i can officially call you Jedi Master and smiled. Here are some pics.
Dropping a slug in the chamber on command to shoot a long distance target
Spent slug shell from above routine
Moving and shooting:
Transitioning to Sig 226R:
Chris giving me praise
