Vonderek
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For all of my life I have turned my nose up at the concept of the pistol-grip 12GA shotgun. I saw a use for it as a door breaching tool but never as a legit SD weapon....especially after a neighbor lost some teeth using same (albeit as a non-trained rube). When the Mossberg Shockwave came out I confess I had a keen interest in it "just because." I checked who had it in stock and no one did. Fast forward a few weeks and unexpectedly a friend gifted me a butt-ugly Mossberg 500 with pistol grip and disgusting faux camo paint. I re-painted the thing with black Rustoleum and ordered a Raptor birds head grip.
This weekend I took the Mossberg and a Baikal SxS to the range for some fun. Interestingly, the Mossberg was pleasant to shoot while the SxS not so much. I was making center mass hits with the 500 with repetitive regularity at 10 yards. At the maximum range at this range of 25 yards the spread was pretty ridiculous but all of the 00 pellets were in the torso.
The recoil impulse is directly in a straight line into your arm with the Raptor grip as opposed to the pistol grip which creates a fulcrum in your wrist.
Bottom line...I think the SxS with a wood stock was fairly brutal to the shoulder pocket. When firing the Mossberg with the Raptor grip, I pushed with the right hand and pulled with the left hand and had much better recoil control than with the fully stocked shotgun. At my advanced age I am a convert to the Raptor-gripped shotgun. I see this as a legit bedroom/home/car/etc. shotgun.
You're never too old to learn.
This weekend I took the Mossberg and a Baikal SxS to the range for some fun. Interestingly, the Mossberg was pleasant to shoot while the SxS not so much. I was making center mass hits with the 500 with repetitive regularity at 10 yards. At the maximum range at this range of 25 yards the spread was pretty ridiculous but all of the 00 pellets were in the torso.
The recoil impulse is directly in a straight line into your arm with the Raptor grip as opposed to the pistol grip which creates a fulcrum in your wrist.
Bottom line...I think the SxS with a wood stock was fairly brutal to the shoulder pocket. When firing the Mossberg with the Raptor grip, I pushed with the right hand and pulled with the left hand and had much better recoil control than with the fully stocked shotgun. At my advanced age I am a convert to the Raptor-gripped shotgun. I see this as a legit bedroom/home/car/etc. shotgun.
You're never too old to learn.
