Maybe a 20-gauge model is the answer? Or maybe it’s time someone came up with a rimless shotshell that wasn’t initially made for break-action hunting guns 200 years ago.We encounter the name Blackwater again which for those have been into airsoft since the start of the new millennium is about the PMC that has brought notoriety on itself for the Nisour Square Massacre in 2007 in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed and 20 injured. I don’t think gunmakers will ever be able to get around the fact that a box magazine for 12-gauge shells gets real bulky or real long real fast. Though they are bullpups, the KSG and KS7 from Kel-Tec both have in-line designs, and some find the recoil from them to be punishing, especially with 3-inch magnum shells. It’s on the light side for a shotgun and I’m interested to see what felt recoil is like with an AR-style in-line design. The Sentry 12 seems extremely simple, and therefore hopefully reliable, and easy to use. The mags, like the chamber, can handle 2.75- or 3-inch shells. It also comes with two 5-round magazines, which is the highest capacity currently offered. You can even use the carriage to unscrew the barrel nut, if you need to remove the barrel in the field. The gun then breaks down into three components, the upper, the lower, and then the carriage and bolt, which are attached to the slide handle. One takedown pin behind the pistol grip holds the upper and lower receivers together. On the back is a polymer fixed-length stock with a thick rubber buttpad.Īs far as maintenance goes, the Sentry 12 is really easy to break down. On top is a full-length Picatinny rail for a range of optics choices. It measures 36 inches overall and had QD sling mounts on both sides. Does this mean aftermarket AR drop-in triggers will work with the Sentry 12? It sure sounds like it. The 12-gauge firearm has ambidextrous AR-style controls, a one-piece monolithic aluminum upper receiver, a 3-inch chamber, and weighs 6.5 pounds, that’s 1.2 pounds less than the 590M. But the thing is, the 12-gauge shotgun is built a lot like another firearm that uses box magazines: the AR. The company says the Sentry 12, in a short-barreled configuration, was designed to be “an ideal shotgun for law enforcement,” but those same attributes should make this a great shotgun for home defense as well with a smoothbore 18.5-inch barrel with a nitride coating for the civilian market. I say “may have” because I haven’t gotten to test one out just yet, but the specs and info have me really wanting to. There’s a better way, and Blackwater Firearms may have hit a sweet spot with its new Sentry 12 pump-action shotgun, now available from the Utah-based gunmaker. They’re also unnecessarily heavy, with capacities no greater than my great handling and light Kel-Tec KS7. I find them a bit awkward to use and bulky-the 870 DM a little less so because of its more streamlined, and lower capacity, magazines. Most of the engineering went into the magazines themselves, but the guns were not at all built around the box magazine platform. These guns are simply 870s and 590s with a magwell attached where the loading port normally goes. There are a lot of advantages in having a box mag instead of a tube magazine, for tactical applications and for hunters.īut I never cared for the prominent shotguns are the market that fit this bill, namely the Remington 870 DM and the Mossberg 590M. I’ve always loved the idea of a pump-action shotgun fed from a box magazine.
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