GREENCOUNTYPETE
01-25-2013, 05:15 PM
I have been doing some reading about how fast handy and useful scout rifles are for quick target acquisition and yet still provide good accuracy out to 2-3 hundred yards with rifles like 308
but I like millions of north American hunters east of the big muddy am limited to deer hunting with a shot gun only
we have since the early 80s been doing this , i just hunted my 22 hunting season
my kids will all be hunting in the next few years , and i have been thinking what to get for them, I have been looking at the 870 youth in 20 ga it comes with a 21 inch barrel with remchokes
in our hunting party we have 12s and 20s both work well on deer , for years we just shot with the bead on the end of the barrel , this was fine for shots out to 50 yards
a few things have happened our woods has gotten thicker more trees , we only own a small portion of what we hunt some is neighbors who have granted permission some is land put into county trust , some tax programs and some township owned
we have also had some changes to the dates and structure of our hunting season about 7 years ago i was noticing more of the time shot were between 50 and 80 yards than in the past with early seasons , my eyes were also changing about that time and i had my gun drilled and tapped and added a 2x scope made a huge difference for me to make those shots with confidence at 75 yards in a more crowded background and for ground
the thoughts about scout rifles , shotguns and my own success with low power scopes got me thinking we have sights that clamp to the vent rib , why not scope mounts , i was even thinking the vent rib isn't that much different than a scope rail why not low mounts that clamp right to the vent rib and hold a long eye relief scope , red dot or pistol scope about 2-4 inches ahead of the receiver
so while not exactly casting , it is a shotgun question can you think of a good reason such a mount shouldn't be made
I did some searching but didn't find much available for mounts , if i stil had access to a mill i don't think it would take me very long at all to mill a slot in a length of aluminum rail so the rail would fit down on the vent rib , at that point a set of brackets that slip under the vent rib could be drilled and tapped and matching holes drilled in the rail to mount it without harming the gun or holes could be drilled an tapped in the rib fairly easily
I have shot a number of running deer with my 2x scope on a traditional mount , i plan to try a round of trap with it some day I think it would work fine , i might even have a better score
such a mount might be just the thing to get kids better success while keeping to a parents budget slug barrels represent a cost of 1/2 to 2/3 of the gun ,just to get sights a cantilever rifled slug barrel for a 870 20ga is almost as much as the gun
at least for me the biggest part of target acquisition is sorting the foreground from the back ground and seeing the sights and deer at the same time
but I like millions of north American hunters east of the big muddy am limited to deer hunting with a shot gun only
we have since the early 80s been doing this , i just hunted my 22 hunting season
my kids will all be hunting in the next few years , and i have been thinking what to get for them, I have been looking at the 870 youth in 20 ga it comes with a 21 inch barrel with remchokes
in our hunting party we have 12s and 20s both work well on deer , for years we just shot with the bead on the end of the barrel , this was fine for shots out to 50 yards
a few things have happened our woods has gotten thicker more trees , we only own a small portion of what we hunt some is neighbors who have granted permission some is land put into county trust , some tax programs and some township owned
we have also had some changes to the dates and structure of our hunting season about 7 years ago i was noticing more of the time shot were between 50 and 80 yards than in the past with early seasons , my eyes were also changing about that time and i had my gun drilled and tapped and added a 2x scope made a huge difference for me to make those shots with confidence at 75 yards in a more crowded background and for ground
the thoughts about scout rifles , shotguns and my own success with low power scopes got me thinking we have sights that clamp to the vent rib , why not scope mounts , i was even thinking the vent rib isn't that much different than a scope rail why not low mounts that clamp right to the vent rib and hold a long eye relief scope , red dot or pistol scope about 2-4 inches ahead of the receiver
so while not exactly casting , it is a shotgun question can you think of a good reason such a mount shouldn't be made
I did some searching but didn't find much available for mounts , if i stil had access to a mill i don't think it would take me very long at all to mill a slot in a length of aluminum rail so the rail would fit down on the vent rib , at that point a set of brackets that slip under the vent rib could be drilled and tapped and matching holes drilled in the rail to mount it without harming the gun or holes could be drilled an tapped in the rib fairly easily
I have shot a number of running deer with my 2x scope on a traditional mount , i plan to try a round of trap with it some day I think it would work fine , i might even have a better score
such a mount might be just the thing to get kids better success while keeping to a parents budget slug barrels represent a cost of 1/2 to 2/3 of the gun ,just to get sights a cantilever rifled slug barrel for a 870 20ga is almost as much as the gun
at least for me the biggest part of target acquisition is sorting the foreground from the back ground and seeing the sights and deer at the same time