It's really light and points good. Love the fiber front sight and the construction seems very solid. Even the butt pad is really neat and I think some of the other shotguns out there have a plastic follower and plastic magazine tube cap. This one has aluminum for both. As a matter of fact I can't find any plastic in it!

Thanks IC.  I look forward to the continued reports.  How long before you send some lead downrange?

If everything goes okay with the weather Saturday. Any suggestions on load to make it go Uhhhhh on?

I dunno.  It's a shotgun.  Maybe a variety of bird/small game shot and 00 buck, with 10 yd. patterns.  A longer distant slug (accuracy) may be helpful.  I'm mostly interested in feel and function.

Which one did you get Intercooler?I use the euro shells,Rio Royal in my Saiga stick mags.Work flawlessly.throw in some target loads(Remington).SGAmmo has some good deals.

Walnut semi. I'm going tonight to get a selection of starter shells. What's a good bulk load to get? I will work my connection 

For common shotshells, Walmart is as good a place as any around here.  A box of 100 rds. is about 20 bucks.  I can save on mail order shotshells, but it takes lots of 5,000 to break even.  I haven't handloaded target loads in years.  It's cheaper to just buy them at Walmart, all things considered.

Just for curiosity, how many rds. will the mag hold w/o the plug?  2-3/4" and 3"?

Did the wood come like that or did you oil it up? It def looks like the advertised picture from what I can tell, looks really good!

    The wood has a Satin look. However... the entire shotgun had a weird blackish film on it that really stained my hands up. I would wear gloves if I ever did another. I removed the film in cleaning and applied some oil. This cell phone camera sucks so it didn't do the best on the pictures.
     I have a white ring cloth I could polish the wood up with easily but debating if I want to do that or not. Could make it slick, especially with a little moisture. Headed up now to pull get some trigger pulls for people wanting to know. They also want drop measurements, so someone sent me a video on how to do them.

This shotgun is Field sighting. About 2 1/2" at the Comb and 1 3/8"-1 1/2" at the end.

Trigger pull doing it 12 times was about 8.5lbs every pull to break.

Oh... DM1906

Linberta said 5+1 with the plug out.

Quote from: Intercooler on December 13 2012 06:05:35 PM MST
Oh... DM1906

Linberta said 5+1 with the plug out.

Thanks.  Looking forward to the range report.  8.5# pull for a field gun is not bad.  More than mine, but I don't know what mine were before they were "massaged" (5#, currently, all of them).  Consistency is much more important than actual.

Back from testing it. At the range were two other shooters beside me shooting clays and they struck up general chat. I told them I'm trying out a new shotgun and it peeked their interest. They asked what ammo I was shooting, so I showed them the boxes:
   Federal 3 Dram, 1 1/8 oz shot, 7 1/2 shot.

        They said that's low brass and you have a Semi. It won't run without hanging up and they showed me how they anticipated the slide would not fully return or eject the brass with their own shotguns. They showed me high brass and said Semi guys shoot that (one had a semi and one a pump). Loaded it up and it just ripped through them zero issues. Loaded up again and zero issues. So I called them over and said it seems to be working fine in this one... they said I see that! I kept going and they left... finished up my 100 rounds with zero issues. Easy to point and shoot and light as can be.
          I can't find a thing I don't like about this shotgun but one thing. The spring for the loading gate/slide release is stiff. Hopefully it will loosen up some but it sure seemed accurate to boot. Very happy!
         
         
     

Im all smles with your range report.It will digest what you will put in,regardless of loads.Awsome report.the spring will loosen up.

   I learned something over this purchase. Don't talk shotguns to skeet/trap/clay guys or they will tell you it takes a $2000 plus shotgun to hunt Rabbits or any other huntable game.