As Pennglock points out above, except for added firepower (with the attendant extra weight), I am not sure you are really much better protected with that device than an ordinary tubular magazine combat shotgun--pump or auto.
A lot that was suspicious and sounded like hype in that video. The designer says almost all the parts are stainless steel so it needs almost no lubrication. Well, isn't that interesting? The mechanism absorbs almost all the recoil? Amazing nobody thought of that before. I wonder how heavy that thing is. I suspect that's the major reason why it didn't jump around more in full auto.
Full auto in hand held weapons is rather overrated, I think. My old mentor Tom Siatos, who was in some of fiercest fighting in the Pacific, including Tarawa and Okinawa, said one of the first things he learned was to always keep his Thompson on semi-auto. Craig Boddingdon once remarked to me that he saw no use for full auto on anything that wasn't on a bipod or tripod. I can't claim a lot of experience with full auto, but I did attend a submachine gun course at Front Sight and have some experience with light machine guns.
The claim that finned device extends the shotgun's range out to a hitherto unheard-of 175 meters reminds me of the time I killed a fair-sized wild sow at a laser-measured 183 yards with saboted shotgun slug, a 20-gauge no less, from a rifled barrel slug gun. I wouldn't have taken such a long shot had she not already been wounded.
A lot that was suspicious and sounded like hype in that video. The designer says almost all the parts are stainless steel so it needs almost no lubrication. Well, isn't that interesting? The mechanism absorbs almost all the recoil? Amazing nobody thought of that before. I wonder how heavy that thing is. I suspect that's the major reason why it didn't jump around more in full auto.
Full auto in hand held weapons is rather overrated, I think. My old mentor Tom Siatos, who was in some of fiercest fighting in the Pacific, including Tarawa and Okinawa, said one of the first things he learned was to always keep his Thompson on semi-auto. Craig Boddingdon once remarked to me that he saw no use for full auto on anything that wasn't on a bipod or tripod. I can't claim a lot of experience with full auto, but I did attend a submachine gun course at Front Sight and have some experience with light machine guns.
The claim that finned device extends the shotgun's range out to a hitherto unheard-of 175 meters reminds me of the time I killed a fair-sized wild sow at a laser-measured 183 yards with saboted shotgun slug, a 20-gauge no less, from a rifled barrel slug gun. I wouldn't have taken such a long shot had she not already been wounded.
