5/26/2023 0 Comments Shotgun farmers increase fpsThe empty Xrail weighed 2 pounds, making the unloaded and already muzzle heavy package a hefty 10.1 pounds. We attached our Compact unit to a new Remington 11-87 Sportsman Synthetic 12 gauge No. The Full version weighs 2.3 pounds empty and holds either 21 or 22 rounds. It was 3 inches wide (maximum diameter) and stood 4.1 inches tall, including the arms that lock onto the barrel. Unloaded, the Compact unit weighed 2 pounds even and measured 10 inches in length from the front of the forend to the end of the main tube. The Compact unit we tested increases the shotgun’s magazine count to either 13 or 14 shells, depending on the gun. Inside the metal shell are four black-nylon or clear polycarbonate tubes that hold the shells in a 12-3-6-9 o’clock pattern. The Xrails are hard-coated black-anodized aluminum-and-stainless-steel rotating drums that attach to the existing magazine tube on a pump or autoloading shotgun. Once the shooter is working on the main tube supply (6+2), he can top it off and continue using the extended round count in the main tube by reloading normally. Then the rounds empty in reverse order of how they were loaded. Once the main tube is full (6 rounds in the gun’s mag tube and 2 rounds in the Xrail), the shooter rotates the Xrail to the first auxiliary tube and loads 2, rotates to the second aux tube and loads 2, and rotates the unit and loads 2 in the third aux tube for a total of 14. The Xrail accepts rounds fed through the gun’s magazine tube, the same way the shooter normally loads his gun. The XRAIL (hereafter Xrail) is also touted as being suitable for military and law-enforcement use, and it offers the additional benefit of transferring to more than one shotgun. Roth Concept Innovations (RCI) claims to solve this 3-Gun shotgun puzzle with its Xtreme Roth Auto Indexing Loader Systems, or XRAILS, which are shotgun magazine extensions that carry up to 23 rounds and do not alter the original gun (not totally true, as we note below). To carry a stage count of 20 to 23 rounds - nearly a box! - means pushing in big, ungainly magazines on Saigas, ripping strip loaders into under-barrel extension tubes, or carrying extra shells on a belt and feeding them on the fly with advanced reloading techniques. Shotshells are big in both profile and weight, so they take up a lot of space. Shotgun development has lagged the other two gun types, but scatterguns are now the beneficiaries of drop-in triggers, rail systems, high-viz sights, collapsible replacement buttstocks, and other refinements, but capacity has been an ongoing restriction. Practical rifles and pistols already have plenty of development to improve sights, speed, and capacity, and many of those improvements - beveled mag wells, lightened hammers, expanded magazine capacities, various optics, lightweight materials - have found their way into mainstream guns at nearly all pricepoints. Shooters into 3-Gun competition are driving a lot of innovation in firearms and performance accessories, arguably benefitting the shotgun segment the most.
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