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Posted: 1/18/2015 6:35:03 PM EDT
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I have no help to offer but now I want to build one as well.
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Posted: 1/18/2015 9:34:26 PM EDT
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I have no help to offer but now I want to build one as well. Me too! Please post if you find where a source is -Thanks and good luck! |
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Posted: 1/19/2015 12:13:06 AM EDT
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I would call Remington. If I remember correctly, these were built in-house by Remington for the USSS.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 5:45:35 AM EDT
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Those were made by Iron Sight Gun Works
A gunsmith named Jim Rock of RPM XL purchased that company http://rpmxl1.com/ourproducts_page.htm Does a 14 inch hog leg really need sights? Considering the recent USSS headlines, they probably need all the help they can get 
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Posted: 1/21/2015 1:04:39 PM EDT
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Of course a 14" shotgun needs sights. I can use mine accurately out to at least 100yds (longest I've tried) with slugs. Couldn't do that with a slick barrel. Sights make it a much more versatile arm.
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Posted: 1/21/2015 11:13:58 PM EDT
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I can tell you that my USSS 870 is plenty accurate. So, whatever sights are them work mighty fine.
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Posted: 1/22/2015 12:31:09 AM EDT
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I put the Vang sights on a customers 12" 870 and they looked right on it. Bolt on rear, silver soldered on front.
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Posted: 1/26/2015 3:17:32 AM EDT
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Of course a 14" shotgun needs sights. I can use mine accurately out to at least 100yds (longest I've tried) with slugs. Couldn't do that with a slick barrel. Sights make it a much more versatile arm. I don't agree it would need sights. The SBS has minimal applications, and 100+ yard slug accuracy isn't one of them. A simple bead sight should prove sufficient. But if the USSS spec'd this adjustable ghost ring, who am I to argue? 
ETA: cmshoot, I read in another post you teach combat shotgun courses, so don't take my response as a personal affront. But you certainly understand the purpose a SBS serves! |
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Posted: 1/26/2015 8:34:12 PM EDT
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I know the purpose my SBS serves, and what I teach my students to do with it.
In my experience, the gunfight is what it is going to be......not what you want it to be, or what you equipped yourself for. If you can equip your SBS, for a very reasonable fee, with a set of rugged iron sights that will enable you to engage from point-blank to 100yds, why not do so? Why limit your effectiveness to conversation distances only? One of the main features of the shotgun that has kept it so popular is its ability to employ a wide array of ammunition. They are devastating in close quarters, but they can be accurately utilized at further distances if properly equipped. I was toting a Remington 870 in my first gunfight and have had a soft spot for them every since. Granted, it was a 20" USMC-issue Rem870, but it had rifle sights and I knew how to use them. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:43:39 AM EDT
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It's easy to agree with that since this USSS version is equipped with a full stock.
But pistol-gripped whipit variations of SBS are surely not included. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:07:09 AM EDT
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Me too! Please post if you find where a source is -Thanks and good luck! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I have no help to offer but now I want to build one as well. Me too! Please post if you find where a source is -Thanks and good luck! Yep. I want to do it too. I might actually like my 870 again if I did this. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 10:01:04 AM EDT
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I don't agree it would need sights. The SBS has minimal applications, and 100+ yard slug accuracy isn't one of them. A simple bead sight should prove sufficient. ! 100yd slugs are not an issue whatsoever with a 14" shotgun, nor are 150yd, even 200yd slugs. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 1:24:06 PM EDT
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I don't allow pistol grip-only shotguns in my courses.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:10:17 PM EDT
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CMShoot Thanks.
This thread makes me want to add these sights to one of my 870s... |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 11:47:11 PM EDT
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You're welcome.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 11:36:06 AM EDT
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100yd slugs are not an issue whatsoever with a 14" shotgun, nor are 150yd, even 200yd slugs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I don't agree it would need sights. The SBS has minimal applications, and 100+ yard slug accuracy isn't one of them. A simple bead sight should prove sufficient. ! 100yd slugs are not an issue whatsoever with a 14" shotgun, nor are 150yd, even 200yd slugs. I have one of the USSS guns... the 14" barrel has a fixed mod choke.... it shoots slugs and buckshot very well... much tighter than an 18" cylinder-bore gun. |
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Posted: 2/1/2015 6:26:08 PM EDT
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Thanks for the replies. Has anyone contacted RPM XL yet to see if they're making these sights at all? If not then I'll drop them an e-mail.
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Posted: 2/1/2015 11:51:11 PM EDT
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I emailed them Friday, no reply yet.
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Posted: 2/18/2015 5:28:14 PM EDT
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I don't know if or when they switched but all the ones I have seen use LPA sights.
ETA... They also have synthetic stocks vs. wood (as previously pictured) so maybe LPA are on the newer ones. |
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