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Quoted: Where's all the heatshield haters?
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Oh,sorry, I'm here. Been taking pictures of locomotives! Er, here goes....I hate heatshields! Yup, that'll work. They are useless items. After shooting a shotgun, you never grab the barrel. If everybody was dupid enough to grab weapons by the barrel, after firing, we'd have heatshields on everything from your trusty Rem 700 to you handy 1911. It makes no sense.
Besides, thats what a forend is for.
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The 1911 does have a heatshield, although most people call it a "slide"
AR-15's, FAL's, AK47's, etc, etc, etc all have heatshields, they are just called "handguards"
I see no reason why you shouldn't have a heatshield on the weapon, espeically when the weapon requires a lot of manual manipulation to load as opposed to just slapping in a magazine. I seriously doubt that anyone "grabs the barrel" of their shotgun, I know at least in my case the warm barrel brushes my left arm when loading shells as I have a tendency to roll the gun over a bt to ease the loading procedure.