Shotgun Training with Recoil Reduction Stock

A full day of shotgun shooting can really wear on the shoulder. It can start to build fatigue. And if you're doing a whole day of training, shooting the shotgun all day long really can take a toll on you so much so in fact, that you may not really get the value of that training towards the end of the day. Much less if you're doing a multiple day tactical shotgun class. So when it comes to setting up your shotgun, if only for getting the most value out of your training time you might want to take a serious look at the Blackhawk NRS-2, second generation recoil reduction, tactical stock for your pump shotgun.

Now this particular one is obviously mounted on a Remington 870. This is the type of shotgun I prefer. And this stock is really perfect for training. And of course, for the tactical duty application or the home defense application. They also have models that are appropriate for hunting, camouflage patterns and the like.

When we take a look at this thing, first let's take a look at the foregrip. It's obviously knurled, so you get a good positive handhold. You have a good place up here that differentiates in width, so that you know exactly where you're holding, you can get a consistent hold. Consistent hold means you're less likely to have a short stroke situation or of course, to slip off of the foregrip as you're operating the firearm. When we take a look at the pistol grip, you're going to see that we have some rubber inserts here and there's a pronounced palm swell.

That palm swell, as well as this deep area up here, almost like a beaver tail, that area lets you get a really good positive grip. The swell of course gives you that good, full feeling in the hand. And that's exactly what you want. You also notice these rubber inserts, they give you a lot of good friction, positive contact whether you're wearing gloves or not. Any kind of an inclement weather environment, your hands start sweating, you're still going to have a really good positive grip on your control hand here.

Really like that significant improvement over the earlier generation of these Blackhawk stocks. Back here, of course, this is where the recoil reduction happens. Now these stocks, these knock stock type designs actually can reduce up to 85% of the felt recoil. While that's probably not a big issue in the middle of your dynamic critical incident, again, it can be a huge issue when you talk about firing scores or even hundreds of rounds during a weekend of tactical shotgun training or even during a day of training and qualification for somebody who's new to the shotgun. So recoil reduction really is a big deal.

Take a look at this. This is actually an adjustable stock. That's important. This is going to be just like we're used to having on our M4 Carbine. This is going to allow us to do what I think is very important, which is shorten the stock up as much as possible so that we can keep the gun in close to us.

We don't have to worry about projecting it. We don't have as much fatigue when it's in close. Of course, if we're wearing body armor or other things like that, then we're gonna wanna make sure that we can shrink that up as much as possible. If you have a longer neck, when you come down on the gun, your head goes further forward. Maybe even if you have longer arms, you're in a certain proportion size that dictates then of course you could lengthen this way out as well.

So that when you come up, your head ends up being in the right place. Personally, I like to shorten these up quite a bit. Again, whether it's a Carbine or a shotgun. And then of course back the back of the stock we have a limb saver, recoil reduction butt plate. That's going to really, again, help you with that reduction of recoil, help for the comfort of your training day.

And because it's rubber, that's also going to help you with getting a good positive index, getting a good meet between your chest or your vest or your shirt or jacket, whatever you've got on, and the back of the stock as well. We look at mounting a sling. we've got a traditional swivel back here. We've got a side plate that can be set up for a single point, either left or right. And we've got a quick release here, which again can be put on either side, left or right.

That's a quick release piece that can be taken right off of your M4 and put right on to the shotgun. If you happen to be switching at speed, switching under stress right there inside of a law enforcement environment or something like that. Being able to put that back on quickly and easily is going to be a big deal. Especially if you only have one sling. You make one investment, you get used to one piece of equipment.

You can move that back and forth between different tools. So that's again, a big positive. The other thing I want to remind everybody is that a lot of times in training, we end up using reduced recoil rounds. We look for something, you know, like even birdshot or some target shot, that we're going to have very low brass, very low recoil, just to make that training bearable. Well with this particular stock, what we can do is actually run good slugs, good high brass, good magnum loads, exactly the kind of loads that we're going to use for defense, that we're going to use for our duty, for operational use.

We can go ahead and run them in our training more often because of the 85% recoil reduction and not have to suffer... Through anything that's terribly abusive. The NRS-2 Second Generation SpecOps Stock from Blackhawk, it's a great choice for any of the shotguns. It's available for Winchester, Mossberg or my particular favorite, the Remington 870.