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Home Defense: Armscor/Rock Island Armory M5 12 Gauge Fighting Shotgun

Fighting shotguns have become very popular in recent years. With home invasions on the rise, more and more people are realizing the need to have a good home defense plan, and having the necessary hardware to defend the home from those who would do us harm. Up close and personal, there is nothing that beats a good shotgun in the hands of a person with limited gun-handling skills. For highly-trained professionals, there are some military-grade weapons that might be better in certain circumstances, but even that is arguable. My late father-in-law, SGT. Charles Jerles, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, preferred to carry a shotgun in the jungle. He told me that it was very effective against the enemy in the close-up conflicts in the jungle, and was much quicker at ending a fight than was the M16.

 

There are a few very modern shotguns on the market that are purpose-built for fighting. The SRM, UTAS, and Kel-Tec shotgun videos that we have made are some of our most popular to date. While these are very good weapons, a shotgun of standard pump configuration does just as well in almost every situation, and it does so in a simpler design that costs a lot less to purchase, and that brings us to the subject of this review; the Armscor M5 shotgun. Having reviewed Armscor products here before, such as the Rock Island 22 TCM 1911 pistol, I expected it to be a quality shotgun.

Read more at gunblast.com

Photo courtesy of  Armscor 

 

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