Overview of the Pistol Grips for Remington 870 Shotgun (SpeedFeed, Knoxx, Hogue, Pachmayr, Choate, Tacstar)

Pistol grips without stock make a shotgun much shorter and easy to manuevre but they also make aiming
much more difficult. As one of the readers of the blog wrote it took him one year of training to have the same results
with Remington 870 with pistol grip without stock as he had with shotgun which had pistol grip with stock.

We all have seen such shotguns in movies and these pistol grips without stock make shotgun look so tacticool and we
all want to have one. But without additional training you will not be able to use it effectively. Some say you don’t need to aim your shotgun because it has more than one projectile (for example 9 pellets in one shell of buckshot) but you need to understand that in close range they will not have enough distance to spread and pattern will be very tight. So you NEED to aim to shot your target and it is more difficult to do this with shotgun without stock.

The most important advantage which pistol grip without stock gives you is a small size, that is why breaching shotguns often don’t have a stock. They serve special purpose (door breaching) and are not used as primary weapon.

Of course it will be easier for you to manuevre in house with such shotgun or have it in your car or bag. That is what are the made for, for more manuevrability.

Here is illustration which show how different pistol grips look like:

Remington 870 Pistol Grips

As you can see a lot of companies produce pistol grips: SpeedFeed, Knoxx, Hogue, Pachmayr, Choate, Tacstar. More detailed review about them are coming soon…

Special thanks to BGH from talks.guns.ru for original photos.