Changing to an adjustable, recoil absorbing stock

[Jamie]

Hi, Just acquired a near new 870 Express. Came with a 28", the owner installed a 18.5", mag extension. It fits me fine, my wife being 4' 11", 100lbs, not so fine. Looking into adjustable stocks, recoil absorbing seems like a great idea. She can shoot a 12 gauge, not afraid of it. We're planning on taking a 'shottie' class, shooting one of these all day might be a bit much, (for her too!). The Blackhawk Spec Ops, GenII seems like a good choice, I did see a Blackhawk traditional style recoil absorbing stock, says adjustable, don't know how quickly that can be done. Anyone have experience with any of these?

[Vitaly]

Hi, Just acquired a near new 870 Express. Came with a 28", the owner installed a 18.5", mag extension. It fits me fine, my wife being 4' 11", 100lbs, not so fine. Looking into adjustable stocks, recoil absorbing seems like a great idea. She can shoot a 12 gauge, not afraid of it. We're planning on taking a 'shottie' class, shooting one of these all day might be a bit much, (for her too!). The Blackhawk Spec Ops, GenII seems like a good choice, I did see a Blackhawk traditional style recoil absorbing stock, says adjustable, don't know how quickly that can be done. Anyone have experience with any of these?

Hi Jamie, I had a review of the Blackhawk Spec Ops stock:
http://www.rem870.com/2011/12/20/knoxx- ... and-video/

You can adjust length of pull very quickly, you don't need to disassemble stock to do this. It has AR-15/M4 style switch which you just press and slide the buttstock to the needed length of pull.

Very good choice, it does reduce the felt recoil. And it looks like Gen II doesn't have problems with cheekslap (it was problem with Gen I): http://tinyurl.com/8cky3gp

Just make sure that you don't use oversized safeties other than Wilson Combat, other ones will not work with Knoxx stock.

[Strapy]

Jamie, Just built my wife a nice tactical shotgun. had a Blackhawk NRS Specops stock on it for two weeks. She put 25 rounds of slug through it and bruised the hell out of her shoulder. Replaced it with the recoil suppressing stock, huge difference. Put another 50 rounds down her with zero bruising. The butt pad is a quarter to three-eights thicker then the NRS, and softer.
The stock came with the allen to tighten the cross bolt. But there isn't one to attach the top slide to the gun receiver. It took her less then 10 minutes to remove and replace the two stocks. Of course she had to read the entire instruction book first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9llKDE7Sx4

[Jamie]

Just got mine installed today, not hard to install, having the right tools is 90% of the job. Had to file the inside of the foregrip to fit over the rails, a bit tight, other than that, can't wait to go shoot it. The wife is thrilled, fits her GREAT now, adjusts right out for me. She still thinks we should leave the wood foregrip on, she likes the wood look, (it is nice), easy enough to switch. Probably wait till next weekend, there's an outdoor range 45min from me, an indoor range 5-10min, don't know how they are with 'shotties', probably no problem if I'm just shooting slugs, at the same time we want to get used to it, would like to see how it patterns with some 00 buck, so the outdoor range it is.

[badboybeeson]

I know the knoxx/ blackhawk is well known but the Endine hydrulic buffer is the only one to get, the issue is the price.
but i have a 12 inch 870 with a breacher that has less recoil then an 18 inch gun mostly due to the endine buffer.
Its mostly sold as a rebranded item at mesa tactical.
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[Jamie]

Finally got to the range to shoot, what a blast, (pun intended)! My wife and I both enjoyed ourselves. We had just bought the gun recently, hadn't shot it yet, waited till I put the adjustable stock on. Worked great, I haven't shot a 12 gauge for awhile so can't say for sure how much of the recoil the Knoxx stock absorbed. I had no problems shooting it, neither did my wife. At 4' 11", 100lbs, she has fired a 12 gauge before, not a lot. The first shot move her back a bit, so now that she knew what to expect, leaned into it a bit and let 'er rip! We shot a bunch of Winchester #8, a box of #4 shot which had noticeably more 'kick' than the #8 and some 00 buck which seemed about the same as the #4. At about 25 yards the 00 buck put 8 possibly all 9 pellets onto the target paper, (full sized silhouette), 4 or 5, (one hole might have been two pellets), hit the silhouette. Didn't think 00 buck would do that at that range, but then I don't know any better. We shot almost 75 shells between us, the wife says her shoulder is a bit sore, (a 'good' sore, her words not mine), I'm fine. So I'd say the Knoxx stock is pretty good, the adjustability is great.

[Vitaly]

Jamie, glad to hear from you!

That's good that Knoxx stock works good for you. I really liked it too. I was happy to have it during first year because I didn't know how to effectively manage recoil.