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Vr80 barrel shroud8/30/2023 So I have finally settled on my configuration (at least for now) I thought I would list some things pro and con as to help anyone else making some decisions. I am also credited as weapons master on a few independent films.I was able to find a VR80 a couple of weeks ago and while I was awaiting shipment I started sorting through the 30+ pages in the Enos posts about the gun and researching online for all the options, mods and problems that have been associated with this shotgun. Continuing to improve my firearms skills and knowledge is a never ending journey in which we should all be committed. I began reviewing firearms for publications in the mid 2000s and have been fortunate to make many friends in the industry. Around that time my father and I became involved with IDPA and competed together up until he passed away. In the late 1990s I became a life member to the National Rifle Association and worked with the Friends of the NRA. After being honorably discharged I continued teaching firearm safety, rifle and pistol marksmanship, and began teaching metallic cartridge reloading. Just after high school I enlisted and felt most at home on the rifle range, where I qualified expert with several firearms and spent some time as a rifle coach to my fellow Marines. I spent much of my youth involved with firearms and felt the call early on to the United States Marine Corps, following in my father's and his brother's footsteps. All in all, I am satisfied with the VR 80 as a reliable shotgun that would serve in a plethora of applications. Once that is done it field strips similar to an AR-15 with the takedown pins. Maintaining the shotgun is pretty simple, by unscrewing the barrel shroud and removing a hex head screw at the base of the bottom of the handguards you can remove the handguard. Coming from RIA with flip-up iron sights mounted to the Picatinny Rail along the top and MLok machined into the handguard, the VR 80 can be configured to suit whatever your needs are, be it home defense, self-defense, range use, or match use. Being gas operated recoil was somewhat lessened over a pump or break action shotgun, and with some range time and correct technique, it was not hard to control during live fire. Throughout some 200 shells, it was reliable with the gamut of 2 3/4″ and 3″ shells I ran through it. The VR 80 is imported by RIA from a company called Derya, who makes a similar shotgun called the MK12. Understand your results may vary from these depending but it will give you a good idea of spread and accuracy. The three shot group measured just at 2 1/4″ Next, I shot the VR 80 at 35 yards from a rest with 3″ Winchester rifled slugs. Modified was 21 inches and Cylinder was 27 inches. Using 2 /34″ Fiocchi 7 1/2 shot I patterned each choke at 15 yards.įull was 16 inches from side to side measured from the furthest shot. Notice the portion of Picatinny Rail at the top and side of the handguards, as well as MLoc on the port and starboard sides. Here you see the charging handle located on the bolt, which worked quite easily and can be reversed for those who are left hand dominate. You can see the portion of the Picatinny rail above the receiver. The trigger broke at eight pounds with almost no take up but with right much over travel. The magazine catch and other side of the ambidextrous safety. While the pistol grip looks a bit funky, it does classify as a thumb hole stock allowing this long gun can be shipped to the less free states. Here you see the bolt catch and the left side of the ambidextrous safety. The design is very similar to the AR-15 with a very similar manual of arms. It was a couple of months ago I received the RIA/Armscor VR 80 12ga shotgun for review, and after about 200 shells downrange without issue, this is what I have learned.
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