Thumb forward, which is awesome until you shoot a humpback and jam the shit out of yourself.
Thumb Forward
Thumb Wrapped Around Grip
Thumb forward, which is awesome until you shoot a humpback and jam the shit out of yourself.
Matt Haught
SYMTAC Consulting LLC
https://sym-tac.com
Thumb wrapped around the grip. I shot 75+ rounds of five stand today with it and no boppage occurred.
Edited to add:
I’m using mine with two spacers which seems “right” to me with my stance. The guys at the club seem to think it’s short compared to their guns.
Thumb wrapped, but admittedly I haven’t shot anything really hot through my 1301. I have some Brenneke Black Magic slugs I’ll have to test. I used to go thumbs forward on my 870.
All of you are to report directly to gulag. Do not pass Go.
Eh, no worries. It looks like it's a six of one, half dozen of the other...
Personally, I'm afraid that if I don't do thumbs forward with a 12.5" LOP, I'll probably sock myself in the schnozz, and mine's not much pronounced to begin with. Maybe I'll chance it next time I dare to use any of my precious shotgun ammo.
There's nothing civil about this war.
I switched from the short Hogue stock to the Magpul, since the Magpul didn't bonk my nose with the thumb wrapped around regardless of what I was shooting ammo wise. I ended up switching all of my shotguns to the Magpul stock except my "truck gun", which I kept the 870 youth stock since it looks less "tactical". No bonking with either 870 or Mossberg pumps and the Magpul or the 870 youth stock (13" LOP) FWIW.
I have a Magpul stock with no spacers on my 870 and I think I wrap my thumb around the stock, but I only got the bloody thing a week ago and only have one 80 round range session with it, so I didn't answer the poll. At any case, I didn't bonk my nose even with the hunting slugs I tried. I'll have to try to pay more attention to how I hold the gun the next time I get to shoot it.