Marv's KSG

We've got pictures and we've attacked it with a fish-scale!

It is compact.

It's chunky and balanced just a little forward of the pistol grip loaded.

The safety is placed OK and the slide lock is well positioned.  The tube selector is simple and a bit hard to locate without looking.  Loading was straight forward, as was unloading.

The trigger is a surprisingly crisp 7 lb. 14 oz.  A bit on the heavy side, but without most of the creepy mush I've come to expect from bullpups.

It utterly lacks the cheap feeling I got from the SU-16 series.

With the Magpul BUIS and vertical foregrip loaded with 14 rounds of 12ga 2 3/4" it weighs just 8.6 lb.  That's a full quarter pound lighter than my 870 with seven rounds in it.  And the KSG is a lot shorter overall even though they have the same barrel length.

Disassembly is pretty simple without any real gotchas.  The manual gave us a couple of false starts because Marv's gun is clearly not the same revision level as the one pictured in the gorgeous full color manual.  We spent considerable time trying to figure out how to remove the "double feed eliminator" bar when we noticed that the picture didn't match the gun.  There's a warning about the gap between the barrel and the receiver when reassembling the gun, but it makes the impression that this gap should be gone before you begin tightening the screws at the front.

Speaking of those screws.  The take down screws look just like the caps to the magazines!  They are not.  We were extra special careful to not launch a mag spring and when the nose came free, we were looking at the actual magazine caps.  This gun would be very hard to make extended mags for.  WHAT?  You know you were thinking it.

More pics are coming.  Range report afore too long.