Rifle/Pistol Caliber Adapter for 12 Guage Shotguns

[GoneBallistic]

Apparently these fit in the chamber of your shotgun to enable you to fire rifle or pistol ammunition out of your 12 guage shotgun. Your thoughts?

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/27/the-awesome-adapter-for-your-12-gauge-shotgun-that-turns-your-gun-into-an-ultimate-survival-rifle/

 

 

[Oh Shoot]

Haven't seen an entire set like that before.

 

If the barrels and rifling are up to same snuff as your average handgun barrel, don't see why they wouldn't be roughly the same accuracy.

 

Course, shooting .the rifle calibers out of 7" barrel is gonna make their fps and range pretty puny, but still...

 

I'd think the biggest problem would be sighting for each caliber, as no two of them are gonna have the same point-of-aim vs point-of-impact.

 

- OS

[xRUSTYx]

My thinking is along the same lines as OS ...

 

Personally ... 1 shot ... I'd take a 12 gauge slug over almost anything else.  I mean, are you really wanting to take down a buck with a 308 out of a 7" barrel with a scope not sighted in for the correct caliber?

 

I find this set more of a novelty ...

 

With that said -- I'm still putting it on my "WANT" list :)  LOL

[GoneBallistic]

Good points. Where I see the value is if ammo were to get virtually impossible to find (it's obviously hard now, but you can find it if you have the money), you can shoot any of these eight calibers plus all 12 guage ammo out of one gun. So if you don't have the capability to carry all your guns or they get confiscated/stolen (same thing IMO), you have a lot more capability than you would otherwise. Maybe more of a novelty now, but could be a life-saver later.

[RichardR]

I personally think that the money would be better spent simply buying more 12g ammo, than on multi-caliber adapters that would be of "at best" questionable accuracy, and very limited utility.

Sort of a neat idea but the main strength of a shotgun is it's ability to "cast out a wide net" of lead, they are not designed for precision, neither are those adaptors & a singular projectile has to be accurate for it to be worth sending down-range, otherwise you are just wasting resources.

[Mister L]

Cool concept, Tim Ralston was on the prepper show, he shot is thumb with a 22 while making that episode. He also make several other survival tools.