Kel-Tec KSG-25

oh he caught 45 here you caught me I've been working since about six o'clock this morning get this firearm loaded yeah it's the KSG 25 the new version of the the KSG all things holds a lotta ammo I think it's one of those firearms you can load for a month and then shoot for three months so I've been working hard to get it loaded up holds law in a lot of lead and okay we're still working on it but we'll get alerted eventually and we might shoot it we all know you're curious you've been asking about this thing several of you and we got one from Bud's gun shop calm we appreciate them helping us check them out they sent this thing to us on a request and we're going to shoot it all so while I'm loading and wearing out my fingers don't forget to go to the link and click on the NRA link down there join at a discount okay if you're not a member the NRA especially or any gun rights group start with them and it go from there all right well we appreciate girl support and I think we finally have this firearm loaded so it took four hours but I got it loaded that was an exaggeration right yep this is a KSG 25 and we're gonna shoot a little bit see what we think about it we've done I don't know at least two three videos on the KSG so I won't field-strip it we've done that I feel stripped it painfully so I think in the last video we did it so I have a link to those videos in the description if you don't see it apart in all that because the biggest difference is it's just longer the barrel and the magazines magazines plural of course and it's got a heat shield out here and so you can grab it and not get burned if you've been shooting a lot and we've been shooting it and we're gonna shoot some more let you know what our impression is I'm gonna put this on make it a little bit longer you know I'm not a crazy I'm not gay I'm crazy but I'm not crazy about bullpup designs partly because of being 6/8 it makes them hard to love even though I've had a couple that works so smoothly not to be deal now this holds so much ammo though I'm gonna have to be reloading a lot you know in the in the video we're going to shape federal mostly federal of course I've got some of that good stuff grant competition stuff and let me put some of the target lows we'll shoot maybe some double-aught buck and a couple of slugs I guess we'll have to do a slugfest with this right while we have it I mean you guys would never forgive me if we don't do a slug fest but we're just going to shoot it here and let you know what to think about it comes with a Magpul in bus sights there and I think they're all close enough for government work for a shotgun at least and we'll see how this thing thinks thing does all right it holds by the way regular turns recorder shells 12 in each magazine which if you get one in the chamber guess what that's an entire box standard box of shotgun shells so it it can wear you out trying to empty it so we're gonna start with the right tube which is the ammo you just saw me putting in and see if we can get it to work get it to hit anything all right Caltech 25 why don't we just start with a pumpkin we want to and there's some work there's something else we do that already short shuck it I must a short shucked it what's he doing falling already the bucket keep kicking it okay I didn't short shuck at that time I'm gonna switch over to I'm gonna reload it how's that flip the switch oh you again yeah I flipped the switch I reloaded I switched to the other magazine all right so that should have been 12 rounds for those of you who can count that high all right outside of Kentucky you probably counted 12 so be sure you count with me and let's just shoot something else how about a pumpkin oh we got put one in don't 1o a pot I can are you counting thing at night that pump is still alive not now what else oh there's a little watermelon what else Oh two liters well look at that I blew the top off and the Cowboys not been shot now it has wow I feel like more than 12 doesn't it click alright it's empty that 12 we're all counting I don't know seems like more well you know what I must confess it was more I tricked you i punked you it was those were many shells I had in the left magazine and I just wanted to illustrate there that it will function many shells and it holds you should have been counting many of you already know it holds 20 an entire box of mini shells and that left two so as you saw it cycle I it might be a map my imagination I've shot a few of them I've shot a few of the slugs and then a few the others it almost seems to cycle them better than those regular ammo I'm seeming like I'm less likely to short shuck it or something might be in my imagination but you didn't notice i short shucked on that first - once or twice and that's one of the negatives of the KSG in general I think is it's so easy to short shuck again new shooters I mean to me just don't bring the slide back hard enough to pick up around them okay that's I mean it's user error of course but I don't know it's awfully easy to do I mean you can do it on any shotgun but it's just a lot II you're to do it by mistake with this shotgun and it also even bring the other one into the battery bringing around into battery sometimes it kind of catches a little bit so and it's not as smooth as your 870 probably or your 590 or any other number of pump shotguns but I don't know part of maybe it's just breaking in we've been shooting it it seemed a little better on that go-round than it has been in the past to tell you the truth so well load him up again okay that was a lot of rounds look at target rich environment got almost devastated with just one loading so let's see if we could do the math that was twenty rounds plus twelve I don't have a calculator with me so I can't tell you how many that was John probably could might have been as many as 32 you reckon so what do we want put into this time all right get the safety on I couldn't have the safety on before because it wasn't cocked and unless it's cocked you can't get the safety on you won't engage so let's put some double-aught buck okay what else about this thing again we've done Celtx of the KSG a couple times this one was supposed to run I think around thousand yeah eleven hundred bucks or something now there's no telling what you'll see them go for because as usual yeah as per usual with Celtic I doubt you'll be going to your local gun shop and making a selection from four or five different ones and various colors you know tomorrow it's they typically have trouble supplying the demand meeting the demand of it and it may not be a lot of demand I don't know yes I'm a my getting out here let's say we'll put these in the left let's say 100 I shoot first I'll shoot these first so I'll load the right - with these they'll hold 12 double lock book even though I devastate a lot of my target here area I'll I'll just fill it up that's a lot of ammo twelve twelve rounds this thing just came out hadn't been out that long and glad to be able to get one from buds again we appreciate their help but these are kind of things that sell out immediately and it's hard too hard to find them you know so that was 12 rounds okay yeah started well these might be a little longer these double-aught buck high brass let's say I opened up three boxes three times five is what I have no idea probably around 15 and I've got four and left so it looks to me like I just got eleven in yeah so held hold eleven holds eleven of those okay we might as well go ahead and just do what we're gonna do here let's put some slugs to it okay make sure it'll work with slugs we'll put these in the other two I guess we're going the same deal there will probably get eleven and of course with 3-inch shells being the genius I am I will jump out on a limb and assume that with three inch shells it won't hold 12 what do you think I think I'm probably in the ballpark there all right I just have always been smart that way so pretty slugs in the left tube to be something you could do have different ammo and each tube we talked about in the other video or as John was suggesting you could just put a bunch of shells and one tube and pretend you don't have that tube unless you really needed it you know put about 20 minutes yells in there like I had you use the other tube as your primary tube you're operating from because get out twelve rounds right or 11 and you've really rented a serious situation you'd have a couple extra rounds like 20 I mean the capacity on this thing that is just amazing so that was ten we'll put a couple more in trouble each one more the approach hold one more so claim to fame on this thing I guess we'll have to say is what capacity yeah that's the big plus capacity Oh help twelve of those okay all right so we've got eleven double-aught buck and we've got twelve slugs and a shotgun one shotgun Wow it feels as though it only weighs about 50 pounds that's one of the negatives right you get all that in there I want to show you two even though if you're familiar with a ASG you know it that looks awfully long doesn't it Wow it's gigantic Lee long KSG well it is but you know for KSG but my standard 590 here let me line up the LaSalle line up the front up here okay so you see back here that I'll take this off it's yeah it's shorter I mean the 590 is that much longer than this thing so even though it seems long it's a kind of a perception thing is we're not used to a KSG begin that long right but it is shorter they in the 590 and probably even shorter than a Remington a standard Remington seven what it well Remington I'm drawing a blank line on a bit the regular Remington pump shotgun which not generally quite as long maybe it's a 590 so it'll be about the same or even longer than this so it does seem really long but it just is not all that long it's just heavy it's heavy I wouldn't want to lug that around all day I'll have to say but if you needed a lot of firepower it's got it okay so now we're we're on let's switch over to let's see I loaded that that's the slug so let's go back to the through the double-aught buck and that's of course you got to keep square what you do want to keep straight what what Remo you've got so you see the switch and of course I've shown you this in the other videos but it it it keeps you others from coming out now you can put it in the middle and block both magazines so that nothing will come out okay as a kind of an extra safety if you want to I guess so will block the left tube which is where the slugs are and less on you know confuse but I think not all right I'll be able to tell when I start shooting yeah this will be your double lock book I do believe so let's try that let's just I know we'll put put it on that tombstone will know right away take the safety off it's off no it's not now it is double-aught buck I can tell cowboy trash can so see they know there it was kind of hard it's like it was hanging up going forward see if we put some double aught on the gone take her to get let's come back to the trash man here let's do okay I ran out all right so it was not a short Chuck on that go around it just I had to I don't think I did a short suck on it it's on the on the forward movement it didn't want to go into battery out one time all right so let's switch over to the other magazine and we've got slugs so we don't want to shoot anything too close we've got to come out and pick one up let's see if we hit the gong with a slug it hardened I see the hits nice nice nice nice let's try the red plate over there don't shoot some steel not Tom on target bugs tend to hit hard oh shoot the trash can with them anyway I see an 11 or a 12 ounce or there I'm gonna see if I can pick small short work is the hook there hung up again go on forward that's funny the wad bounced off the can and came back here and almost hit me just a plastic wad all right we got another one I'm gonna go there and shoot the Buffalo or something knock the other Buffalo off got another one you think we're gonna run out we'll say the slow will do it again what to do a slugfest I know you wouldn't let me get by without doing that we get down here in the shade Wow so that's what it is the old KSG most of you fairly familiar with them by now take that off so you can see it in its true state and it's just got a longer barrel and longer magazines that you own the heat shield here and everything so you could put whatever kind of red dot or whatever you wanted on it out here I just left the embossed sights on it and as it'll this will be going to eat gunner back to Budds for the gunner options again which by the way you know those that's that's their thing and ten percent goes to the Second Harvest Food Bank in Middle Tennessee it's a great arrangement of we have with buds it's it's wonderful because we get different firearms and and you know give you honest opinions about them of course and those would always do anyway and just send them back and some of that goes to charity so it's great and so this the gun will be in your hands there somebody's as soon if you're watching this I guess I don't know so what do I think about it again the the positives are the capacity of course you know I mean that you can't argue with that I don't know of another firearm shotgun you could you could just load it up in half well you could have used all many shells you could have what twenty these tubes you could have forty forty and then plus one so forty rounds and a shotgun or standard ammo you've got twenty four you know three or three-quarter shells plus one so a whole box of shells in in one shotgun that's no longer it's been a regular shotgun so that would be that would be the big plus wouldn't it negatives would be the might be next the expense might be a negative for you the availability is probably negative for for you they're probably gonna I'm not gonna be easy to find for a while if ever knowing Caltech and what are the negatives the wait you know just the wait when it's loaded and the the short sucking starts a capability but the tendency on a KSG too short suck it now that doesn't matter if you just stop messing around the range and stuff but as a serious defensive firearm is what I'm you know really referring to that's a it's an issue with any pump shotgun just as with a semi-automatic shotgun just a malfunction is an issue so I kind of lean toward the pump because if I have a malfunction it's more likely to be my fault you know user error and I have some control over that you know maybe more control then I would over just a finicky semi-automatic maybe there's a bad ammo but you know if you have a shotgun that really is very easy to short suck and say it another way it's sometimes hard to keep from doing it you know you know you got a way that if you're looking for a defensive shot guy okay so that would be one of the negatives of the KSG that hadn't changed for me and in any of the bullpup shotguns seem to be easier to short shucks and and again for me a negative is just the fact that it's a bullpup a little bit more awkward to use you know if you did have a hang-up in there and you got to mess around on that you know it's up in here and it's kind of awkward but yeah you get used to a bullpup and I guess that's not the case so much a lot of people love bullpup designs with the shotgun or a rifle so some of that's just me because I'm not a frequent user of bullpup designs so anyway a little bit awkward there I do like that that grip there that vertical grip on it that's that's essential I think okay on this gun it just makes it much more usable it really does so I don't know it makes you loosen up a little bit John because he and I both have been having some issues with the the short chucking and then getting the next round chambered I don't seem to do a little better since the camera started rolling I don't know they're just a coincidence but it is something I want to point out not going to make fun of the gun or bash it unnecessarily you know if you saw it function pretty well but it is an issue so anyway there it is the ASG 25 because it holds 25 rounds if you have one in the chamber and it's you know it's a KSG i'll link to our other videos and you'll you'll see more meaningless opinions you know from from us on the on the KSG and again breaking it down and all that sort of thing so this is the same gun yes longer holds more ammo okay interesting very interesting yeah how can it not be if you're into firearms even if you hate the the KSG I don't hate it but even if you don't like the KSC this has to be semi interesting to you I think that somebody has designed a shotgun that holds that much that you could carry here Ralph might want a good sling on it there you go it's got your sling attachments so get your good heavy-duty sling and it's you know stick whatever 25 rounds in it or 40 and go to battle so KSG 25 at all I got say about it life is 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Channel: hickok45

Views: 2,153,965

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Keywords: KSG, Kel-tec, 12 gauge, 25-rd capacity, pump shotgun, slide action shotgun, bullpup, shotgun, shotgunning

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Length: 23min 52sec (1432 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 12 2017