Body shots out to 25 yards are quite effective. A headshot at 10 yards puts every pellet in the face of the bad guy. The Sentry 12 shotgun patterns predictably and uses a cylinder bore choke. High brass, low brass, buckshot, birdshot, it doesn’t matter, the Sentry 12 doesn’t care. The magazines feed without issue, and it cycles a wide variety of ammunition perfectly. Pump actions are hard to mess up, and this one runs extremely reliably. Push/pull the dang thing, and you’ll be fine.
It’s nowhere near as smooth as a semi-auto but completely controllable with full-power buckshot. Lightweight can mean heavy recoil however, with good recoil mitigation techniques, it’s no worse than any other pump-action shotgun. As a fun side note, the magazines fit in a BFG Ten Speed 308 magazine pouch, just so you know. Still, it’s faster than shoving rounds one or two at a time to load a shotgun’s tube. It’s possible with practice but not as intuitive as a carbine. You gotta have big hands to hold a fresh mag while trying to finagle the empty mag out of the gun. This is where the bulky shotgun mags will be a little less loved. Instead, the user is going to need to remove the empty mag and insert the fresh mag. Toss another mag in and get shooting! These reloads would be a lot faster if the magazines dropped free. You could empty five rounds in very short order, and reloads are also quite fast. I like to shoot fast, and that’s rather easy with the Sentry 12. Loaded with a few hundred rounds of buckshot, I hit the range and had my fun. The short LOP, short reach to pump, and lightweight makes it comfortable for a wide variety of shooters, both big and small. Reaching the pump is very easy thanks to the short LOP and the slightly shorter than average pump length. Smooth becomes fast, and speed is key with a pump action. The pump action is quite smooth and glides forward and rearward without grit or any jank to it. Having to ensure the bolt is fully to the rear to load a magazine is a major hassle and something I’ll often forget to do against a timer. Lots of mag-fed shotguns cannot accomplish this feat, and it’s a must on a pump-action design. One little feature I enjoy is the fact the magazines load with ease on a closed bolt. I’ve been shelling out (get it) on imported buckshot lately, so I’m pumping nothing but Sellier and Bellot buckshot through the gun. The gun and mags accept either three or 2.75-inch shells. These five-round polymer magazines with metal feed lips are easy to squeeze shells into.
Shotgun magazines can be finicky and be nearly impossible to load with ease.
Toss a good red dot on it, and it will feel quite carbine-like. The monolithic upper offers a full-length optics and accessory rail. Coming in at 6.5 pounds, the gun is also carbine-like in its weight. Taking the gun apart is simple and is also very AR-like in its use of lower and upper receivers as well as take-down pins.
Moving from a modern carbine to a Sentry 12 feels quite natural. The Sentry 12 has a short 12.5-inch length of pull that allows for that squared up, weight forward shooting profile. A 14-inch LOP is great for a bladed sporting stance but not great for a squared-up modern shooting stance. Shotgun manufacturers have this obsession with sporting length stocks on tactical weapons. Also, all controls are ambidextrous, which is rather rare for a shotgun. The magazine release and safety mimic the AR15 rather well. The inline stock and pistol grip design are just the beginning. Ergonomically, the Sentry 12 is very AR-like.
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