Description
The Retay Ace Paloma is the sporting member of the Ace family: polished black from end to end, 28 inches of barrel, an inertia action and a weight of just over six pounds. Retay built it for clays, dove fields and wingshooting rather than for a marsh, and the specification sheet reflects that everywhere you look.
What Sets the Retay Ace Paloma Apart
The Retay Ace Paloma finish is the first thing you notice. Polished black across the receiver, barrel and synthetic stock gives the gun a clean, deliberate look that reads more like a competition piece than a field gun. It is also a practical choice for a shotgun that spends its life on a clays course rather than in cover, where scratches are inevitable and camouflage serves no purpose.
The Retay Ace Paloma action is inertia driven, using the Inertia Plus bolt with a rollover torsion spring that rotates the bolt head firmly into battery. Inertia guns are lighter and simpler because there is no gas system, and the Paloma is a clear beneficiary at 6 pounds 5 ounces in 12 gauge. That is light for a 28 inch semi auto and it shows in how quickly the gun comes up.
The Retay Ace Paloma barrel is deep bore drilled from straight stock and the forcing cone is lengthened at the factory. On a clays gun that matters more than it does on a hunting gun, because you are shooting enough volume to notice both the pattern consistency and the softer push at the shoulder.
Chokes, Capacity and Handling
Five extended black choke tubes ship with every Retay Ace Paloma, covering cylinder through full. Extended tubes are the right call for a sporting shotgun because you change them constantly between stations and doing it by hand rather than with a wrench saves real time and real frustration.
Capacity on the Retay Ace Paloma is 3+1 with a 3 inch chamber. The receiver is not drilled and tapped on this model, which is worth knowing if you had a rib mounted optic in mind. For clays and wingshooting the single fiber optic bead is the correct and traditional arrangement anyway.
Handling is where a Retay Ace Paloma earns its keep. Six pounds five ounces with a 28 inch barrel gives you a gun that is quick between targets without being so light that it stops swinging. Length of pull is 14.5 inches and a shim kit is included, so drop and cast can be set properly without a stock fitter.
Specifications
- UPC: 193212036322
- Model: ACEPAL-28
- Gauge: 12, 3 in chamber
- Barrel: 28 in, deep bore drilled, factory lengthened forcing cone
- Capacity: 3+1
- Action: Inertia Plus rotating bolt with rollover torsion spring
- Finish: Polished black
- Chokes: Five extended black tubes, cylinder through full
- Sight: Single fiber optic bead
- Trigger group: Push button removable, no tools
- Receiver: Not drilled and tapped
- Length of pull: 14.5 in, shim kit included
- Weight: 6 lbs 5 oz
- Warranty: Retay USA limited lifetime
Who It Is For
Clays shooters on a budget are the obvious audience. A Retay Ace Paloma costs a fraction of a dedicated sporting over and under and gives you a light, quick gun with a good trigger and easy choke changes, which covers most of what a club shooter actually needs.
Dove and upland hunters get a lot out of it too. A Retay Ace Paloma at six pounds five ounces carries well in a field, the polished finish wipes clean, and the 3 inch chamber handles anything you would reasonably shoot at birds over decoys or in stubble.
Where it is not the right gun is waterfowl. There is no camouflage, no 3.5 inch chamber and no drilled and tapped receiver, and a polished black shotgun in a duck blind is doing you no favors. The Ace in Bottomland or Max-7 is the gun for that job.
A few practical notes before ordering a Retay Ace Paloma. Set the stock up with the included shim kit before your first round, because a light gun rewards proper fit and punishes a poor one. Break it in with standard velocity target loads rather than the lightest promotional shells, since inertia actions need a certain amount of recoil energy to cycle reliably when new.
Keep a spare choke or two in the bag, and take advantage of the push button trigger group removal when you clean it, because doing it without tools is the whole point. Full factory specifications are published on the Retay USA product page, and you can compare it against the Ace Walnut or browse our other shotguns.
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