Description
The Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy is the camouflaged twenty in the rounded receiver line, built here with a 28 inch barrel and a 3 inch chamber. Full pattern coverage from butt to muzzle, a streamlined alloy receiver, and enough barrel to keep a swing honest on birds that are already moving when you see them.
What the Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy Offers
Camouflage coverage on the Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy is complete. Realtree Legacy runs across the stock, fore end, receiver and barrel, so there is no bare steel catching light where a bird can see it. On a gun that gets rested across a blind rail or a knee, that full coverage matters more than the specific pattern does.
The Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy receiver is what separates the R line from the standard Ace. Retay calls it a streamlined profile, which rounds off the squared lines into something closer to a traditional shotgun. Construction is alloy with no polymer components, which keeps a 28 inch twenty gauge light in the hands.
The Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy action is inertia driven. The Inertia Plus bolt uses a rollover torsion spring to rotate the bolt head positively into battery, which solves the old problem of inertia guns being jarred out of lockup. No gas system means nothing to foul after a wet morning and less to clean at the end of a season.
Chamber, Capacity and Handling
A 3 inch chamber and 3+1 capacity means a Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy handles light dove loads and heavier steel for ducks without changing guns. Twenty gauge steel has improved enormously over the past decade, and a properly choked twenty is no longer a handicap inside sensible range.
Twenty eight inches of barrel on a Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy is the right choice for open water and cut fields, where the long crossing shot is the one that defines the hunt. It puts a little more weight ahead of your hands, and that weight is what carries a swing through the bird rather than letting it stall.
The Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy barrel is deep bore drilled from straight stock and the forcing cone is lengthened at the factory, aimed at more consistent patterns and a gentler push. Length of pull is 14.5 inches with a shim kit, and the trigger group comes out at the push of a button with no tools.
Specifications
- UPC: 193212047779
- Model: B-RACELEG-28
- Gauge: 20, 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
- Receiver: Streamlined alloy profile, not drilled and tapped in 20 gauge
- Finish: Realtree Legacy camouflage, full coverage
- Trigger group: Push button removable, no tools
- Sight: Single fiber optic bead
- Stock: Synthetic with shim kit
- Recoil pad: AIRY air pocket system
- Length of pull: 14.5 in with shims
- Warranty: Retay USA limited lifetime
Who Should Buy It
Waterfowl hunters who want one light camo gun are the natural buyers. A Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy is light enough to walk into a beaver pond with, camouflaged enough to sit in a blind with, and mild enough in recoil that a full morning does not leave a mark.
Dove hunters get the same benefit. Long passing birds over a sunflower field reward a gun that keeps moving, and the full camo finish means you are not flagging birds with a bright barrel while you wait.
Where it is not the right tool is big water or heavy goose work, where a 3.5 inch twelve and more magazine capacity earn their keep. Retay builds the twelve gauge Ace and Ace-R in Bottomland and Max-7 for exactly that.
A few practical notes before ordering a Retay Ace-R Realtree Legacy. Fit the stock with the included shim kit before the season, because a light gun rewards good fit and punishes a bad one quickly. Break the action in with normal field loads rather than the softest target shells, since inertia systems need recoil energy to cycle reliably when new. Pattern the gun with the exact steel load you plan to hunt, because twenty gauge steel is far more choke sensitive than lead. And use the push button trigger group removal after wet days.
Full factory specifications are published on the Retay USA product page, and you can compare it against the standard Ace Realtree Legacy 28 or browse our other shotguns.
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