Description
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy is the camouflaged twenty gauge in Retay flagship inertia line, wearing full coverage Realtree Legacy over a 26 inch barrel and weighing five pounds nine ounces. It is aimed at the hunter who wants a camo gun that is still light enough to walk with all day.
What the Retay Ace Realtree Legacy Brings
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy wears a browns and grays pattern built to break up outline in timber and field edges rather than in a marsh. Retay applies it across the stock, the fore end, the receiver and the barrel, so there is no black steel showing where a bird can catch it. On a gun that gets rested on a knee or a blind rail, that full coverage matters more than the specific pattern does.
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy action is inertia driven. The Inertia Plus bolt uses a rollover torsion spring to positively rotate the bolt head into battery, which addresses the one legitimate complaint about inertia guns, namely being knocked out of lockup when slung or bumped. With no gas system there is nothing to foul after a wet morning and nothing to scrub at the end of the season.
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy barrel is deep bore drilled from straight stock and the forcing cone is lengthened at the factory. Both changes aim at more consistent patterns and a softer push, and both are worth more in a light twenty gauge than they would be in a heavy twelve.
Weight, Capacity and Handling
Five pounds nine ounces with a 26 inch barrel is the practical middle. It carries like an upland gun and swings like a field gun, which is a harder combination to get right than the numbers suggest. A Retay Ace Realtree Legacy will not wear you out on a long walk to a beaver pond.
Capacity on the Retay Ace Realtree Legacy is 3+1 with a 3 inch chamber, which covers everything from light dove loads to heavier steel for ducks over decoys. Twenty gauge steel has improved enormously in the last decade, and a properly choked twenty is no longer a handicap inside reasonable range.
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy trigger group comes out at the push of a button with no tools, so cleaning happens at the tailgate rather than on a bench. Length of pull is 14.5 inches, a shim kit is included for drop and cast, and the sight is a single fiber optic bead.
Specifications
- UPC: 193212047717
- Model: B-ACELEG-26
- Gauge: 20, 3 in chamber
- Barrel: 26 in, deep bore drilled, factory lengthened forcing cone
- Capacity: 3+1
- Action: Inertia Plus rotating bolt with rollover torsion spring
- 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
- Weight: 5 lbs 9 oz
- Warranty: Retay USA limited lifetime
Who Should Buy It
Hunters who want one camo gun for ducks, doves and upland are the natural buyers. A Retay Ace Realtree Legacy is light enough to walk with, wet enough rated to sit in a blind, and camouflaged enough that you are not hiding a black shotgun under your leg.
It also suits shooters who find a twelve gauge more gun than they need. Recoil is milder, the gun carries better, and modern twenty gauge loads cover more ground than the caliber reputation would suggest. A Retay Ace Realtree Legacy is a serious hunting shotgun rather than a starter gun.
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 in Bottomland and Max-7 for exactly that.
A few practical notes before ordering a Retay Ace Realtree Legacy. Fit the stock with the included shim kit first, because a light gun rewards good fit and punishes bad fit 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 steel load you actually intend to hunt, because twenty gauge steel is far more choke sensitive than lead.
And use the push button trigger group removal after wet days, which is the whole reason Retay designed it that way. Full factory specifications are published on the Retay USA product page, and you can compare it against the Ace Walnut 20 gauge or browse our other shotguns.
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