Description
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 inch model is the long barrel camo twenty in Retay inertia line. Full pattern coverage from butt to muzzle, a 3 inch chamber, and enough barrel to keep a swing honest on birds that are already moving when you see them.
What the Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 Inch Adds
Two extra inches over the 26 inch gun puts more weight ahead of your hands, and that weight is what carries a swing through a crossing bird rather than letting it stop. On open water, cut fields and long passing shots it is the better barrel. In timber and tight cover the shorter gun comes up quicker.
Camouflage coverage on the Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 is complete. Realtree Legacy runs across the stock, the fore end, the receiver and the 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 matters more than the specific pattern ever will.
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 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. With no gas system there is nothing to foul after a wet morning and considerably less to clean at the end of a season.
Chamber, Capacity and Fit
A 3 inch chamber and 3+1 capacity means a Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 handles light dove loads and heavier steel for ducks without changing guns. Twenty gauge steel has improved enormously over the past decade, and a well chosen choke and load makes this a genuine waterfowl gun rather than a compromise.
The Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 barrel is deep bore drilled from straight stock and the forcing cone is lengthened at the factory. Both aim at the same pair of outcomes, more consistent patterns and a softer push, and in a light twenty gauge you notice both.
A Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 has a 14.5 inch length of pull and a shim kit for drop and cast, and the trigger group comes out at the push of a button with no tools. The sight is a single fiber optic bead, which is the correct arrangement on a gun that gets pointed rather than aimed.
Specifications
- UPC: 193212047731
- Model: B-ACELEG-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
- 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
- Receiver: Not drilled and tapped in 20 gauge
- Warranty: Retay USA limited lifetime
Who Should Take the Longer Barrel
Waterfowl hunters shooting over open water or decoys in a field are the natural buyers. A Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28 tracks more smoothly on the long crossing shots that define that kind of hunting, and it is still a twenty gauge, so nothing about it is a burden.
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 shiny barrel while you wait.
Where the 26 inch version wins is timber, small ponds and anything involving a quick mount in cover. Both guns are the same price and carry the same lifetime warranty, so pick on handling rather than on specification.
A few practical notes before ordering a Retay Ace Realtree Legacy 28. Fit the stock with the included shim kit before the season, because a light gun rewards good fit and a longer barrel makes a poor fit more obvious. 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 26 inch version or browse our other shotguns.
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