Description
The Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge is a semi automatic in a bore most people only ever see in a double. Five pounds five ounces, Turkish walnut, a 26 inch barrel and an inertia action, built for the shooter who has decided that twenty eight gauge is enough gun and would like it to cycle for them.
Why a Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge Makes Sense
The Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge trades on a bore with a reputation for shooting above its weight, and most of that reputation is earned. The short shot column produces good patterns with modest payloads, recoil is genuinely mild, and a gun built around the bore rather than scaled down from a larger one carries like nothing else. This is a scaled frame gun, not a twenty with a smaller barrel.
Semi automatic twenty eights like the Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge are rare, and most of the ones that exist are gas guns. An inertia action suits the bore better because there is less to add to a gun whose whole appeal is being light. Retay Inertia Plus bolt uses a rollover torsion spring to rotate the bolt head positively into battery, which solves the old inertia gun complaint about being knocked out of lockup.
The Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge barrel is deep bore drilled from straight stock with a factory lengthened forcing cone. On a small bore that matters more than it does on a twelve, because you have fewer pellets to work with and every one that survives the transition into the barrel counts on the pattern board.
Capacity, Wood and Setup
Capacity on the Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge is 2+1 with a 3 inch chamber. Two plus one is plenty over a pointing dog and is already plugged for migratory bird rules, and the 3 inch chamber opens the door to the heavier twenty eight gauge loads that have appeared in recent years.
A Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge wears Turkish walnut, and Retay is upfront that wood grade varies, so expect natural variation in figure from gun to gun. Length of pull is 14.5 inches with a shim kit in the box for adjusting drop and cast, which is worth doing properly on a gun this light.
The Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge trigger group removes at the push of a button with no tools, so cleaning happens at the tailgate rather than on a bench, and a gun stored with its trigger group out cannot be fired. The sight is a single fiber optic bead, which is exactly right on a gun meant to be pointed.
Specifications
- UPC: 193212036100
- Model: C-ACEWAL-26
- Gauge: 28, 3 in chamber
- Barrel: 26 in, deep bore drilled, factory lengthened forcing cone
- Capacity: 2+1
- Action: Inertia Plus rotating bolt with rollover torsion spring
- Trigger group: Push button removable, no tools
- Sight: Single fiber optic bead
- Stock: Turkish walnut, shim kit included
- Recoil pad: AIRY air pocket system
- Length of pull: 14.5 in with shims
- Weight: 5 lbs 5 oz
- Receiver: Not drilled and tapped in 28 gauge
- Warranty: Retay USA limited lifetime
Who Should Buy One
Upland hunters who have shot a twenty eight and cannot go back are the audience. Quail, woodcock, grouse, early season doves. A Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge does that work with very little recoil and very little weight, and it does it with a third shell available if the first two go astray.
It is also an excellent gun for a younger or smaller framed shooter who has outgrown a youth twenty. Recoil is mild enough that nobody develops a flinch, the gun mounts easily at five pounds five ounces, and the shim kit means the stock can be fitted rather than grown into.
The honest limitation is ammunition. Twenty eight gauge shells cost more and are harder to find than twelve or twenty, and the load selection is narrower, particularly in non toxic shot. Budget accordingly and buy a case when you find what you like.
A few practical notes before ordering a Retay Ace Walnut 28 Gauge. Fit the stock with the included shim kit before you hunt it, because a five pound gun shows up a poor fit immediately. Break the action in with standard field loads rather than the lightest target shells, since inertia systems need recoil energy to cycle reliably when new and a small bore has less of it to give. Stock up on ammunition when you find a load that patterns well.
Keep the wood oiled, and use the push button trigger group removal for cleaning. Full factory specifications are published on the Retay USA product page, and you can compare it against the 20 gauge Ace Walnut or browse our other shotguns.
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