So i shot my buddies brand new xm12. he just got it last night and we put a box of target load and some number 4 shot to test the patterns out.
had a nice little Venom red dot which was great. got it shooting point of aim (majority of the shot anyway) at about 20 metres with a good pattern (IC and M chokes installed from factory). Excellent little gun, for just over 1k i think its a really neat bit of kit.
makes me wonder why i ever overlooked the humble U/O in the first place.
Now if they can put all the fruit on a standard wood churchill i'll probably end up getting one.