My short review from the first outing with mine.
"Well, I just got back from the range. Of course the Tavor was cleaned and lubed before hand and the only thing I did to it was sit a Romeo 5 on the rail.
Straight off the bat the Romeo was 1" low and 1" left at 25 yards shooting the Federal Truball rifled slugs so I had it zero'ed in 2 shots, but I took 5.
After that I put 20 more Truball slugs, 25 Federal black box 2 3/4 00B, 5 rounds of 3" 00B, 75 rounds of some crappy, low brass, steel shot ( lower velocity than IWI recommends) and 175 rounds of various brands and types of target loads, some over and some under the recommended 1200 fps. The gun ran flawlessly. Loading is very fast and convenient. The learning curve, well, there really isn't a learning curve. It's all very intuitive and simple. The Tavor is extremely forgiving on your shoulder. When I zero'ed the Romeo on my KSG25 I shot 11 slugs and my shoulder was black and sore for a couple days. Today I shot 25 of those 1600 fps slugs, plus some 3" 00B and all that black box and my shoulder is perfectly fine.
I totally destroyed one of my course sleds I build for drills. Those slugs are particularly brutal.
I have 4 days off this week and the weather is supposed to be nice. Sunny and upper 50s so I'm going to put another 500 or so through it, but so far I have faith in it's reliability and the odds of it being put into the rotation on the home front are very good indeed.
So if you've been on the fence about the Tavor TS12, get on down and buy one. PSA has them right now for $1500. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.''
I had to rebuild the "Sled" I use for shotguns and as simulations for cover. I will be going back out to the range this morning to put a few hundred more through the Tavor as well as some handguns.
I build these out of pallets and I screw the banding slats to the sides for legs.
Here you can see the damage. The big gaping holes from repeated barrages of slugs and 00B. The two holes at the top left are from the 3" slugs which had a significantly different POI.
Here you can see a wad flew out of the shotgun with enough force to embed itself in a support slat @ 25 yards.
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