“After having cleared too many houses/rooms to even remember... today if I had to do it alone I would want my Tromix SBS Saiga-12 gauge. It was the one gun I had always wished I had during my tours in Iraq.”

Received by e-mail 9/7/2007

"It has taken some time to write you, as I recently returned from Iraq. First of all, I wanted to thank you. Whether you know it or not, at least 2 of your shotguns are serving in Iraq. I used your shotguns a lot and am working on saving the money to buy one for myself. The 2 we have in country have two nicknames, the "Ambush Buster" and the "VBIED killer" (Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devise = car bomb). I do not know how they were acquired, but having been in the Special Operations community for over 10 years now, I know that new "toys" pop up all the time, and those that work are used quite a bit. Your shotguns work well.

I used your shotguns quite a bit from our helicopters, to engage and destroy insurgent vehicles (multiple 12ga slugs to an engine block do wonders), as well as shoot suspicious roadside boxes, dead dogs, garbage bags, etc.

When we off load from the helos, you shotgun was again an amazing weapon system. Ammo was sometimes difficult to get. I would trade items to Marines to get more ammo. Whenever we did have enough 12ga ammo, we did a lot of good work with those shotguns."