kurtm

A great gunsmith once said "it doesn't really matter how many holes your comp has, nor the angles of the ports nearly as much as the rounds through it"! I find these days I need less practice to still be competitive due to the number rounds I have put through my comp. It allows me free time to remind people that there is a "best" for you, but not a "best".

I'm pretty sure you missed the "Get behind your rifle, shoot it, play around with it and then go with what works for you!" Go through 80 different brakes if that's what it takes, test and try away to your heart's desire, at some point you will find what works for you! I have tried all sorts of brakes, folks say to me try my rifle!! It is the flattest softest rifle in the world, you really need to get XXXX brake, and when I do I realize I'm glad I didn't spend my $$ on it. Not because it isn't a 12 course meal and a bag of chips, tested by NASA and approved by White labs, I'm glad I didn't, because it doesn't work for me. I'm sure that'll the stuff I use is not the latest greatest there are so much better, flow tested, etc. but what I do have works for me, and it still gives good results. At some point it is far better to go shoot a couple thousand rounds, than to keep changing a muzzle device to the latest thing.

All this mental masturbation is cool..... I guess! So much of this depends on who is holding the rifle, how they hold a rifle, and what they are use to! For me the original J.P. Cooley comp works great I can easily double tap a 100 yard C zone steel with boring regularity. Give me a SJC and I'm all over the place. The flattest rifle I have is a practice rifle with a full weight A2 carrier and a Rolling Thunder comp! All these "best comp" threads are pointless as F! Get behind your rifle, shoot it, play around with it and then go with what works for you! You can try to "buy" better placement with the latest greatest blasty POS but it won't help you in the least! GET BEHIND YOUR RIFLE AND SHOOT!!!

Well, great stages took a powder when match directors quit designing stages with a purpose in mind, or what I call scenario based stages. Shred hits it on the head!!! Sorry couldn't resist. Too many match directors tell their set up staff, just scatter a bunch of targets out there with a stupid high round count.... It will be great! Hide a bunch of them so it takes a while..... Well that blows!!! High round count doesn't equal fun! Now high round count can be very fun.... If it has a point. And low round count can be very challenging and fun. When I design stages I keep in mind what shooting aspect I want to test, is it changing magazines prone, am I testing shotgunshell holders from low kneeling in a port... Can you load with what you have? Am I testing concentration? Am I testing front sight awareness? Every stage should have a point! The I'm gonna have the largest round count shotgun stage ever isn't a point, and it isn't fun! Shot a stage today at our monthly that was incredible! 20 rounds rifle and 13 rounds of shotgun, fast time was 40 seconds, and it was so damn busy that everyone left that stage with a huge grin! Tested a rifle mag change, tested shotgun loading system in a very tight area, and tested the hell out of a front sight focus. This stage was in a bay 20 yds wide and 30 yards deep. The shooting was actually very easy, but with the tight shooting areas, and a change your rifle mag "somewhere" along the line it was a mind game and a half. Far better than " just scatter a bunch of crap out there and hike the round count cause folk just want to shoot a lot!!!"

Welcome Boomstick303, I hope you have a great time! I will give you a small slice of advice. Working gear is #1. A good zero on your rifle and pistol is #2..... Now for unsolicited advice..... Don't get too wrapped up on shotgun loading. If you can load a shell a second under match conditions you are doing great! Here is the most important point! Shotgun is a DON'T MISS firearm. No matter how fast you load, no matter how fast you can shoot every miss with a shotgun costs 1-1 1/2 seconds. First you have to realize you missed, next you have to load that round back in, then you have to aim again and press the trigger. Chances are you will be flustered from miss and there is a higher probability you will miss again. Take your time and don't miss with the shotgun!

To kind of build on some of the things said, you have to consider where these new shooters come from. They are ardent followers of the "spec ops" type guys seen all over social media. The kind of guys who say zero at 25 yards. Puts you on all the way out to 500, you gotta use the C clamp hold or you will never shoot so very good. The shotguns are only for breaching and stupid for anything else crowd. They show up at a match and can't hit a 10" plate at 100, and when you tell them their zero is off they argue the ChrisMattJeff all recommend the 25/50 yard zero, and how could you know anything. Their gear doesn't run well, their gear gets in their way, and they already don't like shotguns. Their idea of a great match is no target farther than 40-50 yards and lots and lots of bullets. I've been told our stages would be a lot more fun if the were 2-3 full magazines, all CQB style, with no no shoots! And no pistol target over 10 yards, after all in combat situations there are no no shoots. They always come with the latest greatest battle comp short carbine with more crap hung off of it than you can buy in a Tapco catalogue, and can't even get into prone due to the great amount of gear carried on their plate carriers. Their view of a match is far different and how it runs is far different. Why should we tape? I've been asked that. At a class this guy attended where they shot 1700 rounds in two days to really fine tune things they never taped. They get frustrated fast when they find that the "mind skill" level that they had from UTube doesn't match what that level is and rather than ask why am I not doing well, they drop back on "well Ian says 3-gun matches are stupid anyway". Your not going to keep them around as new shooters, because they already come thinking it going to be stupid, and when they can't perform to their minds eye, it is stupid.. The "new shooters" of 10 years ago showed up for the fancy bowling shirts and the prize tables and the desire to be thought of as great, a far different mind set than now. No, I didn't like what 3GN did to the sport, but it did bring motivated shooters, even if it was just for fame. Very few are still around, when the fame ran out so did they. But hey we are shooting 3-gun tomorrow and we still run the same old rules since 1996, and to me it's still a blast.

I've always had good luck with the J.P. comp, but haven't tried their 3 port comp. I would suspect it is a great comp. I will probably pick one up as my original design comp is just about chewed out.

No one said they put the trigger group in it right from the factory. Pull the trigger group, push the shell release in while reinserting the trigger group and give it a try. While you have the trigger group out look for any foreign junk. It is easy to do, and takes almost no time at all!

I don't know if this helps or not, but when you put the trigger housing in after disassembly you have to press the mag release button while you rock the assembly into the frame. If not it can impede the shell cutoff lever.

Can you pull the bolt all the way back by hand? Or does it stop hard where your picture is?

Hello my Greek friend, get a stiffer lifter spring from a Super Black Eagle and bevel the sharp shelf on the back of the shell cutoff lever. Sharp area. That needs to be beveled is at point of knife. It is soft and can easily be filed.

I'm pretty sure this was 1992, although it could have been from 91-94. I remember shooting a couple of those stages. I shot an M1A back then and as I recall did pretty fair on the long range stage. Several of those stage set ups were recurring with a few changes over the years which is why I can't really pin it down.

Yes, the Roth is far superior to the Benelli 3-gun performance. Roth does much more to the platform than Benelli does in house. The 3-gun performance is a basically stock M2 with a bit better port, and fancy graphics. The Roth incorporates many of the tuning trick we have learned over the years to make a better platform! Yeah, I know I'm not Ranger Trace, but I have seen several Benelli and Roth guns on Armslist and once shot 1/2 of a 3-gun match till I got tired .

If you have both barrels in hand you will see that the M2 barrel has a longer platform that the barrel ring sits on. Just take a Dremel with a rotary file type cutter and extend the slot in your M1 forend to match the platform of the M-2. Best part is you can still use the forend for the M1 barrel as well.

As long as the threads in the receiver aren't messed up, you will simply screw the new tube into the receiver. I never tightened the tube down a whole bunch and would install it with BLUE Loc-Tite.... Not RED!!! Then put in the recoil spring guide and spring and screw on the tail cap tighten this part a bit over hand tight and your good to go! It can be a bit difficult screwing on the tail cap as it is under spring tension untill you get the threads started. Be careful the tail cap can fly off a ways if you let it get away.

It will be 5 less than a V8??? Or 3 more than just a V???? Pull the trigger group and if it looks like an 1100 type set up it's a V3, or more like a 1301 than an 1100. If the trigger group looks like a Benelli it's a regular Versa-Max. I really don't recall if it's marked any different or not. Buddy of mine has one(V3) but it's been a couple of years since I played with it, but I remember at the time being VERY impressed with it and it hasn't let him down yet!!!

Well howdy Brian and Ryan, it has been awhile!!

The V3 Versa-Max is not the same as a Versa-Max. The V3 doesn't take any Benelli parts that I know of and in my opinion is one of the best shotguns ever made. Now I don't know about longevity like the Benelli, but Remington finally got one right!!!...... Just in time to fold! I was going to switch over, but now they seem to be unobtainium!

Yes, it is ok! Some are very tight, but most are loose like yours. It won't hurt any thing.

First thing that happens by slightly bending the carrier is it spreads the back of the carrier " slightly" where it hooks on to the trigger mechanism causing the interceptor latch to become loose. (that little dog ear that sticks up on the left side of the carrier) Now the carrier doesn't lift evenly, nor smoothly and you will chase that problem with all sorts of springs, filing and more bending! Yes I cringed "just a little", the little part is because it isn't my gun

Wow, you made me cringe a bit. I also know they used to wack barrels against trees to get their slugs to hit point of aim untill someone found out it wasn't the barrels. Moral of the story is bending is never a good idea.

I've been validated!!!!

A hanger made of plastic would be a plastic hanger. To clarify, the part that attaches to the belt and drops down to where it attaches to the holster is called a hanger, if it is made out of plastic it would be a plastic hanger.

This would give you two full sets to set up two belts or have spares, and I found bunches of different ones on line by merely googlizing ratcheting snowboard bindings. These are $25.00 for the set.

The ratchet system is nothing more than a part of a snow board binding, if your somewhere "snowy" you can get the parts, or order them on line. Maybe cheaper? I don't know, but it seems to me you could figure it out.