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If your Colt is the .312 dia pin you can get an adapter 231-015-016WB from Brownells. This mount will put the scope lower 100-000-498WB, also Brownells
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I'm a fan of the EOTech. 1 Minute dot doesn't cover targets when they start putting them a ways out there.
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12 gauge spring will be the same spring for all the different brands of guns. Just cut to length. I use 12-14" past the end of an extended tube but don't know if that rule of thumb applies to shorter tubes.
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I didn't stay at Holiday Inn express but 193 is pretty hot ammo and feels snappy in my gun. I have the JP light carrier, captured buffer and adj gas, turned down to just above what it takes to lock the bolt back. I still feels snappier than some 75 grain Hornady Tap I was shooting the other day.
After all that, my answer is, in my experience, not really. It's going to bark but I shoot a lot of it too and love it because the price is comparatively reasonable. It does fine on accuracy out to around 300, seems to open up beyond there. For an FMJ it is surprisingly effective on coyotes. I used to shoot 52 grain hollow points and the 193 seems to stop them just as well. Plus, i don't have to load it and I hate reloading so....
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There are techniques for shooting great groups. Had a benchrest guy work with me a couple of times. I've forgotten much of it but it was amazing to watch my groups shrink. How you hold the gun on the rest, having a good rest, with a good bag under the butt, your breathing, feeling the wind on your face before every shot, pulling the trigger and not the gun, returning the gun to the same spot every time, it's a whole process.
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Once you get close, get some big sheets of paper 30-40" wide and head to the range. It's called patterning and many shotgun ranges will have either a frame to hold the paper or a steel patterning target that gets coated with white grease between shots. Aim at a spot and see where the pattern hits. I think traditional is 40 yards but I use 20-22 and it seems to work fine. Takes a lot of time but really pays off. The paper I use is wide "masking" paper used for auto painting. Bought a 100 foot roll years ago for a project, am still working off it.
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Elbow pads for those prone stages. Sorry, I'm a wimp.
Handiwipes
If you're driving and have room:
Tool kit with spare parts
Cleaning rags, hotels don't like it when you use their towels - I don't usually clean during a match, just add oil.
Choke Tubes
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Get out your DeWalt, use this rod 080-000-254WB (Brownells) with a brush of your choice wrapped with 080-000-321, Stainless sponge. Leave your choke tube in, cleans entire bore, . Fast, no mess. I haven't swabbed or put chemicals in my shotgun barrel for several years.
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Happy to have been there. I was my usual accurate but horribly slow. Really good stages, Dillen's fresh take on the bays made them fun. Making a fat, out of shape, old man stand up after being prone was cruel and unusual but I was happy not to time out on the long range stage. Good ROs as always. The 3 stages we shot in the rain were pretty well water proofed with all their experience with wet conditions. 200 rifle off hand put my coyote chasing experience to work, paid off, three shots on the two targets, one for one on the 100 yard. Just need to practice shooting shotgun, prone, through a 10" high opening. Mrrmph, grrrmmmpf, Easley!
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It works like a shoulder thing that goes up, right? Seriously, I wonder if Kurt's tool would work on the RCI adapter that threads into the receiver, the tube screws onto it. Once the adapter is straight, the tube should be too, in theory. When I installed mine I put the adapter in, mag tube on, barrel and forend on and clamped it with the nut, hoping the barrel would move the tube to a happy place and when the Loctite set up everything would be fine. Seemed to work, shoots slugs to the same point of aim as with the factory tube and NC extension.
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I stand corrected CJW. I was thinking about the add-on external clamps.
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The RCI tube doesn't use a clamp so shouldn't affect barrel
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1.4 oz
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54" 3-Gun case (soft) from Brownells (084-000-384/-385) holds my buddy's M2 with a 12 round tube, has to angle it and squeeze a bit. Pelican hard case (1770 I think) is 54" inside and will take the 54" soft bag for airline/UPS.
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Remington wouldn't make any more for us (I work at Brownells). The box was probably a photo dummy. These are made by a different outfit, specifically for us. The Remington version had a blank primer pocket area, these have a pocket with a poly-something insert.
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Just got word from our products folks that we finally have 12 ga. Dummies. Here's the link
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I have a TacMod and love it. I have no neck and even my EOTech on the little 7mm high QD mount is too high for me when I go prone. The cheekpiece allowed me to get a solid cheekweld when prone so my head isn't waving around in the breeze. Titled the buttpad to fit my shoulder pocket and I'm much more confident at the long range stuff.
BUT, since I'm short and my head is close to the charging handle, I had to change to a side charge upper - stock charging handle runs into the cheekpiece.
Had a compliment at SMM3G from a guy I've shot with before, he mentioned that he thought my rifle shooting was much better than he remembered. I blew enough pistol shots that my score didn't show any better but I feel really confident when I lay down on the ground with that gun.
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I don't use a rear sight and just bury the bead so I only see half of it at 50 yds. and see the whole bead at 100. Seems to hit the big steel we generally shoot at, as long as this indian holds his bow steady.
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The M2 has a stock shim setup that can help with drop and cast to get it on target. If it was new, you should have the shims and the steel plates in the package. If you have to add a lot of cast, as I did, it gets a bit more complicated but I figured it out. If you're using a barrel/mag tube clamp, take it off and see if the gun hits differently. Assume since you are saying your gunsmith reseated the magazine tube as Kurt Miller talks about, so it really shouldn't be your problem, but worth a check.
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I don't want to argue but I've seen the welded lifter argument when talking about Benellis and other guns. Someone said to me, if it will lift 1oz. shells and 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 oz. shells, what difference will a few grams of extra steel on the lifter make? Maybe it won't lift the 1-1/2 oz shells anymore but we don't shoot them. Gave me something to think about.
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I have dead stock mags and all work great. Did have the lips open up on one, not much luck beating, bending them back. The stock springs and followers, with the spacer, work better than the aftermarket followers and springs I've tried, for me. I even fed 9mm out of stock, Super followers, no spacer, and those worked fine too. YMMV
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Have a JP I love, just saw AP Industries skeletonized carrier at NRA, wow! Really light.
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Jerry's "Practical Rifle" (Brownells #100-004-974) is very good as is Noveske's update, "Three Gun Hero" (Brownells #100-011-559) is better-produced, than "Outlaw", I think it covers stage breakdown better. They'll give you a starting point for some help. BUT, as others have said, nothing beats a class, followed by rewatching the videos and practicing, a whole lot.
The Noveske bunch will come to your range and train a group as will the others that have been previously mentioned. Jerry puts about 60,000 rounds down range every year, not sure about the rest of them but I'd bet the AMU guys shoot that much or more - that's what it takes to get good.
I've RO'd all the good shooters and been lucky enough to be squaded with many of them, had a little training from them and "know" what to do, but I still suck because I don't practice enough.
The videos are a good start but that's all.
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When I take my 21" Benelli with the tube sticking past the barrel to the trap range everyone is all over it. Leave it in the rack, sit back and listen to the speculation on what the heck that is. I've shot 24 with it a couple of times (more likely to shoot 18 to 22) and that really shocks them.
Is timing Jerry Miculek comp necessary?
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I'd say it depends on you. If you need to time it to get it to shoot flat, do it. If you and your gun shoot flat without any high right with the comp straight up, leave it. I have a Rolling Thunder that I've tuned for me, bigger hole in the top, and one on the right side. Jerry shot it and said it pushed low left for him. Don't shoot open so can't speak to anything about that.