T Bacus
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All funning aside. Benelli-Rockcastle is less than a month away, are the one piece tubes going to be ready any time soon? I need to get something on my gun in the next week or so.
Tim
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Ordered mine from holsters.com, that is Safarilands web store. Product arrived in about a week.
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I have a carrier getting welded now. I will have to take that spring out.
How hard is it to swap the carriers?
Ted
Mine was easy, I let Triangle do it!
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What does the shell release spring do and why does removing it help with the reloads?
It keeps tension on the shell release. There are two springs, an inner and an outer. Many feel the inner spring adds extra tension that is only needed to keep the gun reliable when shooting the heaviest 3 & 3.5" loads. Removing the inner spring reduces the effort needed to push shells past the release and does not seem to interfere with the reliability of the 2.75" shells used in competition.
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Can't say, I've never shot a 930. The 930s are very fast cycling guns so it could be the recoil is perceived as sharper.
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So in regards to the VM, how does it have less recoil with 2-3/4" target loads? I understand with 3" and 3-1/2" magnum loads that it uses less gas by covering some of the ports used to cycle the action. But with 2-3/4 loads it has all ports open just like any other gun would. Am I missing something other than maybe stock and buttpad design?
It weighs more. All else being equal a heavier gun is always going to kick less than a lighter gun.
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I have to agree with Jesse, as far as game guns go the side saddles days are over.
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Entries sent in. Can't wait!
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T Bacus, this looks very good. I did mine a while back but I can see by your pic I need to get more aggressive and take more material off.
Did you do this with hand tools or use a milling machine?
I used a vertical mill for the cuts and then cleaned them up with a foredom (fancy dremel).
As for finish, the gun went off today to Metaloy for hard chrome. Will post pics when it gets back.
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After getting my VersaMax back from Triangle I decided to try opening up a loading port myself. My son likes shooting his 870 when we 3 gun together so I decided his gun was my perfect victim, I mean patient.
I'm rather pleased with how it came out.
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Remchokes will not fit the Probore guns, completely different thread pattern and location. Not all, but most, (myself included) recommend getting a Light Modified choke for all-round 3 gun use.
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I bought the GG&G side saddle and was just going to tap two holes in the side of the receiver for it. I ended up not installing it because loading from a saddle is so much slower than a load two or load four. If I need more rounds I'll just add another shell holder to my belt.
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Not a graphics guru. I drew a rough design of what i wanted using Microsoft Paint. Sent it to Techwear and they did a great job turning it into what I wanted.
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No experience with the Mossberg but I used them in my 1100 and my Versamax and never had a problem with them. I would still be using them but couldn't find enough for this year so I bought 40 boxes of Win Lite Winchesters.
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I considered getting a rear sight put on it but decided to wait. I had PRK done in early Feb and I want to wait till my eyes have completely healed before making any sighting decisions.
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Birdshot is easy. I rarely miss. But slugs are an entirely different measuring stick.
Here's a little tip I've given out for years. Nobody ever won a match by being good at the easy stuff. Figure out whats hard, the things you don't like, and practice the heck out of them. Practicing to cut a half second off your time to clear a plate rack or a bank of clays is pointless if it takes you three shots to hit one plate at 60 yards with a slug. Same with pistol, all the practice up close is a waste of time if you can't hit at 50 yards. We've all seen a match were a particularly hard pistol shot has people taking 10, 15, 20 shots to hit one or two difficult targets. You want be the guy who is happy there is a 75 yard pistol target because you know you can hit it and most others can't.
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I have shot a couple dozen slugs with it since and it is much better. At 50 yards at least I can hit within a foot of where I want. At 100 yards though I can't consistently hit a big piece of cardboard. Not sure where the problem is. Does anyone know if the slug is rising or falling between 50 and 100 yards?
Part of the problem is that you still don't know were your gun is hitting. If the best you can tell us is "it hits within a foot" at 50 yards you really have no idea what your gun is doing.
My first question is, do you have a repeatable sight picture with your shotgun? There are people who can shoot slugs pretty well with only a front bead but it is very difficult for most to do so. Most guns will come equipped with a front bead and a mid bead. I really think this is the minimum sight picture you want for 3-gun. With my last gun the mid bead dead center in the front bead put me about 6" high at 50 yards and almost dead on at 100.
You need to get out and shoot your gun for accuracy. Set up a target at 25 yards and shoot 5 slugs, using exactly the same sight picture and aiming at the same point on the target for each shot. This will then tell us two things. Do you have a group? If all five slugs are not within a couple of inches of each other then you need to practice sight alignment and trigger control until you can shoot a consistent group. If the group is good, but no were near the point of aim then you need to look into more adjustable sights or barrel bending until it is close.
Once you can shoot a group at 25 yards and it is close to center then it's time to step back to 50 yards. The best target to use at this point is an 8" paper plate. Now repeat the above. Shoot for the center of the plate with five slugs. Your looking for a 4-5" group in the center of the plate, or a few inches high. If you can't hold a 5" group off-hand at 50 yards practice until you can. Once you're confident at 50 yards it's then time to step it back to 100 yards and keep your group in that same paper plate. Another thing, once you are shooting groups at 50 yards it's time to test several brands of slugs. Once in a wile you will have a gun/slug combo that is just not accurate, and you need to insure that your gun/slug combo is..
It's not hard to do, the problem is most shooters don't take the time with their shotguns to really learn to shoot slugs, after all, they are a small part of even the biggest match. However, knowing you can go into a match and make any slug shot they throw at you boosts your confidence level, and that ups your entire game. I hope this was helpful.
Tim
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Hmmm, maybe that's why the one-piece VM +2 tubes aren't done!!! Now that my gun is back from Triangle I'm 10X as impatient for my one piece green tube.
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Any word if Hornady plans on sponsoring a Zombie Pandemic 2013 match this year?
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Not the greatest pics but here are a couple...
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I hate to hijack a posting but I have a Benelli M2 are you guys at Triangle too busy putting together new gun packages or are you taking in customer guns?
Tom
This question makes me think you did not read my post.
Tim
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Not a 100% certain but I believe it should be the +6 that is more or less flush with a 26" barrel.
My math, +4 is flush with a 22" and +5 with a 24". So +6 should be close to a 26" barrel.
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Thanks guys, I feel stupid now. I have been out and pushed the M2 handle a bit harder and it's clicked in the VM.
Should have ate your Weaties!
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I got my VMT Zombie gun back from TSS yesterday, looks great. I only had a chance to put 25 rounds of STS Nitro 27's through it but they functioned perfectly. I will get pictures posted here later today if I can figure out how to get them off my phone. Anyway, I can highly recommend TSS, the work is excellent and turnaround was very fast, 3 days for UPS to get it there, five days at TSS and then UPS dragged their feet and took eight days to get it back to me. Just under three weeks total.
Versa Max Tactical extended end cap testing
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Thanks Ben, but I'm really wanting the green tube from Roulette, to match my gun you know! Otherwise I'd have picked up one of the Lancer carbon tubes.