T Bacus
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Thanks for the info, helps a lot.
Tim
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The monotube as advertised on RCIs web site is 10 round capacity. I can't tell from the picture if it has a removable end-cap to bring the capacity out to 12. Does anyone here have one, and can it be extended to 12 shots? Thanks for the help.
Tim
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Mr. Bacus, I'm pretty sure my point was that Mark doesn't recommend stuff that he hasn't tested and tried AND likes. The cool part is that he and I expect about the same for our gear, so if Mark says its good, I usually like it too. We may disagree on a few technical aspects, but if Mark likes it, it is usually "adequate to travel".........cool guy way to say " good to go"
Kurt,
I re-read my post, and with it right after yours I can see were you would think I was responding to what you wrote. My comment was that many get criticized for being fanboys of a particular gun or product to the exclusion of all others, yet here Mark was being criticized by an earlier poster for constantly 'jumping gear'. I fully understood the humor of your post and what you had said was not what I was responding to. I apologize for the confusion.
Tim
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So if you push a product to the exclusion of all else you are a fanboy, and if you move from one product to another you are a gear whore? Tough crowd.
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Nearest gun smith that can that I'm aware of is about 2 hours away. And I have a race gun I would normally use; don't want to spend much modifying this one just to be able to compete with my friend in HM.
There are dozens of gunsmiths that can install choke tubes in your barrel, and none of them are farther away than your post office.
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The recoil pad that comes on the VersaMax Sportsman model is a good 3/4" shorter than the one on the tactical and regular VersaMax. I switched them out, putting my longer tactical pad on my sons Sportsman, and his shorter pad on my tactical. Both fit fine.
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I have received their grease at a couple of matches and it seems to work great in my Versamax.
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We are wondering off topic here, because really I think the match was awesome so this not a complaint about it
Agreed, a fantastic match.
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The flippers are actually a harder target as they are only visible for a very short time and there may be more than one at a time. This was just something we don't see at every match.
That's not even close to being correct. I've shot a lot of Trap and Skeet, and a bit of 5 Stand, and those fliers required a much greater ability to hit than shooting flippers. I enjoyed the fliers and would love to see them again next year but to say that they are harder targets than flippers is just not so.
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13.5" Noveske on my 16" rifle gas upper.
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I liked the clays although this time I did not do so well! The only thing I might have changed is the penalty, five seconds instead of ten. Maybe next year put the launcher down below the hill and throw them up at the shooter. Clays coming up and at you are a fun target.
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A miss on a 350 yard target (say 10 seconds) can't reasonably be made up for with speed on the closer targets in the rest of the match.
About as true as it gets right there. You will never make up four or five extra long long range shots by hosing the close ones faster.
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Mark, I am a new shooter to the 3g world and am looking to build a dedicated 3g rifle. Which would you recommend for my level the Nordic 18 or the Stretch 16? Thanks for your help.
That depends on your size, how you set up your guns and what ranges you plan to shoot at. The Stretch16 does everything for me that I can do with the Nordic. However, if your longer range AR skills are not great, you will be able to shoot the 18" a little better.
Nothing is ever the best of both worlds, but the 16" barrel with rifle gas is pretty close. I bought an 18" rifle gas Mega Arms barrel and had it cut and re-threaded to 16 inches. Soft, not too heavy or too light, and has worked 100% from day one. Cut and re-threaded it came in right at 30oz.
Spend a little time with a Melonite Stretch 16 and your opinion might be different. The problem with a 16" with rifle gas is that you have very little margin for tuning and the operational window is small.
I am aware of the potential issues some have had with a 16" rifle gas. Fourtunately for me there have been no problems, at least so far. I am using a Seekins Precision adjustable gas block and tuned the rifle the same way I did when it had a 16" mid gas barrel. I turned the gas down until it stopped locking open, then back the screw out half a turn. I did this with 55gr PMC ball, the lightest recoiling ammo I use. The gun has run 100% with the PMC, American Eagle 55gr ball, CBC 77gr OTM and 69gr Remington Match. Initially I did not plan on using an adjustable gas block but I had the Seekins and figured, what the heck, so I gave it a try.
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I can see it both ways. Putting long range slug targets in a shotgun stage forces the shooter to manage ammo and load the correct shell for the correct target and we all consider that ok. Changing chokes from one stage to another is also ok. Given that one of the major advantages of a shotgun is it's ease in being reconfigured depending on the shots required it should come as no suprise that people will use different shells depending on what you ask them to do. From that point of view is there even a problem?
If competitors matching shells to shots required is really a problem that needs to be solved, then you have one of two solutions. The first is a more complex rules set that mandates engagements for each type of target, or one rule that covers everything. Either require the competitor to use the same ammo for the entire match or putting in a max velocity rule. There is that one other solution though, match directors can stop setting up shots that can't be made by an 18" barrel, cylinder bore shotgun using an ounce of #8's at around 1150fps.
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Nothing is ever the best of both worlds, but the 16" barrel with rifle gas is pretty close. I bought an 18" rifle gas Mega Arms barrel and had it cut and re-threaded to 16 inches. Soft, not too heavy or too light, and has worked 100% from day one. Cut and re-threaded it came in right at 30oz.
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I zero at 200 with 69gr match. For stages 0 - 200 yards I shoot PMC 55gr. If there are targets farther than 200 I shoot 69gr.
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The relationship of the sight over the bore is not parallax. The alignment of the image and crosshairs in a scope, and misalignment of them as you move your eye from the center of the scope, is parallax.
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This was our fourth team match at Topton, and this year was by far the best. Dean seems to be able to out do himself each year. Stage one was epic, 90 targets on one stage! I got to shoot more than most on this stage as one of our teams shotgun went down after 10 shots, leaving two of us to clean the other eighty targets. Stage eight, the other all shotgun stage was my favorite. On it's face it looked like a straight forward, no strategy, stage. However there were several subtle strategies that if noticed helped achive a better time.
We can't wait for next year, thanks to Dean and his great staff!
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Kurt, a two piece shotgun fits better in most range bags. Game changer!
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In an inerta gun you would need a lighter bolt return spring to cycle lighter loads. Less resistence to the bolt moving to the rear allows it to cycle with less energetic loads. The down side is less energy moving the bolt back into battery which can just as easily cause problems in a semi-auto shotgun.
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JP, SJC Titan, Miculek, Armalite. All work very well. Buy based on looks or cost, wichever is more important to you.
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My gun makes major with a 165gr Blue Bullet, 5.2grs of N320 @ 1.195". 6" 2011 type.
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I can see this clearly with my Vortex Razor. Never noticed it when shooting. As Jesse said, it's a good thing.
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What are "splits"? Who is James Neth and David Casanova? Is P.E. Kelley a professional Engineer? Is that what the P.E. is for? Now at least Dan I can understand.
Wasn't Casanova the villain in The Mystery Men?
Comfortech Stock on a VersaMax
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The recoil on a VM is pretty soft, I don't know if a comfortech stock would lessen it much. My first question would be, how tall is she? Unless she's 6-2 the lop was probably way to long for her. Shorten the stock an inch (or two) and I bet she would find it perfect. I'm 5-11 and I had to swap out to the shorter Remington pad that comes on the Versamax Sportsman model to get the lop where I needed it.