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  1. I am bumping a REALLY old thread hoping to get some more info from Kurtm. :-) My nordic bolt and barrel are below, from a complete factory Nordic rifle. Now, you stated anything with a square bolt is GEN1, as mine is, but I see differences between mine and Jesse's. My "nub" on top for the charging handle is machined off smaller, my bolt appears to be lightened more, and my ejector is definitely part of the upper receiver, bolted in. I also notice my hammer nug that cocks it back is not ramped like Jesse's, but 90 degrees. So I am curious is this a newer "Gen 1" or older than Jesse's... I was considering ramping my bolt just a little bit, since I can detect some wear here. Any advice for or against? I am using a RRA 2-stage in this setup and every runs 100% flawlessly. Another question - what are the extra cutout's on the barrel extension for? These are unused. Were these for the barrel extension mounted ejector that mine doesn't have? And lastly - is there any way to get an Ambi charging handle on these Gen1's, or run a standard CH? Does the new Gen 3 RB model use a standard CH?
  2. I ran the PRI, then Miculek, and now run a Titan. Honestly, as the shooter, I cannot tell the difference in concussion, especially not while shooting a course of fire. NO good brake is fun to sit next to. But as the shooter, they all feel the same to me. I find the Titan handles muzzle movement the best out of the three above, so I stuck with it. I have the other two on other rifles now.
  3. JP supports 3gun like nobody else - they get my money. They also have been making and tuning this stuff longer than anyone. I had trouble with a Young carrier working with Pmag 40's. Switched to the JP and problem is gone.
  4. I found a piece of nylon the same size and replaced a weight, been running that for years. Zero issues.
  5. WOA have a very large gas port. Nordics are on the minimum sized. If you are going to run adjustable gas then it wont matter, but if not, the Nordic will be softer shooting. I owned two WOA barrels and they shot lights out with 77gr SMK's but both HATED 69SMK's and 55gr hot M193. I could handload 55gr with good powder and slower and they shot them well. I switched to an 18" JP barrel and am happier.
  6. I found the issue guys. It has nothing to do with the TACCOM +5's. It is a tolerance stacking problem, caused by two things - my Young Machine superlight carrier, and a change in the PMAG design. Older Gen M2 PMAGS don't exhibit the issue. These PMAG 40's have a space between feedlips of .425" to .430". My PMAG Gen M2 and all my USGI mags have a space between feedlips of .450" or greater. What I found, is using the PMAG 40, there is MUCH more resistance seating on a closed bolt, even with an EMPTY magazine. The feedlips are rammed into the underside of the carrier into the feelip cut-out channels. With an empty magazine, there was a lot of resistance which was slowing down the bolt bigtime. If I cycled the bolt slowly on an empty mag, the PMAG 40 would even hang up the carrier and it would stop. I went and grabbed a BCM carrier (about as milspec as you can get) as this problem was non-existent. With the young manufacturing carrier, and a new PMAG 40, I can even see the carrier shaving plastic from the feedlips. I have been running this carrier since summer of 2011 through several seasons of 3gun without a single hiccup of any kind. So, the new PMAG's are definitely measurably different on the feedlips, but I tried the PMAG40 body (no follower or spring) in 6 other milspec rifles, and cant replicate the drag except for one, which is not as pronounced and is a WMD nickel boron carrier. Looks like I will be buying that JP LMOS carrier after all. I assume that is what 90% of you guys are running without issue on the PMAG 40's?
  7. Standard forged lower (believe it is a Rock River, would have to check) and been running this lower for many years. Young super light carrier, lightend rifle buffer, sprinco spring, Syrac adjustable gas block. Been running 100% since the day she was put together. I'll see if I can repro.... i'm sure hoping its a fluke. Good to hear it isn't common.
  8. Factory M193. 2.230" to 2.240" Been shooting this lot of ammo for many years, I bought a ton. No binding when working follower, but it is a bit "rougher" feeling on all my PMAG40's than on my Gen 2 30 round PMAGS. Nothing significant, and I cannot get it to hang up loading and unloading it. The bullets just rise up slowly.
  9. I had my first mag related failure on the timer in a match this weekend. Had to dump it go to backup mag. It was a PMAG 40 with a taccom +5, using the factory PMAG40 spring. It was bang - click - rack - bang - click - rack. Sometimes I'd get two bangs before click. It just wouldn't feed the cartridges up fast enough, and my bolt just went home on an empty chamber. The spring on a Nordic 48 rounder is about 1" longer, but the 3 round higher capacity and length makes the two springs about equal. Fluke?
  10. Oh Gawd.... not MORE shotgun that I suck at. If you are going to add more shotgun - simply add it as an "all 3 guns stage". One of the cool things about the last Surefire match, was the "your choice" factor... where you could choose between shotgun and pistol depending on what you felt you were better at.
  11. Yes, another shell was placed on the lifter upon pulling the trigger. I replaced the factory spring with the Wolff +25% because in almost every thread I read about Benelli Click, this was the recommended course of action and resolved a lot of user complaints. I only replaced one thing. The spring. Even with the Wolff+25% spring, the shotgun still cycled my light loads (Wal-Mart Winchester universal) just fine, so you think using a stronger spring is a problem?
  12. My Benny Benelli M1 runs anything I feed it, 100%. I picked up a used Benelli SBE2 Comfortech in camo recently. Guy of course said it ran perfectly. I took it to the skeet range and could not get through 10 shells without a failure. (love those liars) The failures were all "Benelli Click" where the shell is not fed fully into the chamber, the bolt is 98% closed but is not rotated into locked position. When you pull the trigger, you hear a "click" as the hammer strikes the back of the bolt, the bolt finishes final rotation into locked position, but there is not enough energy to fire the shell, and the primer has the look of a "light strike" indentation. From my reading this failure plagues some benelli shotguns, and can happen on any rotating bolt design. I took it home, disassembled, and noticed a couple things: 1. The action was WAY, WAY overlubed with what looked like transmission fluid. It was drenched everywhere. The action spring/tube was full of fluid. I cleaned and dried everything, then lightly lubricated with CLP. 2. The action spring "felt" weak. Weaker than my M1 for sure. I replaced it with a Wolff +25% extra power recoil spring. It feels a LOT stiffer. Took it back to the skeet range, and fired 4 boxes of shells though it. This time, only experienced ONE "Benelli Click" which had all the identical symptoms. This was on the 80th shell or so. So huge improvement, but I am not happy even with 1% failure. Is there anything else that can be done to reduce this?
  13. They added individual "stage points" to "your scores" shooter number track near the end of the second day. The ONLY thing missing IMHO is a stage by stage leaderboard. This would be just as relevant as tracking individual places and leaderboards as the match develops. If you burn down a stage or take the stage win, it is nice to keep up with who has and hasn't shot it yet, and how others did in reference to your position. The numbers are already being calculated for stage points, so I don't see why this would be a difficult addition.
  14. I really liked the choice thing, more than I thought I would at first. It added a whole new level of stress, deciding what to do. I also like the running between stages! Adding a degree of athleticism and then forcing a long distance shot or tougher pistol shot also was very welcomed. Even stage 12 (which looked overly basic at first) was a BLAST to shoot, and saw some seasoned shooters still struggle on it.
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