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  1. Vlad
    The "dead" trigger is not so much an issue with not cycling but an issue with the bolt not going fully into battery, and the hammer fall just drives all the way into battery not does not set off the primer. As far as I can tell this is an issue with the out of round shells and the energy behind the bolt to drive them into battery. For me, this is solved running 3dram loads and specifically NOT Federal or other 6 star crimp shells which are often slightly not round, specially for cheap shells. I find that running 3dram GunClub ammo has completely made this go away for me.
  2. Vlad
    Mine is not particularly tight either, requires gently finger pressure to remove. Doesn't seem to cause any problems.
  3. Vlad
    I don't think anyone ever sang the praises of the M2000 model, so it seems this may be the wrong thread?
  4. Vlad
    Are you sure? Are you sure someone didn't put the wrong barrel in the wrong gun? I assume if someone put a pump gun barrel in a semiauto, things might break. That barrel in your pictures looks like no 3000 barrel I ever seen, and the broken lower lugs are the least of your problem, as it seems to have "broken" the entire 2-3" of hood, ejector, bolt raceway, etc and done so in a very specific way and re-applied bluing it itself. The silver bit in the lower left of this picture:
  5. Vlad
    That's interesting, thanx
  6. Vlad
    I've had similar issues with federal cheapo ammo, lot of bolt out of battery being driven down by the hammer to an annoying click. I've never had that issue (so far) with Remington GunClub or their next grade up (Remington Clay and Field?) Having looked at some of the Federal shells that I had to eject, I'd say current federal ammo is trash, some had plastic run over the "brass", some the base is all sorts of uneven and chewed up, for some the crimp is slightly bulging, etc. It may be that the Stoeger chamber is less forgiving of this sort of thing or maybe other people are having issues too and not complaining as much, but changing ammo has solved the issue for me (so far)
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    I think that is when they start registration.
  8. Vlad
    has anyone ever found a source of M3000 recoil springs?
  9. Vlad
    are you doing pre-registration for these, or just show up and register at the match?
  10. Vlad
    Personally I'll wait until the is a SKU for a 5" without the thumb safety and hopefully without the completely pointless loaded chamber indicator.
  11. Vlad
    I don't try to guess anything about army arms trials. I think they have a lot more to do with politics and grandstanding then actually buying a gun. Objectively, the whole thing is a waste of time an money which will probably end up with buying Glock 19s as some branches are already doing. Think of it this way, Inifinity could have put hand made open gun priced at $1000 on the table in those trials and odds are it would have lost, and we would probably not try to guess why, it seems to me these sort of army trials are not about determining the best gun, but the best gun to buy for the army when performance is just one of the criteria.
  12. Vlad
    Personally I'm probably buying one seeing how after 8 years with the old one I have very little complains. blah blah trigger sucks .. of course it does, which gun do we NOT screw around with the trigger to make it better? People buy $2000 STI's and then pay someone to "fix" the trigger, as long as I can throw in $100 of apex parts I don't really care. Some guns had accuracy problems, others did not, again, after market barrels are a thing, your millage may very. I'm not really defending the gun or Smith, they can certainly use to get their act together on some things, I'm just saying that perspective is a thing one should have when you are looking at a $450 gun NOT designed for competition as its primary goal.
  13. Vlad
    My remaining questions are 1) Will it fit APEX parts or is the the trigger sufficiently different that I can't throw in the better parts? 2) Can you get 5" without the loaded chamber indicator? 3) What in the world is that button in front of the slide release for?
  14. Vlad
    Hi Mark, I managed to do that all of twice, but I'm pretty sure in every case I had accidentally hit the bolt release button so in my case I'd call it user error. On a side note, I have a big belated thank your for Mark and Becky. At BRM3G I managed to break my ejector in my Stoeger and after running into the Yackley's and asking if they had a spare, they ended up ripping out a part out of their spare gun and we did redneck gunsmithing in the parking lot with completely inappropriate tools but got be back to functional. So a big thanks to Yackley clan
  15. Vlad
    Yes but $450 for a slide assembly I might as well buy a new gun and get a bag of other spare parts S&W won't sell me .. plus you know .. a whole gun.
  16. Vlad
    Yep, I keep throwing money at my screen but no one seems to make a 5" slide I can buy short of buying a whole gun from S&W. Randy sure know better then me what he can sell, but I would think the market for 6" slide would be a lot smaller then people who want to build a 5" top end for their 4.25" guns or want to lighten one or whatever/
  17. Vlad
    the low recoil 7/8oz seem to work for me and almost everyone else.
  18. Vlad
    Thanx, I've ended up doing lots of measuring and shopping around for the "right" size brass arbor shims. I think I now have it figured out, but I'll go out this weekend to see if it made a difference, positive or otherwise
  19. Vlad
    Has anyone shimmed their hammer and how? It seems to me that to me like there is a lot of slop between the hammer pin and the hammer, allowing for quite a bit of left to right play. Recently I've been getting some failure to fire or weak strikes and I can see some pinning on the sides of the hammer so I'm suspecting that it occasionally does not hit the firing pin straight on. I've been thinking to either find some thin washer/shims to apply to either side of the hammer or maybe even somehow sleeve the pin for a better fit. I think the shims would be the better idea so I was wondering if someone has already figured out an appropriate set of commercially available shims before I go hunting for some or try to make my own.
  20. Vlad
    This is like the third video of stage 6 where the hatch was left opened by the previous shooter. Did they change that mid match? When we shot it we had to close the hatch before coming down from the house.
  21. Vlad
    I don't shoot out west, but somehow at every major on the east coast it seems the MD manages to find places to put out 300+ targets.
  22. Vlad
    That is because George (on the timer) is one of the best people I know. He wants everyone to do well, and tries to make sure he gives New Jersey a good name. As for Jim's skirt .. I just rather I didn't see that
  23. Vlad
    As usual great staff and great stages, but I really wish we didn't do the 5/3/2 thing. Day one felt rushed, day 3 seemed out of sync. Also, it would be really nice if we didn't start shooting long range stages at 7am when the targets are not visible, we were done with that rotation by 10:40, it would have been nice to have started an hour later.
  24. Vlad
    Disclaimer: I am far from an authority on shotguns. From the 1000ft view the biggest differences in function between the two is that location of the recoils system and the shell catch arrangement. The Benelli has the main spring in the stock behind the bolt, the M3k has it around the mag tube, forward of the bolt. The inertia system works the same on both, it is just were you place the spring that returns the bolt into battery. I'm not smart enough to say which one is better. The benelli way probably is more reliable as it stays cleaner and last friction, the M3k way just lets you have shorter stocks. The Benelli's shell catch is one piece, the Stoeger is two piece. I like the two piece one for the sake of easy unloading. Benelli's surely seem better made, but I'm not sure that means the the Stoeger are not made well enough. In my experience I've seen then same number of failures for both guns. My M3000 runs the same ammo Benelli's do and chokes on the same ammo that Benelli's do.
  25. Vlad
    I find this thread quite bizarre. Usually on BE when people look at technique and practice and ways to be gooder every advantage is thought out, video analysis of the top shooters is done with creepy levels of obsession over slightness differences of foot placement or grip minutia. Yet in this thread, while as far as I can tell everyone winning at modern 3gun is quad loading, I see an argument that it is ok to go slower and not ues the winning technique because .. oh I don't know why, I guess because history/situational arguments/personal biases/sticky hands/tactical considerations/whatever. Is quad loading a necessity? Of course not, you don't need to win, place higher, or even shoot a shotgun. But to my mind when the people winning matches prefer that technique I would say that is hint. Only you can decide what to practice to get the most returns from your time dryfiring or on the range, perhaps the benefits of quad loading are not high enough for someone who could benefit more from practicing something else but at some point I think it will come about to mattering. Sure not missing is more important, but some matches are being won by a few seconds, so shaving those couple of seconds loading seems to matter at that level. Then again, I struggle to hit the dirt with a shotgun so what do I know.
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