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    Adams/Voodoo barrels

    in Rifle - Technical

    Posted

    Mine functions just fine with a full weight carrier, carbine buffer and standard spring after getting the gas block adjusted correctly. At first I was having all kinds of problems with short stroking with the gas wide open. Pulled the gas block and going by the carbon marking on the barrel determined the gas block was too far rearward. This was the first time in quite a while I'd seen a barrel/GB combo that I wasn't able to just run the GB all the way back to the step in the barrel and have it run just fine. Moved the GB out just a touch towards the muzzle and it ran like a top. As far as accuracy goes mine seams to shoot right about MOA with a 1-4x optic and 55gr FMJ handloads. I'm in the process of doing a complete write up on the build, but am still testing and tweaking on it. I did run it through one local match and didn't have a single issue.

    Had a Slam Fire

    in Rifle - Technical

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    MickB, NOTHING is wrong with your rifle!

    So is the "slam fire" typically just the by product of a lightened bolt carrier and increased bolt velocity. I've never had this happen in a dozen or so rifles and I have no idea how many thousands rounds, but I've never used anything but full weight carriers. I load all my ammo with standard CCI SR primers. If this were even a remotely common occurrence in the 55 years the weapon has been in service, one would think there would have been a design change along the way. Not saying it can't or hasn't happened, because obviously it has happened to you, but has it ever happened with a standard weight carrier where there weren't other potential issues with the rifle.

    Had a Slam Fire

    in Rifle - Technical

    Posted

    Are you sure the trigger is functioning properly and the hammer didn't follow the bolt down?

    When I was reading the build this caught my attention "JP trigger with bobbed GI hammer."

    Which in itself is fine......... if the trigger and disconnector are adjusted properly. With the JP trigger the disconnector needs to be hand fit. It doesn't too many extra swipes on the stone to have an unsafe trigger.

    That said a properly set up JP trigger is still the best you can get.

    TACCOM Duelin Dueces

    in Multi-gun Gear & Accessories

    Posted · Edited by Shooter115

    Since I started shooting 3gun 3 years ago I've been using the Taccom Duaload caddies and they've served me well. They were affordable, pretty much bombproof and simple enough for an average shooter like me to use without any practice. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of guys on the forum like me that just aren't able to make the time to practice much, if at all. I've got a 50hr a week job, a 5 acre place out in the country to maintain, a wife to keep happy and a 2 year old boy to keep entertained. Throw in my other hobbies and shooting disciplines and that really doesn't leave me any time for practice. In fact the only live fire shotgun practice I've done in over a year was 10 slugs just to check my POI prior to the Nordic Shotgun Championship.

    Last year I started seeing a bunch of my buddy’s just tearing up reloads with the TACCOM Qualoads and thought "Man I gotta do this to keep up". Well in truth without applying any real practice I never got good with them. The risk was beyond the reward, even when things actually went well. And yes it was frustrating, but I only have myself to blame. The spoils go to those that put in the work. So I just kept going back to my Dualoads and they were reliable for me even when I hadn't touched them for several months. So that's where I stayed. The biggest set-back with the Dualoads is they take up a lot of real-estate on the belt. I could only get 16 shells on my belt with my normal 3gun set up, which for about 99% of the 3 gun stages I've seen, 16 on the belt is all you'll ever need.

    Not too long ago I saw TACCOM come out with a new system that would let me get about twice as many shells on the belt in the same real-estate, so I ordered a 3 of the Duelin Dueces loaders just a week prior to the Nordic Shotgun match.

    First thing I noticed trying them out is that I was upsetting the next row of shells some of the time just because I was used to wrapping so much of my fingers under the shells using the Dualoads. Since I was so close to grabbing 4 by accident I decided to take another run at quads. Holy Crap…..Success on my first attempt! After a few more tries, I rotated the caddies so the shells are almost parallel with my belt line. Now with the way the shells come out at an angle it allowed me to basically just grab four shells and pull straight up on them. When I pull the shells straight up, the bottom row of shells helps support the top row, keeping everything perfectly lined up as they go into your hand. I believe this is the key to me having such good luck loading quads with these new caddies. The trouble I was having with other quad load system was that if I didn't get a perfect grab on the shells (because I suck and don’t practice) they would come out wonky and it was a fricken yard sale. With these, everything comes out straight, therefore goes in the gun straight.

    Hit the Nordic Tactical Shotgun Championship a few days later with maybe a total of an hour practice on my new caddies and a confidence level that was a little less than stellar. It actually went OK, I only had one major screw up with my loads on the duck tower stage (it was Muck’s fault, he jinxed me), other than that things pretty well as far as loading goes. Last Sunday hit a MN3Gun Group club match and went through the whole match without a single bobble. They do a great job retaining shells too, I don’t think I’ve lost a single shell since I started using them.

    Prior to getting these, I had seen a post somewhere (maybe Facebook) in which Tim talked about the angle. At the time I really didn’t give it any thought. I just wanted a caddie that held more rounds in a smaller package. Well there definitely is a difference between these and every other caddy I’ve tried and right now I can honestly say that I really love my new TACCOM Duelin Dueces.

    I don't know how the military does it with the .308

    in Precision Rifle

    Posted

    If you want to get REALLY crazy you can weigh all casings and throw out those that are outside your parameters, measure concentricity using gauges from sinclair and toss those also that do not conform roll projectiles and toss non concentric ones as well as weigh each one to get exact weights, neck turn, and only neck size.

    Or you could figure out the time you spent doing all that and then figure out a $ figure for that time and see if it still saves you $ over what it costs for factory match ammo.

    Are you under the impression that any ammo manufacture does this with their "Match" ammo?

    Dedicated 22 LR upper: light strikes

    in Rifle - Technical

    Posted

    When I put mine together I had to do quite a bit of work on the feed ramp / chamber mouth to get it running right. The edges were so sharp that it was shaving the bullets as they were feeding. Results were poor function and accuracy. Once I cleaned up the feed ramp and broke the sharp edge on the chamber mouth she runs like a dream with even the cheapest bulk ammo.

    Dedicated 22 LR upper: light strikes

    in Rifle - Technical

    Posted

    I'm thinking for one reason or another your bolt is sitting back too far in the upper and the hammer is barely hitting the firing pin. Leading me to believe something is out of spec, incorrectly assembled or it's failing to go fully into battery.

    I won't be home till later tonight, but if you need me to mic some parts for you let me know. I have basically the same upper you do and with a little work on the feed ramps it runs like a Swiss watch.

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