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Totally different target crowd. The hydrolic buffer (i had one) is heavy and serves to reduce rearward felt recoil. It is only usefull in over gassed guns and does nothing to improve lock up or quiet the spring.

Which is MagnaPorting, and like Doug said, is Open Division. So, if the rifling is back bored and the compensator slots are machined into the free area, that would be open gun? Also... If the guy is in NY, would the local match director care? That's a whole other state, playing by a whole other set of rules. They might need to adapt to the conditions to have anything really fun to do.

LMOS and light buffer. Retune the fas block and spring for reliable function and you will be about as far as you can go. Also... There is a great deal of muzzle movement you can overcome with technique. I'm curious to know if NY has defined specifically what a comp is. Does a legal description exist? The reason I ask is because you might be able to have compensator features machined into the barrel itself.

I run one in my 308. Makes the rifle lock very smooth and quiet. 16k rounds on the original spring too.

Benelli Vinci is the same. I've not bumped it by accident, but I do use it to unload the magazine.

I also prefer load 2 and I still do an old fashioned caddy load when the situation calls for it. I'll take a good ole reliable 5sec reload all day, every day.

Did you try Barry White music and long slow dances?

Out of the right barrel (and the rest put together right) it will do sub-MOA, at least with good supersonic loads - within reasonable distances for its velocity You are right. With the right build, the right loads, with glass and in the right hands, sub MOA can be achieved. But from a round designed for suppressed SBR's who cares? If you really wanted a rifle for precision shooting at distance, 300aac is the wrong choice. For what the round was designed for, 2moa is plenty accurate. The barrel twist in most 300 barrels is wrong for the fast stuff, you might want to reach out with and the subsonics have such a wicked arc, they are the way wrong choice for targets any further than 150-200yds.

Since 300aac is not really a precision round, the tumbler will take off enough for what you are doing. The edge will round off enough to not scratch up the ogive while seating. I only trim and debur my long range stuff for that extra half MOA.

Since 300aac is not really a precision round, the tumbler will take off enough for what you are doing. The edge will round off enough to not scratch up the ogive while seating. I only trim and debur my long range stuff for that extra half MOA.

Now the gun I have never gotten to handle and have always been curious about is the Benelli M3.

Nova isn't perfect, but still the best choice out there. Believe me... When a better pump comes along I'll be all over it. P350 throws live shells out the ejection port and SXP can't be opened up for load two or quads. M500's and 870's just simply aren't reliable enough. I'm waiting to see what Pat has to say about the P3000. Only pump I enjoy shooting more than my SN is the Browning BPS. Not worth spending $700 to see if it will work for 3gun. As to the complaints... The safety is only an issue because people like to gripe about it. Never slowed me down. The short stroke a practice thing. You will short stroke a 3" gun too. The polymer reciever has steel plates imbedded. They can be squeezed back down... but I have about 18k through my SN (both light target and heavy hunting loads) and not experienced the receiver flex issue. Certainly room for improvement, but it gets the job done pretty well. I can help you set yours up to minimize the negatives.

If you grease the slides and barrel feet and use a very high quality oil on the barrel and locking lugs, you should see about 100k before accuracy starts to noticably drop off. The barrel is what starts to go, so a well fit replacement should get it right back in the game.

Pick the one that gives you a chubby and hit the range.

Damn the fog and rain... Best HeMan Nats yet! Thank you JJ and Denise for all of your hard work! The stages were awesome, and the challenges aplenty. Nothing better than a weekend at the Whittington Center with good friends.