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All I did to mine was open up the loading port and put the +7 Nordic tube on and it ran flawlessly in a 2 gun match this past weekend. No Benelli parts added. I'm VERY happy!

The idea popped into my head this week while practicing that it's a lot like playing in a marching band.

It's at least useful having the M3K model pictures as a reference point for opening regular 3000's loading ports. I went slow with a file and sandpaper for mine and it took FOREVER but wanted to do it conservatively to not brick it. Were it not for online reference materials I'd have had no idea how far was far enough without going too far.

How well would SEAL 1 or Froglube work for rust prevention, or am I just better off with regular oil?

Just out of curiosity, where are M3k's prone to rusting? I just got mine and took it out today and want to avoid this as much as possible.

Thank you so much! My club is just about to start with USPSA and this is very helpful.

Many brands of 5.56 brass these days are crimped, not just Lake City. It's really interesting to see what I find on the ground these days, and I use it all in some capacity or another--if nothing else to cut down to .300 BLK for future use.

Alright, got the TekLoks for them and it works great! Finding limited waistline space to be a bit of a limitation, but I guess it's better than health effects of being overweight.

Nice to see it finally warmed up enough to practice outside.

Now what will they do with the Fulcrum?

I'm about halfway through this amazing biography of Samuel Zemurray, the Banana King. Has anyone here read it? It's a classic story of business success, aggressive management, the American dream, and development of our country as we know it today. It makes me long for better days for our people, who can all learn from him. Brief synopsis: Zemurray started from nothing, came up with the idea of selling bananas that others threw away but were still useful by moving them faster, was a millionaire by age 21 around 1900 just from that, then built up a company growing where nobody else was, then sold into a megacorp to retire, but then took that over and unretired for 20 more years. Oh, and beat J.P. Morgan when he tried to put him out of business--overthrowing a government to do it. And may or may not have removed Huey Long. It's another one of those 250+ pg books you read in 3-4 days because it's just that good and you find yourself wanting to.

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can from a wise answer."

I'm strongly considering getting one for this year, either to attach to my ear protection or on a shoulder mount. If for no other reason than to show people what it is that I do, to get rid of those "Oh, I know someone who hunts" responses.

Exactly what is divisive about asking for safety and everyone acting in a sportsmanlike manner and being thankful for all we have and the sport we're able to participate in? What the heck is so wrong with people these days to where a simple and well meaning prayer, commonly accepted and understood as a practice when I grew up (and I'm only 36 so we're not talking 1950's here), is now treated if it were some kind of taboo fetish or a cockroach covered plutonium and cyanide flavored ice cream sundae? I know that the shooting community is diverse, and I'm very thankful for that. I also would expect that if we know that what the anti gun crowd spews about guns and gun owners that our people also might have the insight and intelligence to gather that the same stereotypes against those who pray and pursue a life of faith aren't true either. Neither deserve to be treated or spoken about as both the anti gun and anti religious types (often the same people) frequently do. Similarly I expect people to be above the whole fake offended nonsense too. If we took every food someone might be allergic to off the grocery shelves and/or out of restaurants, nobody would have anything to eat!

It's played before most other sporting events, so it definitely makes sense to do so with ours. Similarly, does anyone here huddle together with fellow competitors to pray before matches? A brief giving of thanks and asking for safety and sportsmanlike behavior as a good example for others would be quite appropriate and I'd like to start doing so where I am.

I saw it a few weeks ago and concur with most folks here: a few technical bits ya notice, but largely true to the subject. Reading the book last week was also enjoyable, and it really makes me wish I could have met him. Immediately thereafter I read The Reaper, and it was VERY interesting comparing the two.

Anyone used the 195 Hornady match? I got a good price on them at my local spot today.

What I have seen a few people do with pistol powder in .223 is for short barrel loads using heavy bullets, like 77 grain. Lyman's reloading manuals list loads for the Thompson Contender to the same tune. Basically you treat it like .300 Blackout, and the people I know who are doing it are using it for suppressed SBR's, where they want to lose as little velocity as possible vs. standard loads (which by comparison suck in 10" 5.56 barrels) and burn all the powder to make them as quiet as possible with the can on. The charges are very moderate, like half or less than what you'd use of a rifle powder, and are magnum pistol powders like Lil Gun, H110, and 2400, which are slower than standard pistol powders but much, much faster than rifle powders--NOT the ones you listed. However, as others have stated, this is VERY specialized, VERY VERY specific, and comparatively NOT considered the normal thus warrants EXTRA CAUTION.

Be sure your earplugs are in well.

Upon just a couple minutes looking at it tonight, I observed a few things about it. One, the rifling seems very good as far as I can tell. I looked down the bores of rifles I know to have very few rounds through and can tell little if any difference between them and this one. No wear at the crown and no visible erosion/wear at the chamber and throat. It's quite interesting you asked about the stripper clip guide, as it appears it does have that cut into it. What it all adds up to is what the shop guys told me: an older guy with old school tastes had it made and either never shot it as much as he thought he would and/or had to quit and this was his 3rd rifle of the same, maybe the 2nd barrel on this one gun itself. I'll definitely see what I can get out of it with some 190, 195, and 210's with 4064 and 4350, maybe Superformance too. Zero at 300 yards I guess, as the sources I read say long range loads don't settle into stable accuracy until that--or is that wrong?

I wonder if anyone loads 7.62x39 with 200+ grain bullets to do subsonic rounds.

My wife made an interesting observation today which requires attention. We're living in a small town house which my shop room is in the basement. I have a fairly large work bench to which my press is mounted. While reasonably good overall one downside is that the top surface of the bench is plywood which flexes somewhat. If I'm doing something that takes any appreciable amount of force met with resistance, most notably popping out crimped primers or sizing 9mm brass, it reverberates up through the wall from the basement and can be heard in our bedroom upstairs so she tells me. Do any of you have a particular damping material or mechanism to prevent this? I hate that so many places these days are built cheaply with thin walls, but that's what I've got to work with right now.

Has anyone come up with loads for the 100 grain Xtreme plated RNFP?

OK folks, I need to borrow some brains here. I tripped across a steal of a deal in my local shop this week. I was looking to buy a used 700 to build on for a precision gun, the less expensive the better, and in left handed. What I ended up finding was one someone had already built, though with some different preferences (had 3 sight bases on the barrel, I guess for irons, and internal mag instead of detachable box), and less desirable to many people because it's chambered in .30-06 instead of something more fashionable like .300 Win Mag, .308, or 6.5-284. However, I'm not going to change the barrel because it's a Hart stainless 26" (or 28"...didn't measure yet) heavy contour 1 in 10" which is exactly what I would have picked. It would cost me almost twice as much to swap out as I paid for the whole thing. Yes, that's right, I got the whole rifle lacking only a scope base for $350 out the door. (Oh yeah, minus optic...but that's a given.) So, currently lacking another 600+ yard gun right now, I'm looking to go with this as it gets me up and running cheaply in F-class and possibly other stuff, and definitely teaching myself to do more. I'm going to thread the muzzle to be able to run my can on it because I VASTLY prefer suppressed when shooting anything with a substantial blast to it. Now what I need to figure out is what kind of loads I'm going to feed this thing. As I look at Hodgdon's data and Sierra, Hornady, Berger, and Nosler's bullets I see a lot of potential here, but not much really to go on other than just pick a powder, pick some bullets, burn some, and see how it goes. Researching other sites yields a lot of "yeah, but .308 and .300 Win are more accurate because 06 is a long skinny case...", but I don't think I currently have the skill level to outshoot its theoretical capabilities, and by the time I will it'll be time to swap the barrels anyway, right? I'm definitely thinking 180-210 grain stuff to take advantage of higher BC's and maybe to crowd some of that powder space to lessen that whole theoretical shortcoming of a long powder column. I know a lot of guys run 175's in .308 but that's said to be because longer bullets wouldn't have the case capacity which with this I have. Whatcha think, guys? Any concerns about powder burn rate with the can on it, or at that length should I be good with everything? Also, I will probably put it in a chassis at some point--will that significantly change what loads it likes, negating load tuning done prior to the change, or just POI shift?

Upon reading all of the above plus more here and elsewhere, looks like I'll be going with at least one Double Duelin' and possibly one triple as well. Does anyone here run the Deulin' Deuces on a belt other than the Safariland, i.e. one that doesn't require me shelling out for each lego piece to mount every single thing? This blank check I'm writing for the upcoming season to add shotgun is getting a little bigger than I would prefer.