TonytheTiger

I don't do the Tac Games but I know some guys that do. My understanding is that you need to make every shot count, but the accuracy requirements are very generous. I'm told that a 3 MOA rifle will be fine.

What kind of competition?

90% of a rifles accuracy comes from the barrel (and ammo of course, but we're talking about the gun part of the equation I assume) and the other 10% probably comes from a combination of everything else being tight, assembled properly and all the parts fitting well. If the bolt is in spec and headspaced properly it should have no effect on accuracy, negative or otherwise. You could handload and tune ammo to your PSA barrel and you might find it to be spectacularly accurate. Or you might not. A quality barrel isn't a guarantee of great accuracy but it stacks the deck in your favor and is more likely to shoot with a variety of loads rather than needing a specially tuned one. But 100% of the burden of getting an AR to shoot to its potential is on the shooter. Since you said you're a newbie, it's very likely your technique is leaving a lot of performance on the table. AR's require very good fundamentals to shoot consistently small groups.

What's a Ruger LCP2? Double action only? I don't even know. There are few things in the world I care less about than my carry gun, providing it works and hits where I point. And it does that, so I go back to not caring about it.

Bummer. I suppose this is the opposite of a match announcement.

True story. I saw a lot of 10-12" plates beyond 60 yards in the last season of 3 gun. I hate to think about where I would have to hold if I zeroed with sight picture #1 at close range and #3 would obscure the target completely.

On my first Hypertap I drilled the holes out and tapped them for plugs, effectively copying the Answer design. I wanted to be able to test and reverse any changes I made. My next Hypertap I just drilled them out since I knew what I wanted at that point.

I've seen plenty out there but users usually fall into the new guy or become more proficient with duty gear categories.

Shoot left handed. It'll recoil to the left. Shoot upside down and it'll go down. The muzzle always travels in the direction of least resistance, and your body, hold on the rifle and physics determine what direction that is.

I can't spend five minutes at a match without hearing constant Honcho horror stories from friends, former owners and complete strangers. Then we get to the CS. I've seen screenshots of how that goes. Wouldn't give the company a penny just based on that. Having shot one, they are very nice. And very oily. And in the hands of many shooters, very prone to doubling.

I suppose I should clarify when I say "no concussion" I mean no concussion to the shooter. I don't really care what happens to the side of me. Although the Hypertap is quite a bit less awful when shooting inside tunnels and next to walls and such than the Apollo also.

Just goes to show our setups, techniques and bodies are all different. I find the Hypertap to be minimally conclusive, even compared to flat baffled brakes.

Yeah, kinda surprising, but the more brakes I test the more I think a bowl shaped baffle surface is more effective at capturing gasses than the aggressively back-angled but flat baffle surfaces of brakes like the Apollo.

The TTI mags have no provision for coupling, are smooth and slippery on the bottom, and the angle isn't great for monopodding. I use the TTI extensions on my primary mags, just not if I see myself going prone on a stage. The TF bases are a better shape and have an aggressive texture that really grips well on almost any surface.

Is that who's making those? I've been tempted to grab them at the sale prices I've seen.

No experience with the new Titan. Own the Hypertap and Apollo Max, prefer the Hypertap. Smaller, slightly less recoil, tunable and way less blast. But I also have the Unrivaled brake. Very tunable and right with the Hypertap in recoil reduction and blast, but way bigger/heavier. All of the above are more effective than the last generation brakes, of which I have many, but only if you have a keen sense for such things. 99% of shooters I hand my rifles to can't tell any difference. The M4-72's rate very high in effectiveness, but it's also the only brake I've taken out of service and probably won't ever use again. And I'm not blast sensitive, it's just that horrible.

If the bullet is running into the rifling you'll see evidence of it on the bullet. The Amax is a pretty secant ogive so you typically don't have trouble hitting lands unless loaded really long. More likely is that the shoulder isn't bumped back far enough. You'll have to compare shoulder locations. You could also black marker the whole case and see if it shows where the stickiness is happening.

Pmags with the Taylor Freelance extension are great. Bonus points if you couple two mags together.

I had whichever one costs about $100 for a while. It's better than mil spec but I sold it because $150 triggers are way better.

No. That's not how AR barrels work. Assuming the bolt is in spec about all you can do is hand turn a chamber reamer to your desired headspace. I've done it on a couple tight chambered AR15 barrels that needed to be able to eat any and all ammo. Definitely rule out gas and ammo issues before this though.

Definitely sounds like a headspace/chamber issue or improperly sized ammo problem then.

I'd start with gas block alignment then headspace. Also, does an unfired round eject easily. Edit: just refreshed and saw more info in the posts after the OP. Sounds like you're headed in the right direction.

Modified or something similar has been pretty common at matches around me this last season. It's off to a slow start but I'm sure it'll catch on. It hasn't meaningfully changed the scores of those participating from where they would normally place in TO. I initially had a negative opinion of it, for no real reason other than the standard dislike of change and the "watering down" of divisions. A year later and I have a neutral opinion. I'm glad they didn't shoehorn dots into TO. If it saves 3 gun from extinction great. I don't see that happening.

The 6-24x scope in the same product line is far superior. When on a budget it's best to avoid high magnification.

Yes and no. A purpose built rifle or 3 second quads will help. As in, help you get from an upper mid packer to an 80 percenter. Most of the new guys I RO are forgetting half the targets and going to war mag dumping on 12" plates at 100 yards. They don't need any special equipment yet. They get discouraged by this and somehow their takeaway is usually to blame all their failures on not having Honcho money or not having a Dissident. Like I said, the desire to get better by self analysis is missing with the new crowd.