Which MOA extension for my 10 + 1 M3K FS?

[Pinkowitz]

Gotten pretty adept at quad loading with the stock port during quarantine. This will be my first 3 gun season, so I can't rely on experience to answer the question - should I get the +2, +3, or +4?

 

With any of those extensions installed the gun won't fit in my bag or hard case, so what reason is there not to get the +4? It's not really much more unwieldy than the +2 and it would seem to give a lot more flexibility in stage planning.

 

What are the gotchas I'm not aware of with the longer tube? Is there any reason other than cosmetic to keep it shorter with the +2? TIA for the info!

[Steve133]

I don't think that there are too many "gotchas" aside from being generally unwieldy and cumbersome. Like you said, you're probably going to have to take any extension off to fit the thing in a case.

 

That said, there's not really much reason to go any longer than the +2. I bought an extension that gave me a total capacity of 9, just because that was division capacity, and immediately realized that it would be useful to be able to load more than that on the clock. I bought a +4 extension to that extension (13 total) so that I could load 4 on the buzzer in a cruiser-ready start. Not only have I never done that, but I have never actually loaded that tube all the way up to capacity ever.

 

My next shotgun was a 10-round monotube with a +2, but was otherwise identical to the first one; even the relatively minor difference between a 12 round tube and a 13 round tube is noticeable. The 13-rounder is just a little harder to get in and out of barrels or around barricades. Put another way, you asked if there's much reason not to have those two extra rounds, and the answer there is a very soft "no", since being a little more cumbersome isn't exactly the end of the world. However, if you ask the same thing from the opposite direction - i.e., "is there any strong reason to have a +4 instead of a +2" - then the answer is also "no".