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John Galt Speaking.
Keep in mind, inertia driven guns (like the Benelli) will have a little more recoil than a gas gun (like the FN.) The FN is a really fast-shooting gun with light recoil, but you have to keep them clean.
Keep in mind, inertia driven guns (like the Benelli) will have a little more recoil than a gas gun (like the FN.) The FN is a really fast-shooting gun with light recoil, but you have to keep them clean.
I bought a FN SLP for 3-gun. It is a great shotgun. But the comb is too high for me and the SLP doesn't ship with any shims to change the drop of the stock. My sore cheek and jaw convinced me to look for an alternative. I looked at the JP 930 as a replacement, but I ended up taking my Benelli SBE that I use for bird hunting and installing a 24" barrel and Nordic Components magazine tube. Good to go. Any chance you already have a good bird gun, such as a Remington 1100-1187 or Benelli? If so, you may already have great shotgun for 3-gun competition.
At least one of the problems with the Benelli was mixing brands of 12ga ammo in the same tube. Shooting all the same brand solved it.
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It cycled the different shells fine when the tube was full of the same brand, either brand. It was strange.thinking it wasn't mixing brands that caused any problems (the gun doesn't know what came before the current round, or after it), but maybe some of the brands just didn't work. everything from walmart (fed, win) works in my sbe2, but the softer skeet-oriented loads (rio) definitely are too light to cycle it.
most matches it runs 100% easily. last match the bolt didn't go forward once during the match.
Yeah but the cost. When I decided to start shooting 3-gun I already had 2 Browning Golds in my safe, a 3.5" black Stalker and my late wife's 20 ga Gold Hunter. I found out that the barrel I needed to convert the Stalker for 3-gun cost as much as buying a brand new Mossberg 930 JMP. So I promptly sold both Brownings and got enough to buy a 930 tactical and a 930 JMP and buy all the caddies and Load2/4 stuff I needed.I bought a FN SLP for 3-gun. It is a great shotgun. But the comb is too high for me and the SLP doesn't ship with any shims to change the drop of the stock. My sore cheek and jaw convinced me to look for an alternative. I looked at the JP 930 as a replacement, but I ended up taking my Benelli SBE that I use for bird hunting and installing a 24" barrel and Nordic Components magazine tube. Good to go. Any chance you already have a good bird gun, such as a Remington 1100-1187 or Benelli? If so, you may already have great shotgun for 3-gun competition.
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I think that I would use my Saiga-12 if it were legal to run. Seems like an easy shotgun to pick for 3 gun.
Yeah but the cost. When I decided to start shooting 3-gun I already had 2 Browning Golds in my safe, a 3.5" black Stalker and my late wife's 20 ga Gold Hunter. I found out that the barrel I needed to convert the Stalker for 3-gun cost as much as buying a brand new Mossberg 930 JMP. So I promptly sold both Brownings and got enough to buy a 930 tactical and a 930 JMP and buy all the caddies and Load2/4 stuff I needed.
The only issue I had with the 930 is it did not like WWB ammo. Once I switched to Fed value packs from WM everything was fine. I also did not clean my 930 for the entire 1st season to see what it would do. Worked fine and I finally got guilty and cleaned it. Had to soak the gas ring for close to an hour to get it off the tube but it still worked. Have yet to do any mods on it. Does not need welding the carrier unless you load from caddies as doing load2/4 only needs cutting away some of the receiver around the mag opening to make loading better. Also some say you need to trim the right edge of the carrier because some guns will jam it against the side of the receiver protrusion there.
The only thing I miss from the Browning is the autoload 1st round feature. But if you tactical reload before you shoot the last round that does not matter.
Mine is a 24" 10 (9+1) round model which I have converted to 12+1 with a mag tube and extension from the Xrail guy (in case I run Open or the event allows loading more after the buzzer goes off). If they only allow 9 in the tube I remove the 2 round extension and leave the longer spring in which reduces the mag to 9.
Have you tried both full power and low recoil slugs? I find that the low recoil slugs shoot well below where full power ones shoot on my 930 JMP (1600 FPS velocity vs. 1300 FPS velocity).I run a JMP Pro with ext mag (total 13 rnds), ext bolt release, modified lifter and mag well.
Runs great for two years now.
Only issue, slugs shoot extremely high, no way to compensate other than holdover.
Only issue, slugs shoot extremely high, no way to compensate other than holdover.
I second the Mossberg JM recommendation. I have the tactical version and like it.