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I treat psa in stock stuff as 4-6 weeks out and out of stock stuff as never existing. Also, kind of like optics planet despite ordering from them, I never recommend them to people who expect a store to behave like a store.

It's a 20" barrel with a rifle length gas tube. You can probably run everything from a full weight m-16 style carrier to a lightened carrier and have it run. It's just a question of how violently it will cycle. Right now it is looking like you can't be too picky about what. right now joe bobs says they have spikes BCGs in stock for $140, whihc are good. I'd snag that. Every place else I looked was out of stock of anything but overpriced stuff or esoteric lightened/adjustable stuff that is ! $240+

Well from my experience, you only need staff so you can close the park. From my perspective, these parks are now open 24-7. The reality is NJ is very much out of money. Having seen the numbers from March, there was NO way they made it to the end of fiscal year without hitting zero, and revenues won't hold us until a bond can be floated. It's going to be rough fiscally for the state government. They didn't know how to operate within the constraints of revenue before, and they sure as heck don't now.

Based on various articles and forum griping, I do believe all existing stock of popular calibers is GONE and we now in the phase where you are catching what you can as production capacity delivery what it can. Per usual Primers are becoming the pain point as they are the least automated element of a cartridge.

There are literally tons of tree clearing efforts all over the state. Up in the Morristown area there are huge swaths where they are tagging and nuking anything withing 3 feet of the roadway. It was pretty active prior to this covid-19 stuff. Part of the problem is tree trimming used to be maintenance that was done. Then they stopped. Now they don't want to do maintenance but to clear cut everything until it's jsut lawn as far as the eye can see. Lawn we don't have to water to water. So... Part of this is pretending everything is only as expensive as foreign labor dictates. We don't want to admit that owning a few road frontage trees might have an annual cost higher than a large TV.

It may not be you messing up. I got some decibullz. They are impossible to fit to my ear according to the instructions. They are most definitely geared towards the middle of the bell curve.

First to the OP. Nickle plated brass is good to go for brand new ammo. It usually costs a bit more but I have never seen it done on anything that wasn't decent quality. For remanufactured ammo.. meh. I try to avoid it. It's goal is cheap rather than quality, and that has issues many times. Remington is owned by Cerberus. REmington also has legal troubles and was run like shit. this is happening 1) because they make jack shit htat is popular and selling like hotcakes. 2) They are financially distressed. 3) CErberus does nothing but load stuff up with debt and take cash out of their business. The last one is important because if you say hey, we are restructuring to be more profitable, while making stuff that is for the next 6-12 months likely to be HIGHLY in demand, and you are likely to be buoyed up by industry peers having increased stock prices, while you SPIN that shit, get a bigger fool to come along and offer you more loans, and then you pocket the cash again.

The leadership engaged in shady shit that put the organization at peril. They need to voluntarily moot this issue by doing what needs to be done to reorg someplace that is not a bastion of gun grabbers, and eliminate the behaviors and personnel that put the organization at risk. But they won't. They will also likely lose. In part because the game is rigged, but also because all you need is a small violation to be true to lose the whole thing, and I don't think they were near clever enough to avoid making those mistakes.

It is very interesting, but I'll have to wait and see what they ACTUALLY cost, if they have decent QC, etc.

That's my point. Prices are genuinely going up. There are non asshole vendors saying that if demand somehow increases for November's fun and games that $1 a round for plinking 9mm is likely.

I think this is part of it. I think all the discussion in the past that Kennedy was the unpredictable vote was wrong and it was roberts. On top of that is not just about the 2a. It's about the precedent. The left might happily vote against the second, but what they say can come back to haunt their pet decisions. Three recent remand back to the lower courts on the Nevada church issue was created with some spite. It was a leftist win technically, but it undermines the premise at the root of roe vs Wade.

Distributor pricing is going up too. It's not just gouging. I mean heck, ctd is up to about $1.10 per round for.223.

Wait until bulk 9mm fmj is a buck a round. We have a lot of money chasing a limited supply made even more limited by supply chain disruptions.

Nere loading has 9 and 45 bullets.

Because they have gouged the shooting community hard. Think $10 pmags for $40 and $799 cases of.223. I've only seen one place get close to historical ctd asshattery this go round. Holy shit. I just went to ctd. $894 a case for pmc x-tac. $1244 for 55gr American eagle. Do yeah that's why fuck ctd.

You'll likely find a 24". If you happen to see something good with a 20-24" barrel that will be fine and don't sweat it. Just no slug barrels.

20 or 24" depending on what is easier to get for which model gun. There was hot demand for 20" barrels but it has mostly died out. First because they mostly ship with 24" ones in the popular brands and second is that in most locations, the "right" setup is with a 12 round tube. At that point the tube is longer than a 24" barrel, so why spend money trying to get a 20" barrel for something shipping with a 24. If you can get one with factory fixed sights at that length, that's really the sweet spot. The shotgun in 3 gun is stupid and entirely impractical. it's an ungainly mess that you would never try to manipulate in an interior space outside of a warehouse or a big box store. IMO it should be 18" barrels with 8 round tubes as the norm as that is a very handy package when set up right. But that's not the way things have shaken out. It's the gamiest part of the game. That being said, 18" barrels that accept chokes can be at a disadvantage at some matches. 18" cylinder bore barrels with no choke are near useless for 3 gun. I tried 18" with a choke because NJ (and 18" with a 6 round tube is not a bad setup in terms of looks or ergonomics), but outside of it being a mossberg 930 and having the associated reliability issues and problematic manual of arms, it just was sub optimal with choke selection. Where others shooitng 20-24 could put on a cylinder choke and shoot whole arrays while picking up freebies from the spread, I'd start getting donut holes in my patterns with some ammo. Shotgun isn't about what is practical or most right, it's about what is the least wrong choice for a competitive advantage. Given that, it's a place where the wisdom of the crowd is a bit more correct than typical.

Work around - don't get the real id. Do it online. Then pick a different less busy line in the form of getting a passport card. It is accepted for flights. Heck a passport might be as well if you already have one.

It all depends on the match and venue. Within 2 hours of nj, longest you might get is ~600 yards at New Holland if they put the target halfway up the berm on the longest range. Topton can't go past 200, but every match you are likely shooting at 200. Ontelaunee can go to 300. I believe York can as well. Obrpc can go slightly beyond 100 by going past the target stands into the berm and setting up catty corner. Past 450 is uncommon. For example the blue ridge in Kentucky had tons of stuff between 200 and 400, but only one 500 target. I said it earlier. You can get into the game and have a lot of fun in the local region with a dot and probably not time out. But there is a reason the lpvo dominates the sport. I can tell you 6 inch plates at ~180 with a 3moa dot ain't easy. Same plate rack with a 1-8 was cake. The sweet spot imo is either the Vortex razor HD 1-6 or the trijicon accupower 1-8. You can usually score one on sale or used $900-1100 The money is no object scope is the s&b short dot ii 1-8 cc. It packs the lighter weight best glass, real dot reticle and true 1x more with a big eye box. And a $4200 price tag.

The Bush era shortages were as bad as this or worse because the components were all going to military and police orders. They literally stopped production on.380 for a couple of years because those machines can make 9mm. Additionally that went with a run up in the price of copper and lead. Inflation adjusted, if you could get it case of 223 was like $500 at the cheap places. But yeah it's bad right now and possibly unprecedented for the demand for firearms.

For 3 gun if you don't reload, bulk pack 115gr is usually fine. There are usually 2 basic formulas for 9mm minor though. 1) 124 running fairly hot. 2) 147 running as slow as you can get away with. 2 used to be the hotness, but 1 has edged it out in recent years due to a combo of factors. First 124gr bullets moving fast tend to be most accurate for most/more guns. Second since you are usually aiming well above 125 power factor it helps you not get fucked by heavy set poppers and it is much safer of you get chronoed in uspsa. Then there's cost and volume. Coated 124 heads are cheap. More cheap means more practice. Then there is the practical. For me in my legion, there most accurate has been 124gr fmj at 137pf. It's old s&b nato pressure bulk 9. It's basically 1100 fps. That's basically what 124gr self defense loads are doing. I'm not going to go all tactical larping with practice like you fight and stuff, but having done 3 man shoots where you get stuck shooting each other's gear sometimes, the folks shooting the 124.5 pf loads had a sizeable fall off in performance even when the platform was the same vs 150+pf.40. On a personal preference level, just over minor 147 is way too slow and chuggy for me. I probably don't actually have to wait on it cycling, but I can perceive more of the cycling process and it feels like I'm waiting on it. Which, historically, does not improve my performance. Your mileage may be different.

Uspsa does multi gun as well. Which is what the obrpc matches are when they happen. We don't do them often anymore because they require more work, have higher consumables cost, and get lower attendance.

You dont need to go to a classifier match first. If you don't have your manual of arms and gun handling down well, you might want to try something with a bit less going on at once than 3 gun to get your feet wet. Steel matches have the timer and commands without a lot of guns and movement. Uspsa had most of the bits but with just a pistol.

Did not know you were running a 1301. The breda seems to be good. I was under the impression that street price on them and the m2 were close enough to be basically the same. I'm also not simply expressing an opinion but extrapolating from samples seen. If you add you i know 4 people running the Beretta and 3 of them are having issues. I was at a match this weekend where the one 1301 on the squad was having issues. Also it is a gas gun and none of them, including the 1301, seem to want to run the whole range of loads in hot and cold without making changes for the seasons. The serial number is also in a really bad spot if you want to really have the port opened up. How many 1301s do you see running with and without problems? Every squad I shoot on is usually at least 1/3 stoegers and I'm not twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to clear jams or deal with problems. Given the number of them I see at matches and the lack of problems, I have trouble believing you are rolling the dice on reliability. They'd have a reputation and people constantly discussing how to get it reliable like the 1100 and 1187 did. The only thing I have found they don't like out of the box are low recoil slugs traveling to slow. The fiocchi 1oz low recoil slugs at ~1100 fps are the only ones I know of that fit that description. The only thing literally everyone does to it is replace the factory follower because it is plastic garbage and won't play well with a tube extension. But this is not unusual for all shotguns when you put a mag extension on. And even if you were rolling the dice, get a high rate mag spring from Nordic, a benelli extractor, and a reduced power action spting from MOA and it should run everything 3 gun relevant. If super paranoid get a spare inertia spring. All easily installed diy, and will set you back about $80 total with shipping. Your 1301 is going to need a mag button shroud out the gate. The nice version is gong to cost you about $70 shipped. There just aren't heaps of people pulling their hair out trying to get them sorted. And even a full MOA worked gun is price competitive with the 1301. Technically the gas guns are less harsh on recoil and cycle faster. But are they winning? If they aren't winning for the best shooters and the best shooters aren't migrating for that advantage, what good is it going to do for your joe average new shooter? Hell Google 1301 problems and Google stoeger m3k problems and read. Apparently the 1301 is rolling the dice too. Except Apparently more and without good known fixes. And you can't open it up a lot. And you have to put on a shield or worry about bopping the bolt release and getting 2 on the lifter. Been there and fine that with the 930. If rather spend half as much. But that's me.

Don't get the beretta 1301. I don't think I've seen one not have issues over a fairly short period of use. Not so much you aren't going to get through a match, but expect to be needing with it over a busy match season. I shot two seasons with my stoeger and it started having issues in the third season. It just needed a new magazine spring. The inertia guns won. Don't pay double for gas gun problems. I've got a 930 with about $1000 in it trying to make it run right. It gathers dust since I got my stoeger. My friend is looking at ditching their 1301 for a stoeger. IMO there's really two sensible choices in terms of a value proposition. Go for best bang for the buck and get the stoeger. Our decide you want the pinnacle of three gun shotguns and just go straight to Roth performance. By the time you are done having someone dick around making a benelli just right, you are most of the way to the price tag on the Roth. Pew Pew isnt right about the m3k. Yes the 3000 needed a little tlc on some guns. I know about a dozen people running them box stock. Some people swap out the extractor for a benelli one, but you don't really need to.