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Well, the winner was the Federal 2.75 Vital Shock OOO 8-pellet buckshot load using the MOD choke. It threw very even patterns. 25m the pattern was all 8-pelelts inside 12.5" 40m 1 pellet made it off the test-target and the rest (7) were evenly spread over a maximum span of 17" At 55m, 6 out of the 8 pellets were still on-target inside a 23" span, distributed evenly. Considering that a torso is defined as 19" across by the military, out to 40m this load is DEVESTATING, and out to 55m+, it would be a fight stopper. At 25m, I feel confident that all 8 pellets would hit the target if the individual was facing towards me. I will test this load some more at a later date with an IMOD choke to see if the pattern can be tightened even more. *Test weapon was M4S90 w/Briley MOD choke. All distances were paced off by my, and my measured error is usually 10 paces at 400m and within 1-3m at 100m. However, since a hill was involved this time, all distances are +-3m I would confidently claim. ** Just because a pellet made it off the test-target does not mean it "went totally wild", sometimes the pattern was only 3-4" from the edge of the target and thus the pattern may only be a few inches larger for the missing pellet.

PM me with what you want for your LNIB/NIB OEM PG M4S90 stock. I traded mine in a deal for a collapsible, and I would like another OEM stock. To the seller of my M4 Collapsible stock: If you want the price we agreed my OEM PG stock was worth, I will purchase it back from you at that, just PM me. If not, all is well, but I figured I would mention it.

Nausea/Vomiting Goats. Or night vision goggles. I'm not sure.

Meh, my ammo budget eclipses my female budget quite handily. Actually this month my female budget is technically negative (positive?) since some female friends took me out to eat and to the movies 3x.

I'm not trying to be a d1ck, but Wilson Combat is going to be out of your price-range unless you get a sweet deal on a used CQB or something, and even then $1500 or so is what good deals usually are on those. Wilson DOES have a GREAT! lifetime warrenty though, so buy with confidence. If it messes up, they will do everything under the sun. The HK USP in .45 is a nice pistol, I prefer it over the HK45, however, I seem to be in the minority there. Check out both. They are 2 separate models.

Aimpoint T1 hands down, especially with NVG's being a criteria.

Call the guy and ask if it does. He is very technical and very honest.

Just lay the gun upside down on a FLAT surface. If it rocks on the sights, something is off. Then you must determine if it is the insert on the front sight, the rear-sight, or what. I have a pretty good sense of these things and could tell just sighting down the barrel.I mic'ed out a .007" amount of distance between the "short" wing on the sight and the long-wing, when laying it against glass. I guess my eyesight is decent. The shells pictured are the new Remington TAC-8 LE buckshot. I am looking forward to testing them along with half a dozen other loads of OO and OOO buckshot tomorrow.

Well, 2/3+ mine failed the balance test. They were not mic'ed out like I did mine (I didn't see the point, I was just curious, but I mic'ed mine out before I called Benelli). So I don't want to say DEINITIVELY 2 out of 3 were messed up, but that's pretty much how it looked to me. Cheap cell-phone pix coming inside the hour.

Well, my new barrel for my M4S90 arrived. Set it upside down on my glass table top and narry a wiggle. This one is dead-nuts on as far as the front sight goes. While out and about the other day I tested some M4's at my local gun stores. 2 out of 3 wobbled upside down on the gunstore's glass countertop. This is a bit of a disturbing trend. In one case, I handed the M4 to the guy behind the counter and asked him, which way, if any the FSB was leaning. He looked for 10 seconds and said "left". This confirmed both how it looked to me and how it wobbled on the glass display case top. This is disconcerting, but nice to know Benelli fixed mine and it is now 100%. Door to door was roughly 14 days including an insane 6 day time when it was in UPS's hands coming to me from MD.

*Whips out DSM IV-TR handbook*

I just found it ignorant/asinine considering I have posted pictures of my stuff on here, some systems that which came out to over $3500MSRP before and found it childish to call me out on being 23 and supposedly not being able to afford something a couple hundred bucks more than the stuff I have already shown you guys. Also, I found the mentality that a well-built, uber-expensive 1911 not being able to fail to be absurd. Been there, done that, got the refund to prove it. However, if I needed or wanted another 1911, I would go with Wilson Combat, hands down. They shipped it back and forth on 2 occasions on THEIR dime, both ways (4 trips at $90 a trip) to fix things they had done wrong on it and to re-attatch the rear-sight, which they finally changed out in favor of their old-school press-fit sight instead of the one they started using recently as it kept sliding out of alignment. That didn't solve all the issues it was having, but that's besides the point. Wilson stood behind their product up unto and including the refund. I was impressed GREATLY with them and my dealer.

It depends on what you were trying to achieve as to whether that was an upgrade or not I guess.

I am still amused about the "affording" comment forst made, but I have found that Wilsons, are a lot less "rough" than Baers and they don't require a small team and a metal bushing to take apart.

Then he will: 1. Not be able to get the barrel-hangers over the tube. 2. The threads will be a weak point and could possibly result in cracking at that point if the tube his struck/bumped. 3. If he makes the tube narrow enough, yet thick enough to fit the barrel-hangers AND be strong enoough, he will not be able to fit shells in it as THAT will have narrowed. 4. CF flexes, if one rests the mag-tube on something and tries to fire, depending on the situation, the mag could flex and a jam could result. CF just isn't the answer here.

No kidding? I want pix. Something went wrong with Benelli's anodizing tank, eh?

I have found bare hands work the best. Never tried the pipe wrench thing. All the of my M4's responded well to just hands and a heatgun.

With a $1250 budget I would look at the HK45 and a case of ammo. When I change platforms it takes me 3-500 rounds to become as good with the new platform as I was with the old when it comes to pistols normally. Each person is different though, but I suggest running 2-300 rounds through WHATEVER you buy to test for reliability. I have uncovered lots of problems this way that I never would have known about had I just dumped a few mags and called it good. Spend the money to test the platform.

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I wouldn't buy a 1911. Period. Been there, done that, they just don't impress me. Sure, they look great, and WHEN they work, they work great, but it's too much of a crap-shoot. I have owned 1911's from a $1800 Les Baer to a $4,000+ Supergrade Wilson Combat. None of them ran right. I just don't like them.

I don't think a carbon-fiber tube would work due to the wall-thickness (or thin-ness) required here. I am not sure what Benelli uses, but it sucks. One of my M4's mag-tubes was dented right from Benelli, lol.

With a shotgun, I agree, but no need compounding things.

Not much to develope, get the right threads on the right diameter pipe and go to town. It's so simple that it's all about consistant product and superior materials. Titanium alloy and Ceracoat (*sp) are about the best two materials I can think of for this application.

Good price. $25 under what I bought my first one at.