What shotgun are you running?

I think my question came out wrong.
Its not so much the 3.5" chamber, or more precisely the stroke length, but what its most commonly attached to based on the responses in this thread.

If I was going to spend a decent chunk of change on a pimped out competition gun, I'd want a better starting platform than a Remington.
There are lighter and better balanced options, with better ergonomics and internals that will last a long time rather than deform after a couple hundred rounds.

My thinking may be off though.
I may be too demanding of my equipment

Also, the 1 extra shell capacity really is insignificant.
 
pauls said:
I think my question came out wrong.
Its not so much the 3.5" chamber, or more precisely the stroke length, but what its most commonly attached to based on the responses in this thread.

If I was going to spend a decent chunk of change on a pimped out competition gun, I'd want a better starting platform than a Remington.
There are lighter and better balanced options, with better ergonomics and internals that will last a long time rather than deform after a couple hundred rounds.

My thinking may be off though.
I may be too demanding of my equipment

Also, the 1 extra shell capacity really is insignificant.
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OK so, get a SBE 2 or SBE 3.
 
No self control.
Case of the Mondays.



So...anyone buying all this fancy equipment feel like going to the IPSC Shotgun World Championships in France next June?
What better way to really see what it and you can do!
 
adamg said:
I would be asking them why they only have 10 rounds in their pump.
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Most commonly available mag tubes are called 10 rd which really means 9+1. Lots of pumps won't ghost load and even the 870 can be tricky. But you already knew all that. No one in the States uses or cares about 3.5" guns since they have mag tubes much longer than the barrels so 2 3/4 guns are fine for that matter if you can get big enough tubes or rotary mag tubes. We need every advantage we can get and yes, one extra round can make a difference where seconds count. Depends how the stage is laid out.
 
MustangFrank said:
Most commonly available mag tubes are called 10 rd which really means 9+1. Lots of pumps won't ghost load and even the 870 can be tricky. But you already knew all that. No one in the States uses or cares about 3.5" guns since they have mag tubes much longer than the barrels so 2 3/4 guns are fine for that matter if you can get big enough tubes or rotary mag tubes. We need every advantage we can get and yes, one extra round can make a difference where seconds count. Depends how the stage is laid out.
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I don't know much about pumps, but on a semi shotgun I know they have a built-in magazine that usually holds 4 rounds. Then a person could buy a +8 or +9 extension and be holding about 13 in the extension. My Versamax works that way, where I run a +8 tube in the States and it holds 12 in the tube. And plenty of guys in the States stack on another extension to hold in the 14-16 range in their tube-fed Open-division shotguns.

In any event, I don't see any reason guys with pumps here wouldn't run a 12 round magazine minimum. Locally that's what we do.
 
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