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Posted: 11/14/2012 8:20:45 AM EDT
| So I'm wondering if ghost loading a Benelli m4 is safe or will it cause the gun to jam... thus making the shooter become a ghost. Has anyone tested it? I did it only twice and of those times it jammed once and fired normally once. I was using 2 3/4 shells. And is there a special trick you have to do with the bolt override, or something, to make sure it does not jam? |
| I've never had a problem with it. If the bolt closes all the way you should be good. I was skeptical at first but I've probably done it 1000 times with not one malfunction. But then again, my M4 has never malfunctioned period, even with cheap bulk pack birdshot. Maybe you have some other issue going on. |
| I've only done it a few times on my H&K m1 super90, but from what I recall you have to make sure you properly place the shell. Having only done it a handful of times I want to say you put the shell in and make sure it's as far back as possible? Make it's the other way. I seem to remember that it affected loading one way or the other. |
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When my gun was new it would fail to feed the last round out of the tube if I ghost loaded the gun. I couldn't replicate the failure unless the gun was ghost loaded.
After 100 rounds, and a good cleaning the problem went away. Clean it really well, go run some 00 buck and report back. |
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I own an M1super90, not an M4. I don't think that will make any difference though. I have ghost loaded many times, always successfully. I don't refer to it as ghost loading however. I call it loading on the follower. Nor should anyone. Way too melodramatic a name for it.... |
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I own an M1super90, not an M4. I don't think that will make any difference though. I have ghost loaded many times, always successfully. I don't refer to it as ghost loading however. I call it loading on the follower. Same here. I've done it many, many, many times as I use by M1S90 for 3-gun and this is my standard loading practice. NEVER a problem related to ghostloading. |
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Keep in mind that floating the shell when hunting under restricted capacity is illegal. They modified the sporting benellis so you can't do it for that reason. I've ghost loaded my Remington 11-87P and despite being a royal pain in the ass because the gun was never intended to be loaded that way, it has always worked with hi power loads. |
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I own an M1super90, not an M4. I don't think that will make any difference though. I have ghost loaded many times, always successfully. I don't refer to it as ghost loading however. I call it loading on the follower. Nor should anyone. Way too melodramatic a name for it.... Also heard it called "carrier load", either way I've never had any trouble with it |
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