In your case you wouldn't learn much with your background. New competitors have a variety of problems. Most new competitors have never run more than 50 rounds of pistol ammo thru their sidearms, 100 rifle rounds, and 25 shotgun rounds. Most have never transitioned between the different guns for one string much less on the clock. With pistols most problems are aftermarket fire control parts, lubrication, or magazine related, with rifles lubrication issues, and shotgun issues can be burrs, lubrication, or operator. With the shotgun new competitors have rarely loaded on the clock. I think this can create open operator mistakes (although I can't offer any specifics here). With the Mossberg 930 we have seen all kinds of failures. If you don't load the 930 in the proper way the gun will lock up. (This has to do with the pushing the bolt release). I have seen bunches of Mossberg pumps lock up and they have to go to the safe table to pull the gun apart. In 3 gun, the shotgun is recognized as the weak link. After I began writing this response I didn't mean those specific weapons were failure prone. Sorry for the confusion. I can't count the times I have seen guys begin having problems with an M4 that was due to running the gun too dry.

