Well I finally got sick of dinking with my Remington muzzle loader. I was at the gun store the other day and was looking at a few of the slug guns. I asked the guys how accurate the H&R's were and they said VERY. They had a used one there for 219 bucks.

I went home and shot my ML a few more times and said screw it. What a pain in the you know what this is. It shoots good but is just a hassle to mess with. Not to mention my swivel stud came out of the POS plastic stock they put on this gun. It has happend before and I epoxied it back in. I don't feel like doing it again.

I thought about switching back to clean shot as well, and possibly getting the .209 primer conversion. I thought about it and decided to not waste the money getting a new stock, powder and the conversion kit for that gun. I would get a different one or a slug gun instead. The remington shoots well, but is a pain to clean compared to some of the newer models.

After reading the reviews on this site and others I decided the Ultra Slug Hunter would work great for what I want. I looked at a few things I didn't want any more and headed to the gun store this morning to do some bargaining. They did me pretty good on the trade ins and I came home with a slightly used H&R Ultra Slug gun with the laminated checkered stock, a pretty leather sling, a Bushnell Trophy 1.75-4 power scope, a set of rings and two boxes of lightfields. A little over 400 bucks out the door. And the gun came with an Ammo holder on the stock and the extended hammer spur. Two things I would have most likely got any way.

I have not shot it yet. I just got home a little while ago and have been looking at it while grabbing something to eat and checking the boards. I still have to mount the scope and sling, bore sight it and shoot it. It's kind of windy today though. I can't decide if I think it's pretty, or pretty ugly? I think it would look better with a longer barrel. Of course then it would weigh 15 lbs .

I did shoot a few field loads out of it to see if it worked. I thought the recoil would be very light because of the weight. It felt about on par with my mossberg youth model 500 with the ported barrel. And it is pretty light. That is one of the things I traded in though so I can't compare them side by side. We will see how it is with slugs. They said it should be better than 3 inch turkey loads in my mossberg and I handled that ok. I know I shouldn't be shooting field loads out of it, but I couldn't see wasting the money using the slugs just to test fire it. I'm sure two didn't hurt anything.

I will take some pics as well.

I'm gonna go play now

Paul