Well, it sort of quit raining so I finally got out to sight in the older Remington (24"). Before shooting the Remington I decided to shoot the 870 at a turkey target to pattern and test range - now I gotta tell you I have NO complaints about recoil from any ML load after shooting that 4 dram Federal turkey load - that thing will set you back a bit...

Now I gotta tell you I do like the new Omega - but I really do like the Remingtons. And at this point I can not tell you there are any real advantages to the Omega other than a longer working barrel. I had removed the Bushnell Elite from the Remingtonto put on the new Omega and installed a new Sightron SII - 3x9x42 on the Remington a couple of weeks ago and I have been itching to get it sighted back in.

Well it really did not take long to get the gun sighted in, the darn thing is so consistent and shoots so well. This is the designated deer rifle - so I was shooting 250 grain Speer Gold Dots in MMP HPH-24 sabots pushed by 110 grains of T7-2f with the Cabelas conversion. I am really sold on these Gold dots for deer.

Well, anyway after sighting the gun in on paper - I was going to post that target but I found something else to shoot at that was more fun. I was in an area that I call Strychnine Gravel Piles. A lot of people sight guns in there. Well somebody had placed some Quartzite rocks on top of two stumps and I really wanted to knock them off. I completed sighting the gun in - I would have shot more at the paper - but those two rocks were just begging to be had. I also felt this might be a good test of these Bonded 250's to see if the would break through a shoulder at 100+ yards. From this experiment there is no question... the bullet split the rock in two nice pieces - if you look close enough you can see the lead markings on the rock.

It was a great day with a great gun....