You know when I get back home, I'm gonna check my manual. I think a 100 grain limitation would have leapt out at me or maybe there is difference with Stainless. I thought the limit was 120 grains but since I never planned to use more than 100 grains, maybe I just overlooked it. I follow up on that later.

I had another fabulous outing with the Apex today. I shot all the way to 140 yards today. I was very impressed it. First thing I did was try 100 yards. The night before I matched my trajectory to the 25 yard and 75 yard POI'susing 1550 fps (50 fps higher than sidekick).I calculated2.2 in low at 100 yards. So lifted the rear sight one grad to zero it. Sure enough the POI's of the final two of three shots were separated by two inches almost the same elevation while the first centered themand landed and 1.25" below. The center of the grouping was 4.5 inches right of bull. Last night they were .5 inches left of bull at 75 yards in pristine range conditions. It was windy (and gusty) so shots wound up stringing in the horizantal axis.

For grins and giggles, I pushed the target back to 140 yards. I had worked out trajectory sheets for each grad. At the top grad, the load should be 1.5 inches low at 140 yards. Sure enough the center of the next five shots was 1.7 inches low of point of aim, but oh my, the wind really screws with group size at that range. Some of the shots were off the target the wind had blown them that far right.

Then I left the sights in the same place and went back to 80 yards. I wanted to see how close the trajectory was in realityto the one I calculated.Looking at the chartI saw the point of impact should be 4.5 in high at 80 yards. I buckled on a new target, which is shown below. I was amazed to find the next two shots precisely 4.5 in. high at 80 yards. I moved the rear sight to where I wanted to leave her. I want 1" low at 100 yards so I put the sight just a little over 1/2 grad higher than last night and shot a 5 shot group on the same target. It was about 3.5 inches wide but only 1.5 inches tall. I'm proud of that, less than 2 MOA in the vertical axis. Most of the horizontal spread was from the wind.

Frontier Gander, you may not know the T/C's that well, but I learned first hand what you meant by getting a gloved finger through the trigger guard. It was chilly today and I was wearing heavy (snow skiing type) gloves. While I wouldn't feel comfortable pushing a gloved finger through with the rifle cocked, it was no problem and completely safe to put the finger through and then cock the rifle. Awesome!