Well got to get out this morning to get some shooting in... it was a beautiful morning - wouldn't have matter if it wasn't any morning you can shoot is great morning.

Don't have any paper I can show you I went back to my fun game, it is actually more fun with two people to match shots, but I set out 20 clay pigeons from 75 yards to 175 yards, various angles and heights. Then load up and start shooting.

I had decided that I was going to concentrate on shooting the 10mm 200 grain XTP with a 110 grains of T7-2f. But part way the shooting I got the urge to shoot some 250 grain Speer Gold Dots also and it was that time I noticed an interesting difference....

When shooting the 10mm from 75 to 100 yards when I hit the clay pigeon near the middle of the bird I would blow out the center of the bird yet the edge would remain intact - fractured but intact. This is not not new for me because I have been shooting birds with centerfires for years (get tired of shooting paper in one spot). Centerfires often pierce the pigeon woth out breaking it up but I really felt a ML bullet would comepletly break it up. The next part of the picture came when I would should the second pigeon at the same range with a 250 grain GD the pigeon would be reduced to bit and pieces - no peices big enough to shoot again. The last part of the experiment occured @ 130 yards - both the 200 and the 250 grain at this distance reduced the pigeon to bits again nothing big enough to shoot the second time.

Another discovery and one that I am really happy with, when I placed the 150 yard birds I placed then in the snow on a stump with snow packed in behing to hold them up, but I did not notice until I got back to the bench was the two 150 yard birds were in behind some light slash. I could not get a clean shot at the birds - I had to shoot through the slash. Because of this I decided to shootthem with a 250 GD. Not a problem boom-smoke-no vison - but when i looked with the scope then the binoculars - no bird nothing barely could see any bits. Well, that worked so darn good I thought I would try a 200 but i was really concerned the deflecion would cause a miss, actually I thought the 250 migh deflect also, almost decided to shoot aNosler 300 grain to get to them... but anyway loaded up a 200 touched it off- no bird left after shot. I KNOW I was hitting small branches- there is now way I could get the bullets in without hitting some slash but it all worked great.

It was a fun morning wish you all could have been there...