All of us got together, dad, bro and i. Took out their rifles, dad with his cabelas sporterized hawken, .50cal percussion, Bro with his cva hawken .50 percussion, Me with my x-150 " of course" and my new deercreek .45 percussion.

I shot first with the x-150 @ 100 yards, 295 aerotip powerbelts, federal 209's and 110 grains loose RS. I fired 2 shots, checked them, and they came up at 1 1/2" groups. I let my dad fire the last 2 powerbelts i had and he shot 2" groups @ 100 with the x-150 but a few inchs to the right. After that, we were just messing around and shooting at 50 yards with the side locks. They were getting close bulls eye shots and after a while i said to heck with this, loaded up 60 grains RS in my .45, shot at 100 yards and over shot! After 6 shots i decided to try 50 grains and PRB @ 100 yards. 2" high of the bullseye and an 1 1/2" to the right. First 2 shots were darn near in the same hole and the 3ed shot was an inch low. I think i got this rifle figured out now. Very awesome shooting day, almost 70, slight cool breeze, perfect day to go shooting.

One that that p!$$es me off is that darn .45 sidelock out shot my inline! Ah thats okay, we'll see how it holds water when i stuff those 385 grain great plains bullets down the x-150s snout.

Im also going to be using the copper plated 225 grain powerbelts in the .45 this summer and see how it does. Shoots PRB's excellent right now but they are not heavy enough to be legal.

Another thing that happened when i was loading the x-150 for my dad. he watching and was like, boy those caps fall right out of there after you shoot. I was like yeah they do, they load even better without the capper tool. Then i told him about RW's article about how hard the x-150 was to load and unload and my dads just rolls his eyes and is like, experts!