My 10 year old son Tyler and I are best friends and hunting partners. I Bought Tyler a CVA wolf for Christmas last year from Wal-Mart on clearance for $80.00. He was out of school yesterday so we were able to hunt all day. I'm happy to say that Tyler was successful but it came at a price. I'm very proud of Tyler, however I am very dissapointed in myself. I spent so much on Noslers and sabots and so on and so forth, instead of sharing all of that with Tyler and helping him find the optimum load for his gun, I gave him my " hand me down " bullets and pellets and zeroed his gun in at 50 yards. Tyler and I were sitting in our box stand Saturday morning when a nice little six pointer steps out at 80 yards. Tyler took his time and held it right on the buck's shoulder and squeezed the trigger. I was watching with my rifle scope and saw the bullet hit just under the deer. When I told him that he had missed, he was devistated. A little later, we went to the club house and shot his rifle to find it was shooting very low. Upon further inspection, I found that the scope mounts were loose, in fact, one was missing a screw in a ring. After tightening everything up. I set him up with some Noslers and some MMP 24 sabots. Here's what we wound up with:

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We hunted another stand in the afternoon and the results were very much different. Check it out:
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I'm ashamed of myself for not making sure that he was just as prepared as I was and that cost him a decent buck. He seems pretty happy with his 110lb Doe.