Before you load that thing.. be sure to swab the barrel with a lightlydamp alcohol patch. Work the patch on the loading jag in short strokes from muzzle to breech. After that do the same thing with two dry patches. Make sure the barrel is oil free and dry before loading. This is the same manner you would swab the barrel after you shoot during the day and need to load a second shot. Many people bring with them hunting, swab patches and dry patches.

Then push a dry patch down to the empty breech and pop a 209 primer. Pull that and look at the patch. It should be burned, sometimes even blow back over the jag, and black. That means the breech is nice and clear. Now pull that, and pop off a second 209 primer.

Now drop your pellets. If they are pyrodex, lift them from their plastic container with that pipe cleaner, and dump them the say way they face in down the barrel. They have a small end coated with black powder to help in their ignition. Triple Se7en pellets do not, but load them the same way they sit in their box like a big sky crane, over to the barrel and down to earth...

Now put your projectile in the muzzle and in one fluid motion, push that down until you feel it seat on the pellets. You do not have to crush the Pyrodex RS pellets or the Triple Se7en pellets. The APP and Shockey "sticks" need to be crushed.

Now cap that back breech plug with the 209 primer and you should be set to go. Good luck. if you don't see anything, at the end of the day, pick out something like a knot on a tree and see how close that rifle is shooting. Sometimes they just seem to change as they sit around, or you forget the exact sight hold..

Get 'er done and shoot a big un...