As many of you know, I shoot a great deal. I shoot a number of rifles and kind of take pride in the fact I can figure out most rifles and make them really shoot pretty good. Well I have really went into a slump. I want to shoot longer distances but have now discovered that if the rifle is not scoped, my accuracy with the open sight models is not something to be happy with.

I have shot a number of the open sight rifles this past week. At 50 yards they are the same old naildrivers. At 75 yards, some of them are still behaving. It seems though that when I hit that 100 yard station something really goes down hill. Put it this way, the way I have been shooting, were it a game animal at that distance, I would not shoot.

I had a recent eye test and passed that with flying colors. So I know it is not a vision problem. I have not broke into a new case of powder so the powder would not be a factor. All that has changed is the weather is turning warmer.

That warmer temperatures never used to be a problem. With a scope I will shoot the bull out. Open sights, is a totally different thing now though. It really has be perplexed.

I guess I am doomed to shoot more.