lemoye's thread on accuracy got me thinking so I took my Genesis to the range to shoot some 100yrd targets. I havn't done that in a while.

There was a light rain and high humidity so not optimal shooting conditions but it's fun to shoot anyway.

I started out with .400 200g XTPs pushed by 100g BH in a Crush Rib with W209s. This is the load I plan to use this year for CO pronghorn.

This was the first group. Measured 2 1/2



As I posted his lemoye's thread, Ifeel like for myself anything less than 3 inches would be fine. I think I can get this to shrink if I played w/the charge a little more-and concentrated a little more [&o] (There was a weirdo beside me shooting a fully automatic gun that had me a wee bit uneasy)

I had some .430 300g XTPs with me so I tried those as well. This time I only loaded 80g of BHw/a Crush Rib and W209.



Understandably they shot lower but not bad. 2 3/4. The first two shots were the ones nearly touching. I waited for the barrel to cool on those. But shots 3,4 and 5 I shot as fast as I could reload. (Supper was ready at home and I wanted to shoot one more group w/the 200gs) As you can see they opened up a good bit. I think one day I'll give it enough time to cool and really see what it'll do.

Lastly, I went back to the 200g XTPs and shot one more group. No cooling between shots. By this time the rain was really coming down as you can see by the wrinkled target.



That group also measured 2 1/2. I've shot 1 inch groups with this gun before but it's not an everyday thing by any means. Nonetheless, I was pleased.Any of those groups would have been meat on the table so I can't complain. But there's always room for improvment right?