In the past month it seems like i haven't been shooting very good. I came to believe it was because one of my scopes was haywire. This turned out to be false, but by the time i figured that out, i was already leaning toward purchasing a new scope. This lean led to a purchase i couldn't stop.

The scope i ended up purchasing is Leupold 3-9 ultralight, with a fancy reticle.









The past few days saw me mount it, and shoot it at further and further distances. The rifle is the Accura, and the load was 115g of BH, pushing a 270g Deep Curl, in a Harvester smooth sabot, lit by STS primer. Yesterday, there was little breeze, and the package produced the following target at 201 yard.








The scope was set at about 8 power, and the second dot was used to sight the target.

This morning there was some breeze, but i had to do some shooting anyway; the result of this morning's shoot, is the following target.









The temperature was about 35 when i started shooting and about 39 when i finished. What i did was shoot, and load, and shoot and load. I didn't hurry, and i didn't wait for the rifle to cool. The top 3 blue holes were shot at 103 yard, and were shot first. It appears i wasn't so very steady. Then the bottom 3 blue holes were shot at about 200 yard (forgot to measure).

The bottom yellow holes were made after i switched to the MMP hph green sabot, leaving the load unchanged otherwise. Also, i changed the scope to about 7 1/2 power. I sighted the bottom target with the second dot.

Then i switched back to the original load using the Harvester green sabot, left the scope set at 7 1/2 power, and sighted the middle target with the second dot and made the green holes.

Then i moved back to near 100 yard and shot the top 3 yellow holes with the scope set at 4 power, and using the cross hair to sight the top target. Obviously, the groups aren't so very good, but they are what they are. One thing i think i am liking, is the ability to hit where the crosshair is pointed at 100 yard, instead of sighting in for maximum point blank range, and being 3" high. I think i will use this rifle to hunt turkey the week after next. It seems the fancy reticle will be fun to shoot at all ranges. The scope was turned down 2 clicks, and will be tested with more shooting, in the days upcoming.