Finally got to get the Whelen to the range for sighting the scope in. First let me say that I purchased the gun from Grice's in Clearfield, PA and received top notch service that I have become accustomed to dealing with them. Ok, to the range, after cleaning the gun and picking up 2 boxes of Remington 200 gr factory loads I proceeded to sight the gun in at 50 yds. By the time I moved the target out to 100 yds, it was printing 3 shot groups of 1/2" after moving out to 100 yds and a box and a half of ammo I shot 2 5 shot groups the first of which was 1 1/2" and the second was slightly smaller with 3 of the 5 touching. I have no doubt that handloading will tighten the groups up. I plan in starting out with I4064 and take it from there. I was nicely surprised with the accuracy potential of this gun and can see it becoming my primary brush gun. Recoil wise off the bench I would estimate perceived recoil on par with a 300 win mag.