I've reached that change in life stage... Probably sell one of the pickup trucks and get a sports car.

Since I would not have to shoot past 100 yards in 99% of my cases, I really like the idea of hunting with these 10mm XTPs. Also, when I was shooting the 300 grain Hornady the same day, I was using a Harvester Crushed Rib sabot. They loaded like a dream and were really accurate. I was pushing them with 110 grains of Pyrodex RS. Yet I was shooting some 250 grain Speer Gold Dots in juststandard sabots, and when I pushed them over 100 grains the accuracy wentbad, real fast.

I actually shot my rifle so many times yesterday, that if finally just would not even go off anymore. I must have shot well over 60 rounds through it. I was swabbing from time to time.I shot off over a half pound of Pyrodex RS alone, not to mention APP 2f, Triple Se7en 3f, Graf's 2f Black Powder, and Goex 3f.

So to rid the barrel of my last shot of the day, I was forced to dump some powder down the nipple hole into the bolster. It was then I noticed a lot of crud in that bolster. I even ran a nipple pick through it into the main powder charge. Then when I capped it and fired it was instant. So it is possible to fowl out a rifle even if youswab the barrel. I was using RWS dynamite noble 1075 caps too.Needless to say towards the end of the day, accuracy was slacking off and it could have been because of the fowling in the rifle.

Yesterday when I was shooting I took out my 12 guage with the rifled slug barrel. It doesn't have a scope and I tell you I had a hard time seeing 100 yards over open sights!! I put my "Seeing" glasses on and managed to hit a 8 inch group.

Any one who shoots under 4 inches @ 100ydswith open sights is a helluva shot in my books. It's a long ways out there without glass.

I shot a similar pattern this evening...............
but I was testing APP in my 12 ga NewEnglander
Wanted to see what it would do with APP using the 209 MagSpark adapter. Every shot went off quickly, but there seemed to be some variation in the felt recoil. Humidity was 100% and the APP was clumped in the measure when I threw the first charge. Had to shake it to get it loose.

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I here ya!

Here is the pic with the camera on 1X

The 10mm 200 gr is a very interesting bullet, I took several game animals with it last year with 150 gr RS or APP and it was excellant, now with a different gun which I can only push to 120 and which get its best accuracy with 110 RS I wonder how it will do. Lee

I setup a new target and i love it. I took my dad out today to sight in his muzzleloader and he takes a look at it and asks. Why only 50yards? lol it was 1-- yards, but i cut a large u-haul box in half and nailed it to my target frame and just put a 3" orange dot on it. It allows your eye to focus on the orange dot and not whats going on around the target. I cant see a white background target for sheet so i use brown cardboard boxes with either a black circle on it during bright sunny day time and then switch to a 3" orange dot during late evening when i do most of my shooting. All of the deer ive taken were at late evening to i try to practice as much as possible with dim light.

Man, at 100 yards with any of my guns that have open sites I am happy to just hit the 16 X 16 inch target. Even with my prescription eye glasses I have a very hard time seeing the bullseye on the target. But I will tell you what, set a beer can or bottle up at 100 yards and there is a pretty good chance that I will hit it with a descent gun. When I was a kid we just never used targets, but instead shot pop cans, bottles, buckets, milk jugs etc. Some of us just need something real to rattle I guess.

TUK101 that is I think verytrue with a lot of people. I have yet to figure it out why. I have a friend that when he shoots for groups on a standard Remington Regulation targets, he can not come close to a "good" group. Set a soda can out on a stump and he will knock that thing off all the time. Same as deer hunting, he sees a deer and it is basically a dead deer if it walks past him. Then another friend is just the opposite. He can shoot the bulls out of targets all day, but put something alive in front of him and he starts to shake so bad, its actually comical. And he takes a good kidding for it in stride as he knows he does it.

We had a game around here with friends many years ago, butrecently kind of discontinued it as the kids grew up and we all got older and more unwilling to get together as much. We called it a "fruit shoot." We used to get together with the kids, even wives andgirlfriendsand go out in the woods and set apples, oranges, any old fruit from the bait barrels or refrigerator in bushes, trees, peeking out from behind logs, and then we would shoot the fruit. The ladies loved to shoot my six shot black powder revolver at things. One new years day we shot Christmas tree ornaments.. We hung them on bushes and had a blast out there.

They always commented how much the kids enjoyed shooting at the fruit, but to be honest I did too. I found it a lot more fun to shoot at that, and if you missed then the next guy got a turn and he got to tease you about missing.