By Glen Wunderlich

Today, I had what appeared to be a challenge to say the least.  I had dropped my slug gun, a NEF Ultra Slug topped with a 1.2 x 5 Leupold Vari X III, a few days ago and noticed that the scope caps had been swung off line from center/top.  Therefore, I concluded that to be sure, I had to verify where my point of aim would actually hit.

To make matters difficult, I had only a total of five 12-gauge Federal Premium shells remaining.

Federal Premium 12-gauge shells w/Barnes bullets

Although, I had other ammo, I didn’t have enough of any one brand to sight in and hunt with unless I were to get lucky.  As it turned out, I never had to find out.

I had resigned myself to the distinct possibility of having to use my muzzleloader.  Not that it’s a bad option; on the contrary, it is a true 200 yard deer getter.  But, with my new higher-power Leupold Vari X III, 3.5 x 10, 50mm objective, I hadn’t shot it a lot.  In fact, I have only sighted it in at 50 yards.  Not good enough for serious longer range shooting.

You can see all the targets I had set out figuring I’d need to shoot a bit.

100 Yards, First Shot to Verify Zero

For now the muzzleloader can stay at home.  So can all the partial boxes of ammo.  Yep, one shot!