The weather has been very hot for the past week or two in southern Illinois. When it breaks, I do plan on a good practice shooting session. Within two weeks, I will be hunting Colorado during the black powder season with a cow elk tag in my pocket. I plan on using my Remington 700 ML rifle in .54 caliber teamed with Winchester ML 209 primers; a 535 grain No Excuses pure lead bullet; and 90 grains of 777 black powder substitute. My back up weapon will be a TC Encore in .50; Winchester 209 ML primer; 90 grains of 777; and a 300 grain Thor all copper bullet. I have killed two cow elk within the past few years with this combination. I do like the Thor bullets. Will post the information on MM when I get my Remington rifle sighted in for the load mentioned earlier in this post. My in line Remington 700 (equipped with a 209 conversion ignition system kit) rifle would not fire Black Horn 209 powder..only poof! I was using a CCI ML 209 primer too. Cow Tag