How many of you hunt with your XP-100?

Mine is a .35 Remington, with a laminated Fajen Thumb hole Stock and a 2x Leupold scope.

I’ve taken 4 deer with it in the last 10 years. I should use it more but it’s my fair weather gun.

I always wanted one it 7mm-08, had one on order for over a year finally settled for the .35 Rem. I found one at a gun show with the icky brown plastic stock, and talked the dealer down to $255.

I've got an "icky brown" .221 Fireball. I smoke some groundhogs with it and took one whitetail to see if I could. I could.

I had a friend back in NY that had .221 Fireball, with the ribbed barrel they are a neat weapon.

He took one of the luckiest shots I have ever witnessed, A Woodchuck at a little over 130 paces with open sites.

Moose Meat,

I wouldn't call that "the luckiest shot", because the the gun and cartridge are capable of more. I have had several xp-100s over the years and 3 or 4 were 221 Fireball before I rebarreled to wildcat cartridges. The fireball is a great small varmit gun.

Jon

Jon you must be one **** of a good shot. I guess the “luck” is in the eye of the beholder.

I’m sure I can’t consistently hit a 6” target at 120 + yards with open sites with any of my handguns maybe if I was sitting at a bench and using a rest, but even then with open sites I would be hard pressed to keep a 6” group.

Back in PA and NY where I use to live you walk the fields looking for chucks and 9 times out of 10 took them standing no rest, and they didn’t always stand still for you so it’s kind of a quick draw and shoot, it’s not like hunting P-Dogs. I blasted one with a Colt Python 6” .357 Mag. at close to 100 yards once free hand, could I have done it again? Maybe but the chances that I would miss are a lot better.

Over the years, I've owned 2 .221 Fireballs. The 1st.was used for groundhogs with a 7X burris scope.The other, bought used, was immediately converted by David Armstrong in 1979 to 7mm/308 to use as an Unlimited gun in IHMSA competition. I won a few matches, and 2 State Championships with it. It still lives here. Since then, I was able to acquire several Remington Custom Shop XP's over a several year period leading up to the early '90's: a .223 that I've used for prairie dogs and groundhogs. After several scopes, it now wears a 3-12X PA Burris; a .250 Savage, with a 4X Burris, that I used to take several head of game with, including a Pronghorn @ 254 yds. A .308 (4X Burris)has been used on deer in Texas. Two others, a 7mm-08 (Bushnell 3200 2-6X), and a .35 Rem.(Burris 4X, going to a Bushnell 3200),have been shot a fair amount, but have not been hunted with. I think the XP-100 ( in its original single shot configuration, not the R/ Model 7 version) is a wonderfully accurate, strong and elegant handgun. I probablly don't need to tell you that.

My daughter @ 13 shot a friends .221 xp 100 last month @ 100 yrds and got 7 rounds in a dime space. My friend also took a 155 pound Hog last winter at 200+ yrds with it. If I didn't like my T/C so much I would get one. :D Guy

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All the time!
I hunt with XP's in 6-284, 6.5-284, and the 7mm Dakota.
PD's to elk.


Ernie