I dropped off my hunting rifle at the Colorado School of Trades, a gunsmith school, to have a Timney Sportsman trigger installed and the stock lengthened a little. It should be ready in a couple weeks.

The military trigger on there now is pretty heavy and seems to have a lot of gritty creep even after taking up the initial slack.

It was after shooting a really nice Savage tactical rifle with a truly brilliant trigger and putting a group inside an inch, especially two holes touching, that convinced me to upgrade my rifle.

The Savage had zero creep that I could feel, a light pull, and such a crisp, instantaneous break with zero overtravel, that it was just a matter of thinking about firing and it suddenly happened without even feeling like I'd moved a muscle. Very cool.

I'm hoping my sad 3-6" groups at 100 yards will tighten up considerably once I get the firearm back.

The biggest upgrade will be to my confidence if I can put a string of bullets in an inch circle on the bench. I've always worried that if I shoot minute of pie plate at the range, I'll be shooting minute of barn door when I'm vibrating from buck fever in the field.

Got drawn for Antelope - doe tag!

Got drawn for deer in our regular area!

Unrelated topic: one of the backyard bunnies got severely injured somehow, back legs paralyzed, one injured, flies already buzzing around him. Just an absolutely awful sight. I suspect a particular neighborhood cat is to blame. This cat killed and partially ate another rabbit a few weeks ago. I felt I had to put the rabbit out of his misery. Never had to do that before. Ugh.

Just checked my draw results and I successfully drew for cow elk in our preferred area around Buena Vista. Sweet! Also, the Timney trigger just arrived for my hunting rifle. Will be taking it in for installation soon.