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Cold bore or fouled barrel.
jrebel:
Clean bore shots are way worse than cold bore shots in my opinion. I never hunt on a clean bore. I usually deep clean my barrels once a year before I put them away for the winter. From spring till the deep clean cycle, I may run a couple patches through the rifle ever 50-100 shots or as groups start to open up. After a deep clean, I find it could take 3-5 shots to foul the barrel before my groups start tightening up again.
Same is true for a muzzleloader.....though usually one fouling shot is plenty. :tup:
GWP:
I have had rifles AND pistols (long range) that would shoot different on a cold bore shot and/or with a clean barrel. Some others it made no difference. One of my best shooting rifles was in a stock not make for it and had misc contact in various places to the end of the wood stock. I eventually cleaned up the contact points, bedded it and it made ZERO difference that I could tell, but that one was certainly the exception. I often wondered if it cancelled out the harmonics, touching in so many places.
The only way to know on yours is to experiment, like you and others have said.
Buckjunkie:
I have a rifle that shoots good cold and clean, but all the others like to be fowled…at least 3 - 5 shots.
All shoot good cold fowled.
pickardjw:
Easy solution, stop cleaning the barrel.
30.06:
I fire 2 fouling shots from each rifle before arriving in hunting camp. 3 would be better but I am a cheapskate and don't reload. If I miss I clean the rifle and switch to the other one. I probably wouldn't miss so much if I fired 4 fouling shots from each rifle.
Probably as many different ways to approach the problem as there are different ways to hunt. Great topic!
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