A PERSON NMED Brian who has no last name wrote me the he cannot find anything in my Book regarding the practice of preforming the barrel at the beginning of a day's shooting or hunting.
I'm now too blind to read my material to see if he is correct.
If I didn't include it it might be because I cannot explain it/
I had noticed that my first shot of the day out of a clean barrel consistently landed an inch or two out of the point of aim but that all following shots were in the expected tight group, dead center.
The only difference between that first shot and the rest ws that it was the only one out of a shiner clean barrel and the following shots had a quick wipe before each was loaded.
Accordingly I eliminated that first clean barrel shot by dropping a half charge down the tube a firing it, ball and patches, down range which left the residue of the burned powder which I then gave a quick wipe and proceeded to my fir serious load.
The result was that all of the 5 following shots landed pretty much on the same spot with no misbehaving first real shot/
This is something that happened with my two rifles but I have no idea if that is a more universal effect. That might be why I may not have mentioned it.
This practice caused some comment and raised eyebrows at the range. I just said my rifles required a snack before serious work.
Just to be sure. I believe I will add the above to my book.
Dutch Schoultz
I'm now too blind to read my material to see if he is correct.
If I didn't include it it might be because I cannot explain it/
I had noticed that my first shot of the day out of a clean barrel consistently landed an inch or two out of the point of aim but that all following shots were in the expected tight group, dead center.
The only difference between that first shot and the rest ws that it was the only one out of a shiner clean barrel and the following shots had a quick wipe before each was loaded.
Accordingly I eliminated that first clean barrel shot by dropping a half charge down the tube a firing it, ball and patches, down range which left the residue of the burned powder which I then gave a quick wipe and proceeded to my fir serious load.
The result was that all of the 5 following shots landed pretty much on the same spot with no misbehaving first real shot/
This is something that happened with my two rifles but I have no idea if that is a more universal effect. That might be why I may not have mentioned it.
This practice caused some comment and raised eyebrows at the range. I just said my rifles required a snack before serious work.
Just to be sure. I believe I will add the above to my book.
Dutch Schoultz