My spouse thinks us men are talking about some weird hygiene ritual. However, you know what I mean. I have started purposely pulling the nipple(s) and using a pinch of FFFg from my pan primer under them. This is regardless of whether I am using Goex or a substitute and in rifles and shotguns for hunting. It is time consuming and I do not do this for every single shot. On a clean gun I run an alcohol patch and use and air gun to blow it dry (usually before leaving the house). Upon arrival at the field (woods, wherever) I started doing the powder under nipple thing. What I am trying to do is increase the odds to maximum favorability that the gun will discharge on the first shot. It is a rarity that one does not without this practice, but it has happened twice in the last year when someone was hunting with my rifle and once with the shotgun. If you add the pre-hunt range session for a total # of loadings it comes out to like 1:35 fail to fire first shot. Since starting this practice I have gone 0:50 - no fail to fire on first shot. Now that I know it seems to work, I am not going to do it at the range or conduct any further experimentation. I plan to keep doing this for hunting - unless you tell me something I hadn't thought of that changes my mind. So my questions are: Does anyone else do this? Is there a proven long-term negative affect to this practice? Suggestions for something else?
Thanks!
Thanks!