I've had less trouble from my sidelocks "throwing" the first shot than from my inline. I shoot mostly PRB in them and I think the consistency is from the wiping action of the patch. I can shoot 20 to 30 shots without cleaning and still hold a consistent group.

With the inline it seems to happen more with lighterconicals and light PowerBelts. Sabot loads have less problems.When shooting larger bullets like the No Excuses 460 it prints the same for at least 6 shots. With some loads I've seen as much as 8" difference from 1st to 2nd shot. That even after swabbing the clean bore andpopping 3 caps/primers.

When using one of those loads, I drop in a Clean Shot pellet (left over from a breif forray in that direction) and a wad of cleaning patches over it and fire it. I've never had any problems with the small amount of fouling in the barrel and itputs my first shot right where it's suppose to be.