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Old 10-17-2005 | 10:52 AM
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Default RE: discharge/clean or not

Personally I never hunt more then one day with the same load. At the end of the day I shoot the thing off and clean the rifle. If I were you seeing that November season is so far off, pull the breech plug and push the projectile out. Then all you have to do is run a couple solvent patches and oil the barrel since it was not fired.

Besides a danger to firemen.. it does actually pose a danger to anyone else in the house that might forget the rifle is loaded. Loaded rifles have a way of slipping from memory and then later becoming a very serious and sometimes deadly problem.

If you did not fowl the barrel, the load did not get wet, or was not subjected to extreme temperature changes, and you have a safe place to store it (tie a read handkerchief through the trigger guard to warn yourself and others it is loaded), you could store it until just before then next season. Then shoot it off and see if the rifle would have fired and what kind of accuracy the load produced. Just for your own future reference.
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