oldwun
I have seen several posts saying to hunt use a fouled barrel. My question is does that mean to run a spit patch and then a dry patch and leave it that way until the season ends?
Not for me... I beleive I do hunt with a fouled barrel - not a dirty barrel but a fouled barrel...
Just before hunting season I take the gun out and shoot it a target to check the POI is where I left it. Maybe 3-4 shots... After that I do not strip clean the gun, I do not remove the breech plug , do not even take the gun out of the stock. I do patch it with windex patches until they come out clean - then dry the barrel with clean white patches... the last step i do put a very thin coat of bore oil back in the barrel, nothing like I would normally put in - really thin - then I try to patch as much oil out with with clean patches as I can. I know you are suppose to shoot sabots with a non-lubricated barrel, but in the weather I hunt I feel I need some bore protection. This minimal amount of protection does not change POI - as long as the sabot can grab the lands and grooves and does not slide across them.
So, after all of that the bore is not "clean" clean like it would be when I would put it away for storage but not so dirty that fouling is apparent. I feel I can get away with this because I am shooting T7 and the humidity here is fairly stable.
Again this my way but it will not be everybodies way....
mike