Mike -

As we mentioned before, this was a learning thing for all of us. Also the changing to the different powders surprised me. I really thought that Triple Se7en would fail to fire. It actually fired like a nice spring day.

I never actually brought the Staghorn into the house. The wood storage room is off the family room. Itis a 14X16 room I fill with firewood for the stove. That way I do not have to wander outside in the cold to get wood for the stove. And the wood stays nice and dry and snow free. There is no heat in that room and it stays around 40ºs. So many days the rifle only climbed perhaps 10 degrees or more and at a very slow rate. Hence, lack of condensation in the barrel.

The Wood Shop again, not heated, but I ran my Salamander heater in there for about eight hours and took the humidity out of the room. Then I was careful not to drag snow in, so I think that helped the Knight Disc stay away from the humidity.

I was a little surprised the rifles shot as well as they did. Especially since they were, first shot / clean barrels. I learned a lot though doing this. I think that next year, I might just do the wood room option and not unload the rifle at all. That way when the monster buck comes out and the rifle fails to fire I have a reason to get mad.