ORIGINAL: jt_6
Well the process of test loads and slugs for Colorado has started.
While shooting yesterday I started to think about all those guys who spit and swab after each shot while practicing. During a hunting situation you would not have time to spit and swab. You would be lucky to get 2 shots off most 3.I am also taking into account that the spit and swab method will give you the best groups. Question- Why would you sight your gun in for hunting with this method? Would it be more sensible to sight in the way you hunt, no more than 3 shots at a time then clean the bore and start again. Started testing no excuses and like what I see at 50 yards so far.
I use bore butter in the field to SWAB--I pre make up patches with a little bit of bore butten rubbed into a patch about 6 or 8 and put them in a baggie---and only consider that I am going to get 1 shot, exactly like bow hunting except you got 50 yards more range effectively (my max shot with a bow is 25 yards and I am very good at that range 6 or 6 in kill zone every time). I hardly ever have to have a 2nd shot and there is always adequate time to swab and shove one down the barrel. I have even shot two deerafter getting a buck and the doe he was following came back to see what happen to him---after I climbed down from the tree. So just count on a single shot, most of the time, say 90% you will not need the 2nd shot, and most of the time I don't even load since it is boom flop in most cases the last 3 years. Chap Gleason