klundin2000
Do you guys shoot off your ML at the end of the days hunt and then start the next day hunting with cleaned ML?? Or do you just leave the ML loaded for an extended period of time.
To be honest with you I very seldon shoot a load off to clear it or even remove the breech plug and pull the load. The only time that i might do that is when I think I might have contaminated the load accidentally. If I am confident that i have not contaminated the load I will/have hunted long extended periods of time with it that same iniatial load.
Do you leave it in the vehicle overnight, protect it in some way??? Just looking for more helpful tips.
If you are confident that you have protected the load during the load... the next biggest problem is bringing a very cold gun into a warm enviroment - you do stand the chance of collecting condensation... For my part when i have hunted all day in really cold weather - then I get back to the truck the gun goes in the cab with me and we begin the trip back home - after all the cab is cold also almost as cold or as cold as it is outside. The cab warms slowly so does the rifle. When I get home the rifles goes in the non-heated garage and then in the morning back out into the cold cab to warm up slowly on the drive to the hunt but we never really warm the truck up a lot after all we have cold weather hunting clothes on also.
Here is a test i did a few years back....
http://huntingnet.com/forum/black-po...ther-test.html
But it still goes back to your own personal experiance and feelings...