I'm with Sabotloader. My frontstuffers stay loaded until I get a shot or the season ends. Last year I loaded a .54 Great Plains, a .50 Mustang, and a .58 Zouave in mid-November. Hunted with each of them on various days. Killed a doe with one but the others stayed loaded for weeks until I shot them off on the range. Of course, the guns are loaded on a squeaky clean bore. I never leave a load in a fouled bore more than one day.