Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
I forgot to come back to this thread. I'm with you too. I always hunt with a clean barrel, but that means clean. Two primers isn't clean to me. I've never had to take a 2nd shot, but i'm really picky about the shots I take.
To those who fire primers. >---->On my last Accura MR the primers were sticking after being shot. As an experiment I shot just two primers to see if they were sticking by themselves with no powder load.
I mention this, because the bore was squeaky clean before firing the two primers. I cleaned to bore after doing this, and was shocked at how much fouling the bore had. It was very close to cleaning the bore after shooting loads of BH. Most guys never try this. Try it and see that shooting off primers really does foul the bore, and it's not what I call hunting on a clean bore.
Just saying.
As I said before Pete, I always cap off a couple just to ensure a dry bore/breech plug. Next time I go out I'll really swab it down with a couple dry patches and blow the BP out with air then take a shot without the 2 caps previous. Just to see if it makes any difference in the shot. Had some bad storm action last night with tornado's so I'm kinda doubting it will be today but I'll get to it soon. Just to soothe your old mind