RE: how to foul your barrel
 

patchholder.... i usually getsix and sometime eight good shots before thing start to go haywire.

RE: how to foul your barrel
 

That clean first shot that strays away from the following shots also has another difference - the barrel is completely cold at that point. My White .45 doesn't seem to care at all whether the first shot is from a fouled bore, but that first shot will strike just a tad lower than the rest due to the cold barrel. Keep up a rhythm and it just lays 'em in there but let it cool completely and it will hit a bit low again even though it's still fouled. The difference isn't enough to cause a miss on a large game animal though, at least not at reasonable range.

Just an observation, may be relevant to some and not to others.

RE: how to foul your barrel
 

Underclocked.. that is an interesting point and one that I never considered before. I guess I never looked at it from that standpoint. I have to do some testing now to see if it holds true on any of my rifles.

RE: how to foul your barrel
 

I'm lucky not to experience this first shot/following shotsituation...I use TC and GM barrels, Natural Lube 1000, Goex BP, and patched balls...45/.50/.54/.58 calibers...temperatures I shoot in are from the teens to the high 90's with % humidity from the 40's to the high 90's.

I always sight inwith a clean dry cold barrel like I'll be hunting, but to be honest, apparently it doesn't matter using what I use above...which is good...becausethe last thing in the world I would want to do is intentionally foul a ML bore then go sit in the woods with it that way for hours on end...my two cents.
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RE: how to foul your barrel
 

I have never ever intentionally fouled a bore to achive best POI accuracy or fouled a bore and then went hunting for the day.

I have always cleaned inbetween shots and recorded the best POI from a clean bore. That is the only way to abtain the best consistancy and grouping. From a clean bore. Reason is fouling characteristicsfrom shot to shot varies and obviously increases as you shoot which creates more fouling.

To take a rifle from storage and prepare for hunting with sabot's.
I remove the rust protection lube from the bore with alcohol/windex and dry patches. Then run a natural lubed patch in the bore followed by a dry patch to control any flash rust(Idon't usethe dry patch after the natural lubed patchif shooting conical or PRB). Then load as desired with powder and projectile.

Regards,

Tahquamenon

RE: how to foul your barrel
 

That is my exact thinking. You might get better groups after 2 shots in one rifle or 1 in another. But you never know what it will do a week from now or later. But I do know how a swabbed bore should shoot.