Totally clean bore in all rifles. Sighted in for the clean bore shot, use T 7 and leave the load in all season. Did my testing and found that most times I can get good groups with the second shot with out doing any cleaning. After the second shot got to wipe the bore clean to be anywhere close to the same impact area.

Al

Clean bore. My rifle will shoot the first shot into the group out of a clean barrel, so there's no need to leave it fouled.

this year fouled thanks to bh209

I use real black powder so I keep the bore clean.

Clean...I don't care how the 2nd shot shoots, it's all about the 1st...

Now, with my flinters, my 2nd is still dead on...I'm guessing you are talking about inlines...

Clean. My Optima doesnt change POI from 1-3 shots.

Same here with my Great Plains .54 - so is the 3rd. 4th, etc. Even wiping/not wiping the bore doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. However, I'm shooting it only at 50 yards with iron sights, as opposed to 100 yards and a scope with some other guns, so it's not a valid comparison.

Clean and dry. And I run a cleaning patch through the barrel between shots too. It only takesthree or fourpatches to totally clean my omega after a shot or two anyway.

I wish my sidelocks were that easy to clean.

Ditto

Before I load in the morning I take and swab the barrel out with a alcohol patch and a couple of dry ones to get the oil out. So a clean barrel for the first shot.