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<blockquote data-quote="MT4XFore" data-source="post: 350988" data-attributes="member: 4945"><p>I am unfortunately well over 50, and I have always stored cleaned rifles with the bore lubed. Part of the reason was that was how I was taught to do it and just before hunting season I check my zero and leave the gun fouled until after season is over. However, I recently started to work up loads for a couple of my rifles and decided to see if my cold bore, un-lubed shots hit to point of aim. I found out three things: 1) yes, it did hit very close to point of aim, 2) I was shooting through my chrony and the velocity of the dry barrel shot was considerably lower than the rest, and 3) the barrel was somewhat more difficult to clean afterward, depending on how many shots I fired. I am firmly convinced that the "fouling" shot does two important things, it removes the oil from the bore and it lays down its own lubricant in form of carbon deposits (graphite) for following shots. This is my opinion only, but it has worked well for me for many years, so I have no intention of changing anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MT4XFore, post: 350988, member: 4945"] I am unfortunately well over 50, and I have always stored cleaned rifles with the bore lubed. Part of the reason was that was how I was taught to do it and just before hunting season I check my zero and leave the gun fouled until after season is over. However, I recently started to work up loads for a couple of my rifles and decided to see if my cold bore, un-lubed shots hit to point of aim. I found out three things: 1) yes, it did hit very close to point of aim, 2) I was shooting through my chrony and the velocity of the dry barrel shot was considerably lower than the rest, and 3) the barrel was somewhat more difficult to clean afterward, depending on how many shots I fired. I am firmly convinced that the "fouling" shot does two important things, it removes the oil from the bore and it lays down its own lubricant in form of carbon deposits (graphite) for following shots. This is my opinion only, but it has worked well for me for many years, so I have no intention of changing anything. [/QUOTE]
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