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Accuracy lost on warmer weather
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2848542" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>I have never heard of any issues with cold or frozen ammo, however super heated ammo is a different story. Many years ago we were shooting across the National Match Course at the Racine County Line Range on an extremely hot day, if I remember the temperature was close to 100, which is odd for this part of the country. We were shooting the 600 yard prone stage, 20 shots, with 2 sighters within 22 minutes. There was a civilian shooter to my left shooting a Remington 700 and doing quite well. He was shooting reloads and his rifle seemed to really like the ammo. When we went to 600 yards he had some different ammo that he used for 600 yards. He went to his car, took the long range ammo out of the trunk of a car that had been sitting in the Sun at close to 100 degrees and took it to the firing line and got in position. When we were given the OK to shoot when he fired his first sighter his rifle blew up. Fortunately he only suffered minor injuries. Cold ammo is not a problem however one might be a bit cautious when shooting, as many of us do in extreme heat, especially if pushing the pressure limits with our reloads. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2848542, member: 118816"] I have never heard of any issues with cold or frozen ammo, however super heated ammo is a different story. Many years ago we were shooting across the National Match Course at the Racine County Line Range on an extremely hot day, if I remember the temperature was close to 100, which is odd for this part of the country. We were shooting the 600 yard prone stage, 20 shots, with 2 sighters within 22 minutes. There was a civilian shooter to my left shooting a Remington 700 and doing quite well. He was shooting reloads and his rifle seemed to really like the ammo. When we went to 600 yards he had some different ammo that he used for 600 yards. He went to his car, took the long range ammo out of the trunk of a car that had been sitting in the Sun at close to 100 degrees and took it to the firing line and got in position. When we were given the OK to shoot when he fired his first sighter his rifle blew up. Fortunately he only suffered minor injuries. Cold ammo is not a problem however one might be a bit cautious when shooting, as many of us do in extreme heat, especially if pushing the pressure limits with our reloads. o_O [/QUOTE]
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