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<blockquote data-quote="nicholasjohn" data-source="post: 1621031" data-attributes="member: 109113"><p>I have an old Browning Safari grade rifle in .308. It does this ALL the time, and it does it so reliably that I have made it SOP to shoot two rounds down range before walking down to hang a target. By the time I get back to the bench, the skinny little barrel is cool enough to shoot a group to check point of impact. Then I either dial the scope to my standard sight-in for a 200-yard zero, or if that isn't necessary I just go hunt with the rifle. I want to make sure that t's sighted in for a cold barrel with no oil in the bore. That's the way it will be when the deer shows up on the scene. It will get cleaned after deer season is over. I realize that in a wet climate this could be hard on a barrel, but that's why they make more barrels. </p><p></p><p>I bore scoped the gun several years ago, and it looks like the surface of the moon in there. Must be from having no oil in the bore for a couple of weeks every year, but it still shoots three-shot groups where all three holes are touching each other. Kills deer like crazy, too. If I planned to live another fifty years, I'd also plan on re-barreling this gun at some point. At the rate I shoot it, though, if it has another hundred rounds of useful life in it that would be about ten more years of deer hunting for me. ( I use other rifles for other purposes, and this is my dedicated PA deer rifle.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasjohn, post: 1621031, member: 109113"] I have an old Browning Safari grade rifle in .308. It does this ALL the time, and it does it so reliably that I have made it SOP to shoot two rounds down range before walking down to hang a target. By the time I get back to the bench, the skinny little barrel is cool enough to shoot a group to check point of impact. Then I either dial the scope to my standard sight-in for a 200-yard zero, or if that isn't necessary I just go hunt with the rifle. I want to make sure that t's sighted in for a cold barrel with no oil in the bore. That's the way it will be when the deer shows up on the scene. It will get cleaned after deer season is over. I realize that in a wet climate this could be hard on a barrel, but that's why they make more barrels. I bore scoped the gun several years ago, and it looks like the surface of the moon in there. Must be from having no oil in the bore for a couple of weeks every year, but it still shoots three-shot groups where all three holes are touching each other. Kills deer like crazy, too. If I planned to live another fifty years, I'd also plan on re-barreling this gun at some point. At the rate I shoot it, though, if it has another hundred rounds of useful life in it that would be about ten more years of deer hunting for me. ( I use other rifles for other purposes, and this is my dedicated PA deer rifle.) [/QUOTE]
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