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How is your cold bore shot different?
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Eichele" data-source="post: 253867" data-attributes="member: 1007"><p>Foul shots and cold bore shots are 2 different animals. Yes a foul shot WILL be different from the rest of the shots and is of little concern since we never clean a rifle and shoot one shot and repeat. No we clean, foul and enjoy the rest of the time we dont need to be cleaning.</p><p></p><p>As for a cold bore shot. This is a shot from a cold bore even if it is fouled. Some will produce more and some less. Some barrels just wont yield to it much and others will. You can minimize it by shooting short heavy barrels in medium calibers but it still depends on an idavidual barrel. You can see it in a factory tube, you can see it in a custom tube. In my experiance good custom barrels are typically better than factory but I have also seen some factory barrels with minimal effects. A 24" 308 win barrel of a heavy contour will typically have much less cold bore whip than a 28" sporter weight barrel chambered in 30-378. The colder it gets the more the effects.</p><p></p><p>If you want to test your own, you will need to leave your rifle outside or in your vehicle for a couple of hours and let it get really cold. Then go to the range and fire a 3 shot group. If your first shot is out of the group, this is the effects of the cold bore shot. If it isnt, it either isnt cold enough to affect your barrel or your barrel shows minimal signs of the affects or both.</p><p></p><p>Also, there is no way to know if they will be higher. I have had predictable rifles and rifles that could put the CBS anywhere, some even off the paper at 200M in moderate temps. I dont own that stick anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Eichele, post: 253867, member: 1007"] Foul shots and cold bore shots are 2 different animals. Yes a foul shot WILL be different from the rest of the shots and is of little concern since we never clean a rifle and shoot one shot and repeat. No we clean, foul and enjoy the rest of the time we dont need to be cleaning. As for a cold bore shot. This is a shot from a cold bore even if it is fouled. Some will produce more and some less. Some barrels just wont yield to it much and others will. You can minimize it by shooting short heavy barrels in medium calibers but it still depends on an idavidual barrel. You can see it in a factory tube, you can see it in a custom tube. In my experiance good custom barrels are typically better than factory but I have also seen some factory barrels with minimal effects. A 24" 308 win barrel of a heavy contour will typically have much less cold bore whip than a 28" sporter weight barrel chambered in 30-378. The colder it gets the more the effects. If you want to test your own, you will need to leave your rifle outside or in your vehicle for a couple of hours and let it get really cold. Then go to the range and fire a 3 shot group. If your first shot is out of the group, this is the effects of the cold bore shot. If it isnt, it either isnt cold enough to affect your barrel or your barrel shows minimal signs of the affects or both. Also, there is no way to know if they will be higher. I have had predictable rifles and rifles that could put the CBS anywhere, some even off the paper at 200M in moderate temps. I dont own that stick anymore. [/QUOTE]
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