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<blockquote data-quote="STEEL SLINGER" data-source="post: 1079061" data-attributes="member: 42414"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">I recently have stepped into the inline muzzleloading realm with both feet. Coming from shooting a T/C Renegade for the last 25+/- years with iron sights and being happy with 3" groups at 100 yards to shooting a scoped T/C Encore and punching 1 ¼" or less groups at 100 yards -AND- increasing my effective range to 200 yards has me pretty excited! So now I'm into a new learning curve. I have noticed that when I shoot from a clean bore/barrel that my first 4 shots are not at the POI that I had at the last session, but after that fourth shot things start to tighten up and come back into place. Today I did a little experimenting. From a clean bore I ran 2 patches soaked with brake cleaned to remove all the oils from the barrel and then I ran 3 dry patches, loaded and shot 3 times, then cleaned as usual and repeated the process for a total of 15 shots. My group of 15 shots was about 2 ½" bottom right from the x-ring in a 4" outside to outside group. This is not acceptable! ! ! After cleaning my gun I cannot go pull off 4 rounds somewhere before I go hunting. So I did a little reading and see where some folks are popping caps to foul the barrel and this is taking care of their problem. How is this so? I can't see how a few primer caps would create enough residue in the barrel to make your bullets fly true again. What am I missing? I would like to know from you guys that are "in the know" or shoot competitively, what you do to overcome this issue.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Just a little insight; I'm shooting Blackhorn 209 powder, saboted bullets, CCI 209M primers. I clean my barrel with the same solvents as my center fire cartridges and in the same manner (no soap and water with this one), the only thing different is I've tried the brake cleaner to remove oils from the bore.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Thoughts, opinions, helpful advice is greatly appreciated. lightbulb</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STEEL SLINGER, post: 1079061, member: 42414"] [FONT=Calibri]I recently have stepped into the inline muzzleloading realm with both feet. Coming from shooting a T/C Renegade for the last 25+/- years with iron sights and being happy with 3” groups at 100 yards to shooting a scoped T/C Encore and punching 1 ¼” or less groups at 100 yards -AND- increasing my effective range to 200 yards has me pretty excited! So now I’m into a new learning curve. I have noticed that when I shoot from a clean bore/barrel that my first 4 shots are not at the POI that I had at the last session, but after that fourth shot things start to tighten up and come back into place. Today I did a little experimenting. From a clean bore I ran 2 patches soaked with brake cleaned to remove all the oils from the barrel and then I ran 3 dry patches, loaded and shot 3 times, then cleaned as usual and repeated the process for a total of 15 shots. My group of 15 shots was about 2 ½” bottom right from the x-ring in a 4” outside to outside group. This is not acceptable! ! ! After cleaning my gun I cannot go pull off 4 rounds somewhere before I go hunting. So I did a little reading and see where some folks are popping caps to foul the barrel and this is taking care of their problem. How is this so? I can’t see how a few primer caps would create enough residue in the barrel to make your bullets fly true again. What am I missing? I would like to know from you guys that are “in the know” or shoot competitively, what you do to overcome this issue.[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri]Just a little insight; I’m shooting Blackhorn 209 powder, saboted bullets, CCI 209M primers. I clean my barrel with the same solvents as my center fire cartridges and in the same manner (no soap and water with this one), the only thing different is I’ve tried the brake cleaner to remove oils from the bore.[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri]Thoughts, opinions, helpful advice is greatly appreciated. lightbulb[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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