Comments on: Hunting Tip: How to Plot Your Cold Bore Point of Impact

By: mark

mark — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:26:37 +0000

fouling shot before hunt…

By: Mark223

Mark223 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 02:33:50 +0000

A very effective solution, as suggested in the article, is to fire one fouling shot after cleaning the bore well as usual. In my area, this can usually be done somewhere along the way to the shoot or the hunt.

By: ian

ian — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:48:31 +0000

The group on that clean gun is so poor, how can you reliably tell?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:54:03 +0000

I have not had issues with cold bore shots after using Patch-Out.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:36:40 +0000

I use boron in alcohol to coat the bore after cleaning. The first shot is within 1/2″ of the group in my factory guns.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:08:00 +0000

My solution is to clean bore to metal & after a wash with alcohol, dry burnish in WS2. I store all my bores dry like this.
With cold-bore load development, and this pre-fouling, my 1st shot can be counted on as good as any further.

By: skeetshot

skeetshot — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:41:29 +0000

As correctly surmised, the first shot from a clean cold barrel prints differently.

I experimented for a long while to come up with some product which I could “treat” my bore with after cleaning and oiling it, which would allow me to maintain the same/very close to the same zero as my fouled barrel.

After much experimenting, I found that PROLIX did just that. I understand that if left for a long while Prolix can cause some rust, but if it is used a little before firing, the benefit of the same zero is for all to experiment with in their rifles.

Thank You