stagpanther
New member
I've come full circle--after years of shooting my 44 carbine with a scope I decided to ditch it--just too hard to keep a constant zero and was ungainly relative the top ejection port.
So I put my skinner peep and front sight back on--and I'm shooting well enough for me to use it for hunting in the brush--today I took a batch of 265 interlocks driven by 22 grs of w296 and after a couple of shots I was grouping within a few inches of POA at 50 yds--which for me with my old out of focus eyes is very good.
But the first 2 shots were maybe 6 and then 4 inches low. This was with a freshly cleaned and lubed bore and chamber--I'm wondering if the bore "needs some fouling" in order to settle down to shooting consistently--though it could also be me as well, naturally. How often do you guys clean--and most importantly--how do you prepare for that "one and only first cold bore shot" while hunting?
So I put my skinner peep and front sight back on--and I'm shooting well enough for me to use it for hunting in the brush--today I took a batch of 265 interlocks driven by 22 grs of w296 and after a couple of shots I was grouping within a few inches of POA at 50 yds--which for me with my old out of focus eyes is very good.
But the first 2 shots were maybe 6 and then 4 inches low. This was with a freshly cleaned and lubed bore and chamber--I'm wondering if the bore "needs some fouling" in order to settle down to shooting consistently--though it could also be me as well, naturally. How often do you guys clean--and most importantly--how do you prepare for that "one and only first cold bore shot" while hunting?