"I cleaned the rifle barrel after every five shots, and between when I used different types of ammo."
That could be part of your problem. Some, if not all barrels need to be "seasoned" after cleaning. To get a barrel shooting right again can take as tqo or three shots to as many as ten. I take my load work ups very seriously. I'f I'm starting out with a totally clean to the metal barrel, I'll run off about five shots with some left over ammo to foul the bore.
and let the barrel cook down. Then I run my shot strings giving about a two minute weight between shots if It's a cool ca, On hot day I can wait as long as 10 minutes between shots to get decent results. In my particular neck of the desert it's either do it like I do or don't shoot at all. Why? Because I've done more than a few desert Mule Deer and a couple of Coues deer hunt and the temps run anywhere from maybe 70 early in the morning to near 100 by dusk. You learn to skin and gut quickly if you want to save the meat.
for spits and grins, let's say you work up a load in 90 degree weather. Maybe it goes below freezing on the hunt. I did the final sight check here in Tucson at 95 degrees. When I got to New Mexico, Raton to be exact for and elk hunt I double checked my sights at the NRA rnge and they didn't need ant tweaking. Two hours into the hunt on the private ranch where I was hunting I had a nice fat juicy cow elk on the ground.
From load work to hunt finish that rifle and the back up rifle I brought just in case never got cleaned until the day after I got home and the meat in the freezer. The guns are just fine. FWIW, a custom Mauser in .35 Whelen running 225 gr.TSX and a custom Mauser in 30-06 as back up running the 165 gr. Nosler AccuBond..
PJ
That could be part of your problem. Some, if not all barrels need to be "seasoned" after cleaning. To get a barrel shooting right again can take as tqo or three shots to as many as ten. I take my load work ups very seriously. I'f I'm starting out with a totally clean to the metal barrel, I'll run off about five shots with some left over ammo to foul the bore.
and let the barrel cook down. Then I run my shot strings giving about a two minute weight between shots if It's a cool ca, On hot day I can wait as long as 10 minutes between shots to get decent results. In my particular neck of the desert it's either do it like I do or don't shoot at all. Why? Because I've done more than a few desert Mule Deer and a couple of Coues deer hunt and the temps run anywhere from maybe 70 early in the morning to near 100 by dusk. You learn to skin and gut quickly if you want to save the meat.
for spits and grins, let's say you work up a load in 90 degree weather. Maybe it goes below freezing on the hunt. I did the final sight check here in Tucson at 95 degrees. When I got to New Mexico, Raton to be exact for and elk hunt I double checked my sights at the NRA rnge and they didn't need ant tweaking. Two hours into the hunt on the private ranch where I was hunting I had a nice fat juicy cow elk on the ground.
From load work to hunt finish that rifle and the back up rifle I brought just in case never got cleaned until the day after I got home and the meat in the freezer. The guns are just fine. FWIW, a custom Mauser in .35 Whelen running 225 gr.TSX and a custom Mauser in 30-06 as back up running the 165 gr. Nosler AccuBond..
PJ
