Cooking a round?

[Shooter13]

During your string of shooting and you have a wind change or something that causes you to stop shooting do leave that round in and fire it for a sighter or when the conditions come back just shoot? How long will you leave it in a hot chamber?

 

[chromatica]

In F-class competition, you are required to single load. During a match, I line up my shot before closing the bolt. If for any reason I don't fire within about 10 seconds, I will eject the round and start again with a new one. It is not good to let a round cook in the chamber for a long time.

 

[rardoin]

Hell, being a cajun I thought this thread was about a new recipe!?!?

Carry on…

 

[rardoin]

Seriously though, I do as @chromatica does. I’ve never tested firing a chamber heated round vs a round straight out of the loading block; I’ve just emulated what I saw the more experienced shooters do.

 

[jimmymac]

I never remove it. I am so far into the lands that removing it is a recipe for disaster.

 

[JEFFPPC]

I never remove it. I am so far into the lands that removing it is a recipe for I have never used it as an excuse as a picker, but it could be a good excuse. Like jimmymac, its not an option for me and I have never thought it to be a problem. Maybe in the deelp South or West with higher ambiant temperatures it could factor in.

 

[rardoin]

During our summer matches on the gulf coast, I’ll put a round in the chamber early to cool it off!

 

[LHSmith]

If I am into the lands, I throw one away into the dirt backstop after it may have sit in the chamber for around 30 seconds. Cheap insurance.

 

[IAm_Not_Lost]

I am completely new to this...but if my barrel is fairly warm/hot, and I'm really trying to test a loads velocity, or long-range precision (but it's not so hot I want to take a long break to cool down), then I don't leave a round in the chamber while I get on target.

I can't say that I've noticed any true difference shot to shot when a round gets left in a warm/hot chamber, but cool or warm weather certainly makes a difference in my velocity, so I assume that a bullet that goes from 70 degrees to about 120 degrees could also make a difference.

 

[Mastershot]

Never close the bolt unless your are going to shoot. I will never allow my ammo to cook while I look.

 

[clowdis]

If I am into the lands, I throw one away into the dirt backstop after it may have sit in the chamber for around 30 seconds. Cheap insurance.

In most places that would count as a miss unless it was cleared via your scorer.

 

[jimmymac]

Never close the bolt unless your are going to shoot. I will never allow my ammo to cook while I look.

I have closed the bolt countless times prepared to shoot, only to have the condition change and get forced to stop.

 

[JEFFPPC]

In most places that would count as a miss unless it was cleared via your scorer.

Not at any shoots I go to.

 

[johnnyi]

If you cook a round… you will not like the result. Especially important starting from cold clean barrel and fouling and getting barrel stable and ready to go to record.

 

[RGRobinett]

I have closed the bolt countless times prepared to shoot, only to have the condition change and get forced to stop.

Jim, real men just hold-off and shoot! "There's no stopping in run-n'-gun . . ."RG

 

[Jennb]

Test your powder during those conditions and know the answer. Powder choice would be a big deciding factor! Some powders cook better than others!

 

[ebb]

My friend that taught me to shoot and reload calls this Bakin a Biscuit. It is tough to be watching the wind and conditions and have him walk by and real quite say "ya bakin a biscuit?"

 

[R.Morehouse]

If I see a switch and I have one chambered (SR-BR) I dump it on the sighter then throw one on the ramp while watching conditions. Many times it is easier said than done.

Regards
Rick

 

[davidjoe]

If you cook a round… you will not like the result. Especially important starting from cold clean barrel and fouling and getting barrel stable and ready to go to record.

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Johnny, I look at that target another way, if you had taken two sighters and gone for record, you would have had a 200-15X instead of a 199-13.

As importantly, you’d have 6 more bullets, about 9 dollars of powder, and 16 dollars of primers unused, too .

 

[rardoin]

I never remove it. I am so far into the lands that removing it is a recipe for disaster.

I must confess....I am slow...I saw what you did there. Well played!