Cool thanks. Will just shoot it. Need to practise so will just find some space and pop away. Shoots pretty good ATM just the odd flier im sure will get better.
This is an important factor. A quality barrel can be shot hot with little effect on grouping. As to wear, as I was once told, "If you worry about shooting out your barrel, leave the dammed thing in the cabinet. It's gonna happen!"~Muirgo Google grain growth in stainless steel welds and then apply science to the benchrest bull and you will quickly work out that the hottest a rifle gets is when you squeeze the trigger and the throat being a sharpish edge gets the most heat as soon as the bullet has gone the temp is lower, shoot again and the temp is right up there due to the thing going bang again and the erosion process will start again it is round count that kills barrels. Barrel temp will affect fouling of the barrel and accuracy if the barrel has been machined, heat treated or stressed incorrectly It is a bit more in depth than this but this is the jist of it i could write a paper for research that would cover it but i can not be -rsed at present
This is an important factor. A quality barrel can be shot hot with little effect on grouping. As to wear, as I was once told, "If you worry about shooting out your barrel, leave the dammed thing in the cabinet. It's gonna happen!"~Muir
Many people zero their rifle and put it up. That works OK if you shoot from sticks, bipods, or any other kind of rest. Unfortunately, where I live you generally shoot standing unsupported ("off hand") and that requires constant practice. I enjoy shooting my hunting rifles -my main two being T3;s in 308 and 7-08, set up identically right down to the weight of pull. The 308 is cheaper to shoot so I shoot it more, but I tend to work them both. Sometimes I fire just three practice rounds and come home. Sometimes i fire twenty and more. If I'm eating barrel I haven't been able to tell and I've been at these two for three and four years now. In any event, it's a necessary evil. Some years I have only license for 1 deer so I need to make the shot. This year it was two so I needed to make two shots with no excuses for bad marksmanship. In my case, at least, the barrel is a consumable item like bullets and primers. When it goes, I'll deal with it but, until then, I keep shooting.~MuirThis is absolutely true, but my view is there's no real need to accelerate the process with your hunting rifle, unless of course you really do want to shoot lots of rounds for fun/pleasure, rather than just being sure your ammunition works and the rifle is zeroed & fit for purpose.
Just my thoughts.