Just another mould..or two.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

You are absolutely right about shooting in as close to match conditions as possible at home, but I see load development as a different case all together. I have tested, refined and tested again my fouling control under match conditions at home and in matches. I do not believe I am giving anything up by using a different fouling control method in my winter time shooting. Most of my match shooting has been in somewhat warmer temps than this winter shooting and that probably has a bigger affect than how I'm wiping as long as both methods yeild the same clean as a whistle bore that they do.

When things warm up and the ground isn't frozen as hard as a rock I'll be laying down with my rifle on the sticks and have everything set up just like I do at a match and I'll run a timer and refine things to work in match conditions, but for now in these below freezing temps and with the ground covered in snow I do things just a bit different. YMMV