Razmuz,
Actually, I had a different exeperience. It may be a fluke, but I'll share it nonetheless.
Some years ago, I was hunting in Bandera, Texas - a small town outside of San Antonio. At the time, I was using my uncle's Remington BDL in .270 Winchester. I can't remember what ammo I was using, but I do remember that it was zeroed in at 100 yards.
It was about the middle of November and that day was especially hot - about 82 degrees. In any event, we had been warned that a very strong cold front was coming down and that Oklahoma had been hit very hard with snow, sleet, and ice. Well, we thought that by the time the front came down to us, it would have fizzled out - big mistake. :roll:
I was in a hunting in the afternoon in ground blind wearing shorts and a T-shirt. Like I said, it started out being about 82 degrees. Within about 2 hours, the temp plummeted to about 30 degrees! :eek: Later that night, the temp got down to about the low teens.
The next morning I remember that themometer reading 12 degrees. The ground was covered in ice. The trucks were sliding all over the place, so we walked about a mile to the blinds.
More relevant to the issue at hand, I spotted a doe at about 100 yards. I aimed at the neck - right behind the ear, where I normally aim on a doe, pulled the trigger, and the doe took of like lightning. Very unusual. :? I couldn't have missed.
Well, I went back to the 100 yard shooting range that was on the ranch and checked my point of aim. Guess what? My shot was about 3 inches low, and about 2 inches to the left of the bulls eye! :eek:
Now, was it the wooden stock? Was it the ammo? (I have been told that ammo looses velocity in colder climates).
I can understand a loss in velocity, but a 3" drop? Besides, the cold weather doesn't pull a shot to the left or right. As such, I think that it was because of the stock.
On a related note, a similar event happened to me another year, but I was shooting a Remington Sendero with the HS Precision stock. The gun still shot at the same POI (point of impact).
Again, perhaps my experience was a fluke, but, then again, perhaps it wasn't. Then again, we are talking about extreme temperature changes in very short periods of time.
Zachary
