Yeah, very possible and remember especially with shorter and thinner barrels they can heat up VERY quickly. If your doing your own load dev , in my opinion don't even start dev till its had 50 down the tube. On all my savage barrels except the rare one that was smooth as glass on the bore , I would break in 5 shot groups, i would shoot 5 over a long period, about 15 min, wet patch, 5 strokes with nylon brush then a couple dry patches. Didn't really document against a control barrel that I didn't do that on but after about 50-100 rounds it seems like they would settle alot tighter
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