And another excellent post there, sir.
Certainly a change of clothing type/thickness can change the cheek weld and hold position. With springers so sensitive with so much mechanical goings on then clothes changes from session to session can't help.
On temperature then metal is going to expand and contract. That goes for the scope and mounts. Heck, woodwork can behave differently.
Every small change with a rifle will soon mount up to show at the other end. However, I suspect large errors are more about the bod behind the rifle. Now I am older I have to spend a lot more effort in sorting my life out when shooting for raw accuracy than when I was younger.
With springers then I watch for the follow through picture, and where it is pointing after the recoil. Sometimes I can see that the rifle shoots to where it ends up pointing, rather than where I think I aimed. Those pellets sure do take an age to get out of those barrels. It really is the case of finding a first shot repeatable hold and let off. Sure it can be found three shots down the line but thats a bit late when hunting. Not switching rifles all the time helps.
All the above are reason I only shoot springers now to farmyard ranges and not beyond. When I was younger I generally had one gun, and then got good with it, and did shoot a good bit further.
Fault finding is part of the fun of springers. A completely "sorted" combo can be a bit dull without taking it to a competition.
And another excellent post there, sir.
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I think the more "seasoned" springer shooters "feel" their way around this, Al? What I often tend to do is pull the rifle in quite firmly and then relax the hold into the human cradle / sledge. Different garments certainly won't help, especially loads of layers under a bulky coat in really cold conditions. As well as having an effect on the recoil pattern, that extra thickness will also slightly alter the length of pull and balance, to a degree, especially when shooting from different positions. I suppose modern "technical" fabrics will help in this regard, reducing bulk? I don't hunt these days or shoot FT or HFT, so don't tend to shoot in these more extreme conditions. I'm sure those that do could chip in with very valuable input.
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I always fire off 8-10 pellets before I start looking at targets gets internals warmed up then to the zero plate then targets