Black rock squirrels are the scourge here, little bastards have a taste for electrical wire insulation and will eat the wiring out of trailers, ranch jeeps, and any other vehicle. I made a lot of money rebuilding wiring harnesses eaten by them when I was an auto tech.
@RicinYakima , ditch that hard, sticky lube and go back to 50/50 beeswax and Vaseline. What your barrel and load wants is a soft lube that doesn't congeal hard in the bore and has less friction. I'd wipe out the barrel with Ed's Red and then smear a little 50/50 on a patch and jog that through, then wipe out with a clean patch and clean the chamber, then try the new lube on your next outing. If it still throws the first shot wild you may add 1/2 part plain paraffin to the lube which will make the cold film more slippery and not affect the warm barrel friction characteristics much.
When dealing with first shot flyer syndrome (never going to get around it completely), the idea is to keep barrel friction the same throughout the temperature range. I developed a wear tester and a friction measuring device that would give an indication of the cold, warm, and hot friction characteristics of individual lube ingredients and blends. When you're trying to figure out lube viscosity/flow/smear characteristics and film or boundary lubrication characteristics at various temperatures the variables get insanely complicated, but that's where simple shooting tests come in.