Barrel Break In Time!

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Ya know, cleaning your rifle good between strings is like showerin' between workouts. Doubtful it makes us better athletes, but it sure can't hurt any.

:neener: Geno
 
Geno said:
Ya know, cleaning your rifle good between strings is like showerin' between workouts. Doubtful it makes us better athletes, but it sure can't hurt any.

:neener: Geno
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I disagree there

I've NEVER fired a group that started with a clean bore that was better than the subsiquent groups from a fouled tube.

If you don't want your poi, and accurcay to settle in and become predictible then by all means clean the pee out of your bbl obsessively.
 
The best barrel manufacturers in the world recommend a break-in of some extent.
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Here's what shilen thinks of bbl break in in general. The first two sentences say it all

How should I break-in my new Shilen barrel?
Break-in procedures are as diverse as cleaning techniques. Shilen, Inc. introduced a break-in procedure mostly because customers seemed to think that we should have one. By and large, we don't think breaking-in a new barrel is a big deal.
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http://www.shilen.com/faq.html#question10

BBL break in is like break in periods for a improperly functioning 1911 it simply gets you closer to either being out of warranty (as with the handgun) or closer to needing a new bbl (as in rifle tubes)
 
I clean a new bore to clean any manufacturing debris, then shoot.

After shooting it is likely I will oil the bore before putting away (to prevent rust) but not bother to clean it until at least a couple of shooting sessions have passed.
 
I'm "against" break in. If your rifle has "tooling" marks and "pits" the copper from your bullets will fill them in and essentially smooth out the bore. One could make an argument about the "high spots" but I doubt that after a hundred rounds of 60000PSI and 7000 degree momentary temps that those high spots will mean much. If they do, breaking in isn't going to help either.

Too much is mage of cleaning. You should only be cleaning excess debris out of the barrel. Not every last molecule. That's just a waste of time. And anything capable of eating copper, I would imagine can also eat steel sooner or later.

Just clean the excess crap out, swipe the bore and the rest of the gun with oil so it doesn't rust.

And apparently from what I have read in other threads, you can throw your Glock in a dishwasher. With a very small amount of soap, not the usual.
 
I'm "against" break in. If your rifle has "tooling" marks and "pits" the copper from your bullets will fill them in and essentially smooth out the bore.
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Once again, whether you do barrel break-in or not, you should know that barrel break-in is not done to smooth out the barrel (bore and grooves) per se, it is done to smooth out the leade which will have tooling marks on even the finest hand lapped barrel.

Don
 
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