do I need to break in my barrel???

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You do not need a break in your barrel, you will have to replace it if you get one.
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You sure do, go ahead and know out a thousand rounds through it in as short a time as your budget will allow. Get familiar with it. Put rounds downrange. That is all the break in you will need.
 
Barrels need no break in period as they have no moving parts. Barrels only wear out as you use them and the rifling wears down. Some auto loading actions need a break in period for the moving metal parts to "learn" how to work together.
 
Ah' has been shooting ma' guns for a long, long time - and none of the barrels have broke yet. I don't think that breaking in works, and it cost a whole lot of money buying ammunition too boot. :D
 
Somebody will be along shortly with a link to Gale McMillan's posts on the topic.

IMHO, not only "no", but "hell no".

I don't object if a supplier believes it's needed and proceeds to do it on their own dime (Dakota) but if they think I need to do it they are cordially invited to provide me with the ammo and equipment they feel are needed... and pay me for my wasted time.

There is no more certain method of assuring that I won't buy a product than to put a "mandatory break-in" requirement in their literature.
 
On a precision bolt rifle, I've done it with some, but I honestly think ten rounds, slow-fired, cleaned and cooled in between is going to do 99% of the good that the same process as 100 rounds will. The idea is to burnish the bore while not letting it heat up to full temperature.

On handguns,....no. You're not looking to smooth out microscopic flaws and burrs in the rifling. I did stop my dad, when we were shooting the new Single-Six I got him for father's day, he was about to start shooting it right out of the box, I told him we wanted to run some Hoppe's soaked brushes down the barrel first to clean out whatever preservative was in the barrel. As he looked a little sheepish, I realized he's probably never bought a new gun before, he never thought of it. :)
 
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Thank you all for the info. Dont mind putting rounds down range thats what its for but the break in seemed rediculous to me.
 
Barrel break in.

36. “Breaking in” a rifle barrel is probably just a waste of time. Some barrel makers recommend it while others do not which demonstrates a lack of universal agreement on whether it’s really necessary so it probably is not. Every formula for break in involves some combination of firing and cleaning. The fact that there are numerous different formulas should be evidence that nobody really has the definitive answer on the best procedure meaning there likely isn’t one. Simply shooting the rifle as intended will likely be all the break in that is required.
 
You don't NEED to break in a barrel, but fire at least 100 rounds to make sure your firearm is functioning properly.
 
if you own a general production gun, NO. but, if it is an autoloader, you may want to give it 100 rounds or so for the mechanism to break in. but, if you have a super high dollar custom target gun, then, it might be worthwhile. on a side note to this, if the barrel is just plain rough (deep machining marks) you may want to consider useing something like the David Tubbs Final Finish System. it is a specific amount of ammo (or bullets if you reload) that have a abrasive compound imbedded into the bullet. it polishes the bore by shooting the rounds. they start out with a coarse compound, and work their way finer. if your bore looks fine, you probably will not need this, but i had one that looked like it was made with a chisel (of course i am exagerating), and it helped a bunch!
 
I do a five shot break-in cleaning after each shot then 5 shots and one clean then whenever I'm done shooting. Quick, easy, cheap and makes me feel better. Just figure it might help burnish the barrrel a bit more in case of any rough spots. Never with a handgun though. A hundred shot break-in? I'd go insane.
 
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