Marlin 1894 barrel break in?

[emilianoksa]

Can the revolver calibre version of this rifle be treated like a handgun out of the box? ie. Do I just need to clean the factory grease from the barrel, and then start shooting?

Or does it need breaking in, with cleaning after every shot up to a certain number of rounds, like other center fire rifle barrels?

I'm talking about the 357/38 sp version only, and because I live in Peru, I'd only be shooting 38 sp out of it. Magnum rounds are unavailable for civilians here.

I'd appreciate your advice.

 

[Al Thompson]

Clean it and shoot the heck out of it. .38 Special is slow enough that copper won't be an issue.

 

[emilianoksa]

Thanks.

 

[Badlander]

Can you load your own Magnum loads?

 

[emilianoksa]

No.

As far as I know, reloading is not possible here.

I have never seen the ingredients for sale.

 

[Badlander]

Is it not legal? Can you order the primers, powder,etc?

 

[Sheepdog1968]

To date I've never bothered to break in any barrel on any rifle and I've never noticed any detrimental effects. It's somewhat contraversial if there really needs to be a break in. On my Marlin 336, I probably shot about 300 rounds (the Hornady Leverevolution copper jacketed bullets) through it right out of the box and then cleaned. it. All looked fine. At times I've gotten 2 MOA (1" at 50 yards) with a low power scope on it from this lever action. That starts to approach my limits and likely the limit of the rifle.

 

[gdesloge]

I asked this question in regard to handgun barrel break-in. Maybe some of the responses will be helpful for you.


http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=525681&highlight=break-in


gd

 

[emilianoksa]

Thanks for the link.