barrel break in

[LoneWolfUSMC]

Re: barrel break in

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AZPrecision</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

The difference can be seen in cleaning during break in.

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I guess we now get into that whole "if a tree falls in the woods thing" because if I don't clean between shots during break in how do I tell if it's broken in?

Seriously though, you missed my point. If when I scope a barrel it looks good, and it's performing the way it should on target then what more would a break in have done for me? Ease of cleaning is a non-starter since many of us from this school of thought go quite a while between cleaning. I generally don't clean until I get past 500 rounds and even on a factory Remington tube it rarely takes more than three wet patches and three dry.

I truly believe the barrel "break in" is one of the biggest gun placebos ever.

Nothing more magical happens during your "break in" process of cleaning than does during my "shoot in" process of not cleaning. Both are allowing a bullet to knock the burrs out of the barrel.

I tell guys it's unnecessary on a factory barrel and even less on a custom tube. However if a guy gets more piece of mind from it, then rock on!

If it makes you feel good then do it. It really doesn't matter to me what you do to your own rifle.

 

[Whoshotya]

Re: barrel break in

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eddief</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm in the "fuck it" group...

I've done the break-in thing before and didn't see any benefit.
JMHO </div></div>

+1...
I don't care if I do spend $3000+ and 6 months wait...If your like me, and have 45 extra min. to spend at the range, it won't be swabbing the bore... It will be spitting pills downrange and learning my rifle. I'll swab the bore after the wife and kids are in bed. That's just me. I don't have a range in my back yard and sure don't seem to have the time some you seem to have. Besides that, at the end of the day who do you think the better marksman will be?

 

[Country]

Re: barrel break in

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LoneWolfUSMC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If I can't see any difference in the barrel and I can't see any difference on paper.....where should I see the difference?

I prefer economy of motion. </div></div>
How long is a piece of string? If you don't believe in something then don't do it . Everyone is looking for one simple rule to cover every barrel type , every make and quality and that will never happen.
If you consider the BR shooter that cleans after every 5 shots as compared to the hunter that may only clean after every say 50 or 100 shots from the very start then by comparison the 5 shot clean is a barrel breakin .

 

[rem308a3]

Re: barrel break in

I have a gap m40a3 and I did the break in that they recommended and found it easier to clean(meaning less fouling)then my gap m40a1 that I didn't break in. It doesn't take that long to do and it can't hurt. They both shoot the same just less cleaning on the m40a3.

 

[Whit]

Re: barrel break in

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Black Ops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Go out and shoot and enjoy yourself no need to waste your time trying to break in a barrel

But what would I know ?

<span style="font-weight: bold">Mike
Tac Ops</span>
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Yea, what do you know Mike LOL

 

[Keith Johns]

Re: barrel break in

I bet a good rifle will shoot good(better than I probably can shoot it), whether you break it in or not.

It makes me feel better. Like Im not being lazy about it. Maybe it doesnt matter

 

[Country]

Re: barrel break in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5whoLY5Y1c4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

 

[winxp_man]

Re: barrel break in

Man this thread is still going

just shoot and clean the copper out that's all that is needed. I don't want to go into depth and make it long. But when I get a new rifle I shoot and when I see copper I clean the copper out other than that its just Hoppe's 9 for the carbon and call it a day.

 

[gugubica]

Re: barrel break in

I won't get involved in the argument, I will just post my experience.

I am running a Kreiger on a 308, it had over 800 rounds since its last cleaning. When I used BBS I got only a faint streak of blue on the patch. Next to no copper fouling in over 800 rounds. I did not break in the barrel.

 

[winxp_man]

Re: barrel break in

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gugubica</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I won't get involved in the argument, I will just post my experience.

I am running a Kreiger on a 308, it had over 800 rounds since its last cleaning. When I used BBS I got only a faint streak of blue on the patch. Next to no copper fouling in over 800 rounds. I did not break in the barrel.</div></div>

That's how my AR-15 6.8 SPC Shilen barrel is not one speak of copper. Now a factory barrel will foul faster but to beak in I only did it to one .308 SPS and it was the last.