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Breaking in a brand new M1A

L Rocha

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Jun 4, 2008
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Ok boys and girls I finaly got my my first M1A and it hasn't been shot yet. Matter of factly I just got it yesterday. Now I have a question about the ammunition that I am going to use. It is surplus ammo. Yes its pretty old but I got it for free so I'm not going to complain.
I was wondering if this is good enough to break in my rifle? If not please explain why.
 
Re: Breaking in a brand new M1A

After the first 100 rounds, remove your and bolt (just pop the oprod, don't dismount from the stock) and degrease EVERYTHING, including/especially the op rod locking/unlocking surfaces.

Take a Q-Tip and degrease the camming surfaces on your hammer.

Go shoot 10 rounds and see whether it still works.

If it does, fine. Lightly lube and fire as needed.

If not, lightly lube and then repeat the dry shooting every 100 rounds until you can fire 10 from the mag and get full cycling, including bolt lockback.

THEN you'll know if the rifle is broken in.

Oh, talking about BARREL break-in? Other than cleaning the bore thoroughly after the first 10-20 rounds, and then at least once more during the next 100 rounds, I just don't believe in it.
 
Re: Breaking in a brand new M1A

In the M1A, I think you'd do more harm running that cleaning rod up the muzzle then any itsy bitsy improvement you "may" get from that shoot one/clean one routine.
 
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