Seasoning a new rifle

[mike33]

As i stated earlier i feel its very important. I would say there are a lot of excellant shooting guns out there being sold that just need a good cleaning. I first come on to cleaning and barrel break in in the late 80's reading a catalog from Fred Sinclair. Fred's catalog was more of a instructional book than a catalog, he went over every item of how and why to do. As soon as i read thru i grabbed the phone and started ordering dewey rods, solvents, bore guide, etc. As a regular every day hunter ah clean the gun inside every 5 years was okey. Ever since i have done the the single shot clean method as mentioned from the other posts and worked well.
Mike

[yobuck]

there are other threads here where this has been discussed at legnth.
as i recall shawn carlock dosent break in barrels. dosent clean them much either.
i have several friends who have been top competetors at williamsport, and they never break them in.
im of the opinion that damage can be caused by cleaning if not done properly. i dont expect my barrels need worry much about that.

[Longshot38]

I have never broke in a barrel and never will. On the other hand I know others that do it religiously. If you get a good quality hand lapped barrel in the first place breaking in shouldn't have to be done. As for the fouling issue. It is more in depth then just the bore. What bullet your running has just as much to do with fouling as your bore does.

[squirrelduster]

I recently purchased a new Savage 7wsm and I am not a believer in the barrel break in process. I clean real well when new then shoot a couple rounds and clean again.
After finishing load development after approx. 30 rounds I have a rifle that shoots 168 gr Berger VLD's into .380" and 140 gr accubonds into .502.
Not bad for limited load development and no break in. I have a new trigger on the way and I think that may help a little.
I was cleaning my 300 win mag. barrel way too much and getting it way too clean. I spoke with Bob at R.W. Hart and he helped me with the the problems I was having. It takes 8 to 10 rounds for the 300 to really start to shoot after you clean it good. The first couple of groups are in the 1 1/2 inch range and after getting it a little dirty they are around 1/2 inch.
Do a little experiment and shoot a group with a clean barrel. Then shoot 20 rounds. Shoot another group and I would bet the second group is better.
Keep us posted with the results.
SD

[mike33]

When i was shooting bench rest everyone would clean after every match ( 5 rounds on record and how many on lower sighter target). Going in to the next match you would shoot a few on sighter to dirty barrel before you would go up stairs on the record target. I have 2 previous posts, pro break in cleaning and will not post any more. I think if you believe in it do, if you dont believe in it dont do it. In reality who really cares what someone else does with there gun.
Mike