Barrel breakin

[buzzyb]

I have a new proof carbon barrel in 3oo win mag iam breaking in. Iam doing the 1 shot and clean for 5 shots. Iam on the 4 th shot I would like to know do you clean after each shot until no blue shows up on your patches. Iam using bore tec illiminater and I went thru 2 bags of patches. does this seem right. Thanks

 

[C.O. Shooter]

What is your patch jag made of? Brass or nickel?

 

[buzzyb]

Nickel

 

[C.O. Shooter]

What happens when you soak a patch and rub it on the jag, does it come out blue?

 

[buzzyb]

No

 

[C.O. Shooter]

What kind of rod are you using? If using a Tipton Rod, you have to discern if the patch is making contact with the end of the rod when evaluating your passed patch. I just soaked a patch with Eliminator and rubbed it on the end of the rod.

 

[buzzyb]

I do have a Tipton rod but the blue is on the very tip of the jag

 

[C.O. Shooter]

Hmmmm. Not having any real world experience with Proof Barrels, are they prone to be stubborn to clean?

 

[buzzyb]

Don't know my first one

 

[Tangent]

I also got my first Proof CF barrel last month. I'm not big on break-in, but I followed the Smith's recommendations for the first 100 rounds. My Proof cleans just as easy as all my bartleins and benchmarks.

 

[Orange Dust]

My Proof got very smooth after about 100rds. It will quit picking up much copper pretty quickly.

 

[ShtrRdy]

Sounds like you are doing an EXCELLENT job! I like to break in barrels but I don't believe its necessary to get ALL the copper out. What I mean by this is I'll look at the shade of blue I see on the patches. If it's a darker blue I keep cleaning but if it's a lighter blue then I'll proceed to shoot the next shot.

I limit the "fire one shot and clean" to 10 rounds. Then I'll start firing 3 shots and clean.

 

[Orange Dust]

Here's what I've been doing, it might be cheating, but it has been working for me. Shoot a round, run run one patch with Sweets. Wait 30 sec. Run another patch with sweets. Wait 30sec. Spray inside of barrel out with gunscrubber. Run a bore snake through it twice, shoot, repeat. Fire 10rds this way, then every three for 9 more. Then clean as needed. And, that is not very often. After the first 19 rounds I switch to HBN coated bullets. Been doing it this way for years. Hate cleaning guns, and it is working for me. Carbon makes me clean barrels, not copper.

 

[Rflshootr]

Are you forgetting to run an oil patch down the bore before firing the next shot? You have to have a thin coat of thin oil in the bore. Something like 3in1 oil is fine. Even after it's broken in, you should always oil the bore after cleaning.