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<blockquote data-quote="devildoc" data-source="post: 174436" data-attributes="member: 5615"><p>I'd have to agree with the crowd on this one. Just from a conceptual standpoint it only seems reasonable that the barrel will lap out quicker if you keep it down to bare metal. What exactly are you using for your indicator in the bore that barrel break in didn't work? Unless you can see whether or not the bearing surfaces of the bore are smoother or not and since we're talking about a microscopic level here I doubt you can. </p><p></p><p>Of course with using wipeout it is hard to tell whether cleanup is easier or not, but back when we were all using Sweets and ME, it's pretty easy to tell that after a couple shots of cleaning between shots you weren't getting much blue on your patch anymore. I doubt you can quantify how much copper fouling is in the barrel via borescope, the surface area of the bore that is copper washed doesn't tell you how deep it is, and I would expect that it varies very little with relation to how much copper is there. Though, I have never used a borescope and am therefore making the sin of assumptions here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="devildoc, post: 174436, member: 5615"] I'd have to agree with the crowd on this one. Just from a conceptual standpoint it only seems reasonable that the barrel will lap out quicker if you keep it down to bare metal. What exactly are you using for your indicator in the bore that barrel break in didn't work? Unless you can see whether or not the bearing surfaces of the bore are smoother or not and since we're talking about a microscopic level here I doubt you can. Of course with using wipeout it is hard to tell whether cleanup is easier or not, but back when we were all using Sweets and ME, it's pretty easy to tell that after a couple shots of cleaning between shots you weren't getting much blue on your patch anymore. I doubt you can quantify how much copper fouling is in the barrel via borescope, the surface area of the bore that is copper washed doesn't tell you how deep it is, and I would expect that it varies very little with relation to how much copper is there. Though, I have never used a borescope and am therefore making the sin of assumptions here. [/QUOTE]
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