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Proper barrel break in or not? That is the question
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 1095628" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>I know a barrel breaks in whether I follow a strict regime or not. Fouling is always worse when new so I clean often at first. I might be diligent about cleaning each shot for the first 4 or 5 shots but then I work cleaning into load development. Maybe a 5 shot string... clean. Do that a couple times. Later, 2 or 3, - 5 shot strings... clean. I mostly clean to fit into what I'm testing. I may just take 5 shots late into the break-in process and clean it because that's all I needed to shoot and I had the time to clean it. Before long, I'll let 40 or 50 shots accumulate and if it usually cleans up fast, I figure it's good enough. If I think I might have gotten some funky results from a fouled barrel during break-in, I'll re-test later. I definitely don't burn 50 bullets and hours of cleaning and not get something for my time and effort other than a broken in barrel. Factory barrels may never clean easily and cleaning them might go into the next day after it's broken in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 1095628, member: 41338"] I know a barrel breaks in whether I follow a strict regime or not. Fouling is always worse when new so I clean often at first. I might be diligent about cleaning each shot for the first 4 or 5 shots but then I work cleaning into load development. Maybe a 5 shot string... clean. Do that a couple times. Later, 2 or 3, - 5 shot strings... clean. I mostly clean to fit into what I'm testing. I may just take 5 shots late into the break-in process and clean it because that's all I needed to shoot and I had the time to clean it. Before long, I'll let 40 or 50 shots accumulate and if it usually cleans up fast, I figure it's good enough. If I think I might have gotten some funky results from a fouled barrel during break-in, I'll re-test later. I definitely don't burn 50 bullets and hours of cleaning and not get something for my time and effort other than a broken in barrel. Factory barrels may never clean easily and cleaning them might go into the next day after it's broken in. [/QUOTE]
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