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How often do you clean your rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="J E Custom" data-source="post: 586063" data-attributes="member: 2736"><p>+1</p><p></p><p>It is very simple. The reason you break in a barrel is to reduce the rate it fowles.</p><p></p><p>Most barrels shoot their best clean, and then at some point if you keep shooting without cleaning</p><p>accuracy will fall off. It may not be much but it will fall off to a point.</p><p></p><p>Some barrels will shoot 3 or 4 almost in the same hole and then throw a fly-er. others will shoot </p><p>more (Like 7 to 9 more before accuracy is affected. </p><p></p><p>If you think about it fouling is not consistant so the each shot has to deal with different conditions.</p><p></p><p>A barrel that has not been broken in will foul faster and be harder to clean. I know this for a fact</p><p>because I tested a rifle buy firing 50 rounds through it and keep tract of the groups.</p><p>after about 4 hours of cleaning I then proceeded to break it in using the shoot and clean method.</p><p></p><p>Groups dropped dramatically and if I cleaned after every 5 shot group accuracy was better by 50%</p><p>or more. If I stopped cleaning the groups worked there way back up in size. Also this rifle would </p><p>shoot good tight groups until it reach 6 or 7 shots without cleaning.</p><p></p><p>So In my opinion, breaking in a barrel improves overall accuracy and slows the rate of fouling</p><p>so I break all of my rifles in and clean as often as possible and try never to reach the point of</p><p>accuracy loss.</p><p></p><p>When I first started working on other peoples rifles I found that most of them just needed a </p><p>good cleaning to restore there original accuracy.</p><p></p><p>This will not change some peoples minds and so be it, I will keep doing what I am doing until</p><p>something changes my mind.</p><p></p><p>J E CUSTOM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J E Custom, post: 586063, member: 2736"] +1 It is very simple. The reason you break in a barrel is to reduce the rate it fowles. Most barrels shoot their best clean, and then at some point if you keep shooting without cleaning accuracy will fall off. It may not be much but it will fall off to a point. Some barrels will shoot 3 or 4 almost in the same hole and then throw a fly-er. others will shoot more (Like 7 to 9 more before accuracy is affected. If you think about it fouling is not consistant so the each shot has to deal with different conditions. A barrel that has not been broken in will foul faster and be harder to clean. I know this for a fact because I tested a rifle buy firing 50 rounds through it and keep tract of the groups. after about 4 hours of cleaning I then proceeded to break it in using the shoot and clean method. Groups dropped dramatically and if I cleaned after every 5 shot group accuracy was better by 50% or more. If I stopped cleaning the groups worked there way back up in size. Also this rifle would shoot good tight groups until it reach 6 or 7 shots without cleaning. So In my opinion, breaking in a barrel improves overall accuracy and slows the rate of fouling so I break all of my rifles in and clean as often as possible and try never to reach the point of accuracy loss. When I first started working on other peoples rifles I found that most of them just needed a good cleaning to restore there original accuracy. This will not change some peoples minds and so be it, I will keep doing what I am doing until something changes my mind. J E CUSTOM [/QUOTE]
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