Barrel Break In

Rew

What are peoples thoughts on this for full bore rifles?

civdef

Buy gun.
Fire some shots, clean occasionally, repeat as necessary.

Rew

See I lke that idea, but there does seem to be a polar devision on the subject. Advice i was given was a lenthy breakin of cleaning after every shot!

TomBeckett

This would greatly depend on what cal. rifle you have.
The really fast rounds like .223/22-250/.220swift this is very nessessery as the barrell heats up pritty quickly like after 3/4 rounds fired in sucession.this can cause slight pitting or abrasions on the rifleing of a new barrell. so it is not a good idea to fire 10/20 rounds quickly from a new barrell.
1) lube barrell with rem oil.
2) fire two rounds
3) brush barrell with copper brush twisting as you push in and pull out.
4) Repeat steps 1-3 4 to 5 times
5) get some graphite powder put in soft brush put down barrell and leave.
6) next time you use rifle lube barrell( to get all the graphite out
7) after 5/6 rounds your barrell is getting broke in
8) you can now fire as normal
Note never let barrell heat up at the troath always let it cool before starting to fire again..:)

Vegeta

Yes this does seem to be a tricky one, I suppose there's no harm in running Tom's cleaning drill cos if he's right then you just saved yourself a lot of stress and if he's mistaken, how bad you have a clean rifle. I'm getting a new rifle this summer so i'll defo try this out

Keelan

Get rifle from Dealer, remove all grease from bore and chamber, this is very important, as it can be dangerouse, due to pressure.
Take to range, fire one shot, wait for 2 to 3 mins, fire second, wait again for 2 mins, then fire one more and let cool for 15 mins.
Clean rifle well, repeat this till rifle zeroed.
Throught the rifles life, clean every 5 shots, if you do this, it will last for several lifetimes.
This is my experience, after shooting rifles for the past 18 years.
I have a cousin with a .220 Swift, he has fired over 4000 rounds threw it, he has used the above method of cleaning of all the 12 years he has had the rifle. It still groups 1/2 inch at 100 and 1 inch at 200yds.
If out and have only fired 1 or 2 shots and are not going back out the next day, clean as above, as rust will set in quickly and cause pitting.
ALLWAYS, straight away, clean and dry a rifle right threw when coming in from the wet.
One more thing, DONT use JB compound, it wears away barrels faster then bullets, i can tell you now, if you clean your rifle everytime you use it as discribed above, their will be no need to use JB compound.

Rew

I cannt imagine i will clean it every 5 shots. Im im target shooting minimum I will put 20 rounds through it before im done.

civdef

The principle behind most of these procedures is to smooth out any imperfections in the bore in a gentle fashion, the worry being that doing so quickly could lead to further erosion and magnification of the defects.

Personally, I don't have the patience for the shoot one/ clean / shoot one / clean type approach.

Rew

civdef wrote:

The principle behind most of these procedures is to smooth out any imperfections in the bore in a gentle fashion, the worry being that doing so quickly could lead to further erosion and magnification of the defects.

Personally, I don't have the patience for the shoot one/ clean / shoot one / clean type approach.

Yeah and unless you have a room like that reloading guy pictured in the other thread you may be trying to do this in a field or on a cold range!

Im still interested to hear what people think/do when it comes to this.