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08-11-2006, 05:12 AM
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Rifle Break-in?
I was just curious as to some of your thoughts on this subject. When I bought my new rifle they recomended 40 shots for breakin cleaning every shot for the first 20 and every 3 shots for the last 20. If any of you have any suggestions on this topic I would be glad to hear from you as I plan on keeping this rifle for a very long time.
Thanks Shane 
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08-11-2006, 08:42 AM
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Well.....
My first custom rifle was a 280AI and I took some time and did the shoot/clean, shoot/clean thing. Tried to make it 10 rounds, but gave up after 7 shots. Then I shot 3 groups of 3 (plus a fouling shot) and cleaned for a few times. The rifle is very accurate. Second custom rifle was a 7-08AI, and once I again I took that approach and gave up after 6 shots... this rifle too is scary accurate. I knew it made little (no) difference, as many of the factory rifles I've had shot very well, and my first (30-06 Mod 70) I bought new, and never even new how to clean a rifle properly for the first few years...and itl shoots well ( 3/4" or better with most loads). When I had a 7-08AI built for my brother, I brought it home, started shooting it... and kept on shooting it. Gave it to him with a good load (1/2" groups) and 2 years later I have it back to make sure it's "dialed" for the sheep hunt this year... and it still shoots like a dream. Other custom tubes came and went, and last year when I had a 223AI built, I brought it home and started shooting. 400 rounds later, it was still shooting groups WELL under 0.4" at 100yds, and after 600+ rounds I shot a 450 yard group at 3.25" for 3 shots. I certainly don't neglect my rifles (far from it), but only run patches down them to get the condensation from the tube after hunting, and clean to bare steel when accuracy begins to degrade. Life is too short to clean barrels all day long. To me the biggest advantage to custom barrels is more shooting between cleaning sessions! Point of the longwinded story..... DON'T bother.... just clean the crud from the tube initially (oil/metal filings..), and shoot until accuracy falls off... then clean to bare steel and keep on shooting (which you'll likely find the first few times you'll clean after 20-30 firings anyhow, and then the fouling will decrease to allow more shots beteen cleaning). StoneChaser
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7-08 Rem.... the NEW 30-06! Last edited by StoneChaser; 08-11-2006 at 08:47 AM.
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08-11-2006, 08:49 AM
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Buy rifle/barrel
Clean Shoot 'til it pukes  Clean I suspect the whole barrel break-in thing came from barrel manufacturers.
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08-11-2006, 11:50 AM
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Agreed... I've done barrle break ins and just shot the hell out of rifles, and they don't seem to make much difference...
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08-11-2006, 01:51 PM
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yeah, me too. done both, saw no real difference
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08-11-2006, 02:09 PM
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perhaps in years since past and manufacturing processes that have now been improved upon it was a viable concept for a hunting rifle. Nowadays with better quality control and tolerences on machined parts most rifles shoot well out of the box . For the most part the whole break in period for an average rifle is more of an unnecasary exersise with little or no gains in performance .
oh yeah i almost forgot. I have done both and now i just clean them and shoot them out of the box.
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