Barrel Break-in
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Matt1911
Cyrwus Jr.
In the immortal words of Troy Landry... "Choot it boy!!"
technetium-99m
Mighty Righty
Do this over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpoGqLfz0r0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpoGqLfz0r0
gondo
Well-Known Fanatic
do yall clean your 556 barrels? I have a nordic with 1k rounds on it and it just hit me that ive never cleaned it.... it seems that a lot of people only clean the chamber on pistol barrels, myself included but what about the rifle barrels?
Matt1911
Cyrwus Jr.
I clean the pistol every 3-400 rounds.
Rifle every 600 or so.
Rifle every 600 or so.
brandt9913
Well-Known Fanatic
This sounds backwards? By clean, you mean add oil? I break down rifle and clean BCG couple times a year, and thoroughly clean the barrel with solvent once each year. Granted I only shoot about 1,000 rds per year total in my rifle.Matt Rigsby said:
I drop the barrel in my pistol to chamber check ammo when i reload 500+ rounds. Then I just wipe it down and put it back in. Every 1,000 rounds I completely strip it and clean the whole thing.
Shotgun same as rifle, except solvent in barrel. I don't bother with solvent in shotgun unless there's visible fouling.
I shoot 5k-7k rounds per year combined and malfunctions are very rare. Should I be cleaning more than this?
brandt9913
Well-Known Fanatic
Saturn barrels are fine and should hold 3/4-1 MOA. Just shoot the thing and clean when necessary. We are trying to shoot 1/4 MOA groups in 3 gun. Be a gun shooter and not a gun cleaner with a bunch of safe queens.
Don't feed your rifle elephant dung ammo and expect it to elephant dung diamonds either.
Don't feed your rifle elephant dung ammo and expect it to elephant dung diamonds either.
drmitchgibson
The white Morgan Freeman
This is the most comprehensive barrel break-in information, all in one location. Be careful, this kind of information could be dangerous.
http://youtu.be/TRRahHX9Zkg
http://youtu.be/TRRahHX9Zkg
dennishoddy
Moderator
^^^^^^^LOL!
I kinda bought into the barrel break-in about 12 years or so ago.
I was dead set on getting an upper in .243 WSSM. Found a guy in Denver building them. I couldn't find any barrels to build my own, so don't know where he found them, but he said they wouldn't shoot at all until they had 200 rounds down the pipe, with a bore snake after every 3rd round, and a through cleaning with hopee's every 12 rounds.
My first set at the range was a 5 shot group at about 2". Did the deal, and went to the next 5. It settled into a 1" or so group which is about all I can get with some coveralls across the hood of a pickup.
300-400 rounds later, it does no better. Killed a lot of coyotes and deer though.
I kinda bought into the barrel break-in about 12 years or so ago.
I was dead set on getting an upper in .243 WSSM. Found a guy in Denver building them. I couldn't find any barrels to build my own, so don't know where he found them, but he said they wouldn't shoot at all until they had 200 rounds down the pipe, with a bore snake after every 3rd round, and a through cleaning with hopee's every 12 rounds.
My first set at the range was a 5 shot group at about 2". Did the deal, and went to the next 5. It settled into a 1" or so group which is about all I can get with some coveralls across the hood of a pickup.
300-400 rounds later, it does no better. Killed a lot of coyotes and deer though.
