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Proper barrel break in or not? That is the question
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<blockquote data-quote="MMERSS" data-source="post: 1094670" data-attributes="member: 63748"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">How smooth and copper clean the patches run through the barrel. On a new factory barrel initilly shoot one or two shots and increase up to five over a period of time. Clean the rifle and notice the "stickyness" as the rod is pushed through during cleaning and also the amount of "blue" copper on the patches if using a good copper remover. After a period of time, the rod should glide smoothly down the bore and the "blue" copper should almost or completely disappear, hopefully anyway. With a custom barrel it may only take a few rounds before the bore becomes relatively free of copper. A factory barrel may take from around 30 to an infinite amount of rounds. There comes a time when after about 30 to 40 rounds I will give up and just start shooting.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MMERSS, post: 1094670, member: 63748"] [SIZE=2] [FONT=Verdana]How smooth and copper clean the patches run through the barrel. On a new factory barrel initilly shoot one or two shots and increase up to five over a period of time. Clean the rifle and notice the “stickyness” as the rod is pushed through during cleaning and also the amount of “blue” copper on the patches if using a good copper remover. After a period of time, the rod should glide smoothly down the bore and the “blue” copper should almost or completely disappear, hopefully anyway. With a custom barrel it may only take a few rounds before the bore becomes relatively free of copper. A factory barrel may take from around 30 to an infinite amount of rounds. There comes a time when after about 30 to 40 rounds I will give up and just start shooting.[/FONT] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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