Preferred barrel break in

[nemis2010]

Hi everyone,
I am picking up 2 new barrels, bartlein 243 and 6.5-06 AI. I see lots of different info regarding break in that seems very different. What's everyone's preferred break in method?

 

[packer58]

This subject has been beat to death at every level possible. Read a bunch and believe what you want but in the end do what makes sense and works for you. For the record, i break in my barrels and try to keep them clean from carbon buildup in the throat area and copper everywhere else.

 

[nemis2010]

This subject has been beat to death at every level possible. Read a bunch and believe what you want but in the end do what makes sense and works for you. For the record, i break in my barrels and try to keep them clean from carbon buildup in the throat area and copper everywhere else.

Brass brush for the throat?

 

[packer58]

Brass brush for the throat?

If you choose to go the clean barrel route, you can pretty much stay on top of carbon buildup with a good carbon solvent, boretech C-4 is a good one. once the carbon gets baked in then yes ..

 

[Rob5589]

Clean well then shoot it.

 

[Irish Miner]

From their website:

How to Break a Barrel In | Bartlein Barrels

www.bartleinbarrels.com

 

[Mojave]

Shoot it, clean it when I remember to.

 

[Gargoyle]

You lucky dog you! Get to start out with clean canvas. The first 3-5 shots are the most important for burnishing the lands. I'd follow the Bartlein instructions.

Brushing:

I use a slightly oversized, next caliber larger brush to clean the carbon ring out of the chamber neck area. (The ring that forms with successive carbon buildup at the case mouth area in chamber) Insert till you feel the brush stop against the neck area. Mini strokes back & forth and spinning the brush gets it. Keep the brush out of the lands.

Copper removal. After a soaking in wipeout, or shooters choice foam cleaner I patch the bore with alcohol. Borescope to find copper deposits. If there are deposits of copper I brush with alcohol, 10 passes, patch again with alcohol and then dry patch. I find this opens up the copper for easier subsequent removal.

After completely clean I patch Lock Ease (Graphite suspended in drying agent) through the bore to prevent carbon build up and simulate pre fouling.

 

[LRI_Chad]

My process:

"Shoot it like I stole it."

I take around 30 rounds with me on a new stick. I plan on the first 10-15 being "weird." I use this time to get an optic in the neighborhood. Around 15+ rounds, the barrel starts to settle down. By 20, it's running the number. If it isn't, something is wrong.

I've been doing it this way for the better part of two decades now. With any premium barrel, it hasn't let me down yet.

"A bullet always tells the truth."

A quote from a movie, but it is relevant here as well when it comes to cleaning. The need to shove a stick through a hole is a man thing. It's not a gun thing. If the rifle is performing, keep shooting it until it doesn't.

The younger version of me shot a great deal of Highpower Service Rifle as a Marine and later as a civilian. On both the 14's and later on, black guns. The last 20 rounds are where absolute accuracy potential needs to be realized as your back at the 600. In 30+ years, I've never heard of anyone pulling a cleaning rod out between the 3 and the 6 to patch a bore. They'd be laughed off the firing line. When at a Palma Match you have to pay extra money to be able to fire fouling rounds on a clean bore. -Something you'll happily do because clean bore shots that land on call almost never happens.

There is no reason to do it on a hunting rifle, either. Run it dirty, and patch with oil at the end of the season. Dry-patch it a few times when you take it back out, and then go to work. If the gun pressures up or accuracy falls off, clean it with a copper solvent and get some rounds down it before you put it to work again.

 

[Mojave]

My process:

"Shoot it like I stole it."

I take around 30 rounds with me on a new stick. I plan on the first 10-15 being "weird." I use this time to get an optic in the neighborhood. Around 15+ rounds, the barrel starts to settle down. By 20, it's running the number. If it isn't, something is wrong.

I've been doing it this way for the better part of two decades now. With any premium barrel, it hasn't let me down yet.

"A bullet always tells the truth."

A quote from a movie, but it is relevant here as well when it comes to cleaning. The need to shove a stick through a hole is a man thing. It's not a gun thing. If the rifle is performing, keep shooting it until it doesn't.

The younger version of me shot a great deal of Highpower Service Rifle as a Marine and later as a civilian. On both the 14's and later on, black guns. The last 20 rounds are where absolute accuracy potential needs to be realized as your back at the 600. In 30+ years, I've never heard of anyone pulling a cleaning rod out between the 3 and the 6 to patch a bore. They'd be laughed off the firing line. When at a Palma Match you have to pay extra money to be able to fire fouling rounds on a clean bore. -Something you'll happily do because clean bore shots that land on call almost never happens.

There is no reason to do it on a hunting rifle, either. Run it dirty, and patch with oil at the end of the season. Dry-patch it a few times when you take it back out, and then go to work. If the gun pressures up or accuracy falls off, clean it with a copper solvent and get some rounds down it before you put it to work again.

This, anything else is for BR shooters.

 

[Reburn]

The need to shove a stick through a hole is a man thing. It's not a gun thing.

Hahahahaha.

Im gonna save this for later.

 

[S-3 ranch]

I run a box of cheap ammunition or leftover through my new rifle, then start the search for whatever premuim it likes, clean every 100 rounds maybe

 

[clperry]

I haven’t cleaned a rifle in a very very long time, and won’t unless one makes me. New or not.


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[ams30gts]

Shoot, clean, repeat. hahha