Barrel break in

[tomL]

Clean it every 3 shots for about 15 rounds.

Groups average is .75" at 100 metres. The larger groups are all my doing. The gun is capable to shooting .5".

Tom

 

[DGY]

I don’t think anyone would ever complaint about a rifle being too accurate. The way I see it a 2 moa rifle should be adequate for hunting. But a 2 moa rifle is likely only 2 moa when shot off a solid benchrest and at 300 yards for example would be a 5 or 6 moa at best, off the benchrest. Now you are tromping through snow with heavy clothing and breathing hard and you get a 300 yard shot. Now in those conditions a 2 moa rifle can easily become an 8 or 9 moa rifle for many people which could miss the vital area on a deer for instance. Now you take the 1 moa rifle or better. In the same conditions the 1 moa rifle may become a 4 moa rifle. That’s the way I see it anyway, better accuracy may give you an advantage. I like my hunting rifles to at least be able to shoot 1 moa or less.

Make sense, and I agree, I’m the same way usually!

 

[blakeyboy]

Worried about wearing out your barrel with brushes? Ok.

not really worried, more about my poor technics and applied pressures etc. and possibly damaging crown or throat than anything so tend to lean to the less is more side of it all, let the chemicals work, I can make time, the range of what it might take to shorten life by cleaning I dunno, maybe it is a nothing burger, or wear a throat or mess up a crown?, but the less of my hand muscling things down the tube makes sense to me in terms of potentially making things worse, it's clearly a subjective topic from zero to benchrest....as hunters it probably would take a serious amount of change to move a barrel from 1/2 moa to 1 moa and it's still going to kill for most set ups even at 1.5 moa....so we may never really need to do a single thing ever, I do very little for a little peace of mind...that's it, dozen rounds, several wipeout cleanings....done

 

[KaneZoR]

Just to add to this here is a discussion from Weatherby in the barrel break in procedure and what they’ve observed across shooting A LOT of new barrels