Breaking In a New Hand Gun

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I have just ordered a new CZ 75BD and will be using it for IDPA.

Its my first new handgun, my others have all been purchased used.

My question is there a break in procedure for a new hand gun?

I know I will be giving it a good cleaning removing the factory oil.

Is there any other things I should be aware of?
 
Some of my guns from new have seemed like they shoot shotgun like patterns at first. But with a few dozen rounds downrange then sharpened up nicely. My Shadow was one such gun. So don't sweat it if your new gun doesn't seem like it wants to play ball for the first 5 to 10 magazines worth of shooting.
 
There is definitely a break-in period, but I don't think one needs to be as diligent with a pistol as with a target rifle.

I bought a new pistol which was shooting high and left (from benchrest, as confirmed by others at the range, don't question my skills LOL) and the slide lock was so stiff I needed to use two hands if I wanted to use it. 500 rounds later, everything is smoothed out and it shoots straight... which was a huge relief. All I did was shoot it, and clean it often the first few times (after every 50-100 rounds for the first few hundred)
 
Don't jump to any conclusions about the gun/ammo until you have 500 rounds through it.

I shot a new handgun last week and the trigger impoved dramatically after 200 rounds.


Clean it before you satrt, lube it up and then shoot and clean/lube after each session.
 
Clean. Shoot the hell out of it. Clean. Dry-fire with snap caps when you cannot go to the range. Life should improve after a few hundred rounds...
 
It should run just fine out of the box with no special break-in procedure. The trigger might improve and controls get a little less stiff after a few hundred rounds, but everything should be fine functionally.

If a gun needs to be "broken in" to run properly, the manufacturer the manufacturer is not doing its job.
 
I purchased a CZ this summer and was told at the gun shop to run a bore snake threw it and shoot. They said not to clean any thing else because there was some kind of break in grease/oil in it. Clean properly after it had some use.
 
strip it, clean off all original grease, soak it in clp over night, wipe off xs, then hand cylcle the slide a few hundred times, dry fire it 100 times or so. Take the magazines apart, lightly oil the springs and then take a paint stir stick and run them up and down the mag 100 times to loosen the springs a bit and you wil be good to go. Then expect to fire a few hundred rounds through it to really break it in, but before you waist ammo I would do the above., keep the rails lubed.
 
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