Breaking in a New Rifle?

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My son has his first rifle on the way. It's a Savage 110 in .30-06 we picked up unfired from a fellow GN. I have never owned a brand new firearm before and I'm just wondering is there anything special that should be done to break it in? For example should we be cleaning it after the first shot or two? Anything like that? Please don't laugh if I'm way off I am just curious and want to do right by my son with his first rifle.
 
Really nothing to do except let it cool betwen the first 10 shots, run a patch tru and dont overdoo it for the first 100 rounds ( no rapid fire ) after that the pedal to the floor... JP
 
Clean the crap out of it and go have fun. There is no mythical recipe to make it shoot better or break it in properly. Don't heat it up too much is the rule of thumb.
 
New guns that come through the house get the barrel swabbed with Wipeout and the piss shot out of it :D, no magical break in required good sir :)

I also follow the Guntech rule of cleaning, don't clean the bore till you notice a drop in accuracy.

I've shot over 400 rounds out of a rifle before I cleaned it....and now that I think of it I dont think it was getting any more innaccurate...I cleaned it just because :)
 
if you want to be safe clean after each round for 5 rounds then after every 5 up to 25 then call it good that's what i do. but to be honest i've never seen any proof that this really helps but i do it just to be safe!

haha i just watched that moron throwing his gun on the ground, real smart that will sure help the re-sale value.
 
Break in will probably make a difference when precise shooting is required. This would apply to rifles with match grade chambers and high end barrels. The difference barrel break in would make is probably very small compared to what most of us a capable of. But the tiniest of advantages come into play for competitive shooters and the uber long distance crowd.

With an off the shelf hunting gun and the rest of us mere mortal shooters as was said above. Clean it shoot it and eat venison. And as with any gun shooting it to the point of it being too hot to touch or letting the bore get totally disgusting is never a good idea.
 
gink said:
if you want to be safe clean after each round for 5 rounds then after every 5 up to 25 then call it good that's what i do. but to be honest i've never seen any proof that this really helps but i do it just to be safe!

haha i just watched that moron throwing his gun on the ground, real smart that will sure help the re-sale value.
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How is doing what your doing...cleaning after every 5 rounds til you hit the 25 round mark "safer"? Are you REALLY cleaning it properly or just a 5min clean job?
 
Until the Angels Fall said:
How is doing what your doing...cleaning after every 5 rounds til you hit the 25 round mark "safer"? Are you REALLY cleaning it properly or just a 5min clean job?
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by safe i didn't mean it as in the gun would be unsafe to shoot.

this subject has been argued about a million times and nobody can prove whether it really helps or not, just do what you wan't, because if it actually helps then it's not to much extra effort to put in. the way i figure it is there may be small metal slivers left over from machining and if that somehow got stuck in between the bullet and the barrel it could possibly make a scratch in your barrel that will collect fouling easier. I'm no expert but if there is an advantage to breaking in your barrel then why not.
 
I'd clean it and dry patch it before firing it. You were probably already going to do that. Then shoot to sight it in, and clean it with a copper cleaner and see if anything unusual is happening, like a lot of copper build up. After that, I shoot more and check zero, and keep going until I see accuracy fall off. But I certainly clean the bolt and oil and wipe down the exterior as needed.
 
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