but happy! After 7 hours in the range today, my rifle is broken in!
I will share how I did the breaking in. It's my way and I am not saying that this is the right way but it worked for us in the past and I stick to it. Here it goes:
Started with factory barrel - 0 rounds
1 patch with graphite lube;
1 round down the pipe;
5 patches with hoppe's 9, 10 bronze brush strokes, 5 patches with hoppe's 9, 5 dry patches;
repeat 4 more rounds.
first group of 5 to sight in the rifle (round count=10);
1 round down the pipe (round count=11),
5 patches with hoppe's 9, 10 bronze brush strokes, 5 patches with hoppe's 9, 5 dry patches;
3 patches with sweets 7.62, 15 minutes for solvent to work, 2 dry patches, 2 patches with Kroil, 5 patches dry. If the second dry patch after sweets comes out blue, I repeat the sweets and kroil again. If it comes out white, I do Kroil step and am ready to fire again.
I fire only one round at a time until the second dry patch comes out white after only one application of sweets. Once it happens, I can fire two rounds in a row and so on until group of 5 rounds can be fired and the second dry patch comes out white after sweets application. When it happens - I am done and my rifle is broken in.
So, for my rifle it took 5 by one, 4 by two, 4 by three and 2 by four. First group of 5 came out clean from the first time. (round count=48)
I will share how I did the breaking in. It's my way and I am not saying that this is the right way but it worked for us in the past and I stick to it. Here it goes:
Started with factory barrel - 0 rounds
1 patch with graphite lube;
1 round down the pipe;
5 patches with hoppe's 9, 10 bronze brush strokes, 5 patches with hoppe's 9, 5 dry patches;
repeat 4 more rounds.
first group of 5 to sight in the rifle (round count=10);
1 round down the pipe (round count=11),
5 patches with hoppe's 9, 10 bronze brush strokes, 5 patches with hoppe's 9, 5 dry patches;
3 patches with sweets 7.62, 15 minutes for solvent to work, 2 dry patches, 2 patches with Kroil, 5 patches dry. If the second dry patch after sweets comes out blue, I repeat the sweets and kroil again. If it comes out white, I do Kroil step and am ready to fire again.
I fire only one round at a time until the second dry patch comes out white after only one application of sweets. Once it happens, I can fire two rounds in a row and so on until group of 5 rounds can be fired and the second dry patch comes out white after sweets application. When it happens - I am done and my rifle is broken in.
So, for my rifle it took 5 by one, 4 by two, 4 by three and 2 by four. First group of 5 came out clean from the first time. (round count=48)
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