Q: Out at the range last week, I watched a guy breaking in a new barrel — at least that’s what he told me was doing. It looked like a lot of hard work to me.
He’d fire a shot and then run a brush dipped in solvent through the barrel followed by a couple of dry patches.
Then he’d fire a shot and repeat the process over and over again. Is it worthwhile going to all this trouble?
Joe Barnes
A: Hell no! These guys may think they’re breaking in their new rifle barrel, but all they are really doing is wasting time, powder and bullets.
The notion that a rifle barrel needs breaking in started with fanatical benchresters who hold to a theory that each bullet’s passage will polish any roughness out of the bore.
In my book, it is a worthless exercise and purely a waste of time.
Rifle loonies are definitely true believers, but very few of them are silly enough to believe that breaking in a barrel will make their .300 Win Mag sporter shoot like a .22-250 varminter.
And those who do are full of the stuff that makes roses grow.
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