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Chris-37
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I'm picking up a new 25/06 on Monday what is the best way to breakin a new barrel
 
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Clean it good!!!


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I'm picking up a new 25/06 on Monday what is the best way to breakin a new barrel
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Send it to me with 200 rounds! Sorry could'nt help myself! Smiler
 
Posts: 117 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: 30 March 2010Reply With Quote
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take it apart and make sure everything that is supposed to be tight is tight and everything that is supposed to be loose is loose. Put it back together with a little quality gun oil on the hidden parts and clean the barrel. Good. Then use some disclpline in your rate of fire. Never let the barrel get so hot that you can't pick it up by the barrel with your bare hands. If your groups start getting sloppy, stop and clean the barrel before you go on. Clean the barrel after every range session.


Aim for the exit hole
 
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Clean it well before firing. Clean it after each shot for several rounds. Start shooting groups of three to five, clean after each group. After about 25 shot's you should notice it cleans easier and there is less difference between groups. Nate
 
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You should clean it with a cleaner that removes copper fouling. I like Wipe-out. Clean it after every shot the first five or so shots; then after every five shots for a around 20 shots; you can judge by the difficulty in cleaning after that. May clean after every 10 shots for a while. Definitely don't get it hot. Thats a major contributor to throat erosion. I like to let my action set open for a little while especially in the hotter months between shots. Depends on caliber too.

What did you get? Let us know how it performs.

God Bless, Louis
 
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When did barrels learn to count??


Aim for the exit hole
 
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Before doing any kind of breaking in, I'd use some

Ultra Bore Coat, now known as Dyna Bore Coat, before putting a single round down the barrel.

http://www.dynamicfinishes.com...ngs/ultra-bore-coat/

I've got sniper and hunting rifles with nearly 1000 rounds without a cleaning, after the break-in of course, and they do NOT foul. They still shoot 1/2 MOA out to 1000 yds.

Alan


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This is what Dan Lilja recommends for his barrels.
http://www.riflebarrels.com/su...fire_maintenance.htm

For a standard factory barrel, I have used David Tubbs Final Finish system. It definitely helped smooth out the barrel and reduced copper accumulation.

I would follow Lilja's advice, then see how it shoots. If it is a tack driver, leave it alone. Shoot and clean normally.


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What I would do if it were mine. I would thoroughly clean the barrel before shooting. I like to use a combination of foam cleaner, JB Bore Paste and Montana Extreme copper cleaner.

If it is a rifle you know you are going to keep, definitely Dyna Bore Coat the barrel. It works as advertised.

If you don't know, I would shoot three rounds, clean for three cycles (9 rounds). Then go to your normal routine.
 
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I've done it both ways and haven't found any difference in the way the rifle shoots.

I did run across these thoughts on it posted on another forum I'm a member of. This was the late Gale McMillan's posting on barrel break in:

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Posted: 01-24-2000 08:57
Do your rifle a favor and clean it well after every group and forget all the break in BS


Posted: 01-25-2000 05:19
I just read the Feb edition of rifleman. No wonder it has shrunk to a few pages when they print such garbage as the barrel break in. It's lucky it doesn't
have much following now. As a life member and a barrel maker of long standing be assured I will call them on this BS!!! I can say that there are enough
barrels ruined by ignorance without encouraging the masses to commit mechanical suicide with such BS


Posted: 01-27-2000 08:57
I will make one last post on this subject and appeal to logic on this subject I think it is the height of arrogance to believe a novice can improve a barrel
using a cleaning rod more than that a barrel maker can do with 30 years of experience and a * million dollars in equipment . The barrel is a relatively
precise bit of machining and to imagine that it can be improved on with a bit of abrasive smeared on a patch or embedded in a bullet. The surface finish
of a barrel is a delicate thing with more of them being ruined with a cleaning rod in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use one. I would
never in a million years buy a used rifle now because you well may buy one that has been improved. First give a little thought to what you think you
are accomplishing with any of the break in methods. Do you really believe that if what you are doing would help a barrel that the barrel maker wouldn't
have already done it. The best marketing advantage he can have is for his barrels to out perform his competitors! Of coarse he is happy to see you
poking things in your barrel . Its only going to improve his sales. Get real!!!! I am not saying the following to brag because the record speak for it' self
McMillan barrels won the gold at 4 straight Olympics. Won the Leach Cup eight years running. Had more barrels in the Wimbledon shoot off every year
for 4 straight yearsthan any other make. Set the national 1000 yard record 17 times in one year. Held 7 world records at the same time in the NBRSA .
Won the national silhouette matches 5 straight times and set 3 world records while doing that . Shot the only two 6400 scores in the history of small
bore and holds a 100 yard world record that will stand for ever at .009 of one inch. All with barrels the shooter didn't have to improve on by breaking
them in.

 
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I don't think the "break in" helps with accuracy. Just makes the barrel easier to clean IMO.

Dyna Bore Coat makes it even easier to clean.

Easier to clean = less passes down the bore with a cleaning rod.

I generally clean the rifles I have shot/hunted with once a year, normally Jan/Feb when things have slowed down. The ones I have not shot get patch with type of oil to protect the bore.

Nice thing about DBC is it only takes 4-10 passes vs 20-30 passes. That is huge IMO.

There is also a big difference between a factory barrel vs a McMillan, Shilen, Pac-nor, Krieger etc. A barrel is either going to shoot,or it is not. If it is the latter, I do not think a break in is going to help.
 
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