Just ordered a PSA upper with Wylde chamber and 18-inch A-2 stainless barrel. I noticed a comment in the reviews about the barrel needing more break-in than a higher-end barrel.
It has been years since I had a new Savage target rifle with stainless barrel, and at the time, I used the shoot one, clean, shoot two, clean procedure mopping with Sweet’s 7.62, then Kroil, then a dry patch.
What do others recommend for a new stainless barrel? I realize there a lot of shooters out there who just shoot the darned thing …
I quit worrying about break in when i found out that most barrel makers test fire after assembly. Thats just me though.
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^^^^^^just shoots it
“Break-in”………?
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I heard somewhere that break-in was done because of metallurgy that’s not usually relevant anymore as manufacturing processes have changed over the years. I still break in new bolt guns, but anything semi that I pick up is either used or not likely to benefit anyway.
On the rare occasion I do, its during my initial zero process anyway so isnt horribly inconvenient. Shoot one, run a snake. Do that for first 10 rounds. Then shoot 10 and snake til there’s 50 cases on the table. That’s about as far as my attention span will go.
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