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Do you service a brand new gun before break-in?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shinneryfarmer" data-source="post: 3833393" data-attributes="member: 46291"><p>Depends on the gun with me, most get a complete cleaning before firing. A new long gun that I'm hoping for good accuracy from will also get my standard breakin cycle. </p><p>Fire one shot clean barrel X 10</p><p>Fire 3 shots clean barrel X 5</p><p>Fire 5 shots clean barrel X 3</p><p>Then Shoot the Heck out of it.</p><p>The explanation for doing this is personal experience and some debate it. I was helping with a hunt set up for under privileged kids many years ago. The organizers got Remington, Ruger and Winchester to donate 2 rifles each. They also had scopes and other gear donated. A senior gentleman ( a gunsmith and long range shooter)and me mounted the scopes and sighted in the rifles. During the scope mounting we got in the discussion of breakin which I believed was unnecessary so we made a test out of it. One of each rifle being they were same model guns from each manufacturer would just be sighted in. The other would go thru the breakin cycle. I was impressed to say the least each gun that went thru the breakin cycle held tighter groups than the other gun not broke in. Maybe we just picked the best barrels out each pair of rifles but odds are against it. </p><p>Anyway if you think it will help what will it hurt to try and gain that little extra bit of accuracy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shinneryfarmer, post: 3833393, member: 46291"] Depends on the gun with me, most get a complete cleaning before firing. A new long gun that I'm hoping for good accuracy from will also get my standard breakin cycle. Fire one shot clean barrel X 10 Fire 3 shots clean barrel X 5 Fire 5 shots clean barrel X 3 Then Shoot the Heck out of it. The explanation for doing this is personal experience and some debate it. I was helping with a hunt set up for under privileged kids many years ago. The organizers got Remington, Ruger and Winchester to donate 2 rifles each. They also had scopes and other gear donated. A senior gentleman ( a gunsmith and long range shooter)and me mounted the scopes and sighted in the rifles. During the scope mounting we got in the discussion of breakin which I believed was unnecessary so we made a test out of it. One of each rifle being they were same model guns from each manufacturer would just be sighted in. The other would go thru the breakin cycle. I was impressed to say the least each gun that went thru the breakin cycle held tighter groups than the other gun not broke in. Maybe we just picked the best barrels out each pair of rifles but odds are against it. Anyway if you think it will help what will it hurt to try and gain that little extra bit of accuracy. [/QUOTE]
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