Wrangler95
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Just bought a new varmint rifle and I'd like to know how many shots thru a new barrel is needed to season the barrel?
Just bought a new varmint rifle and I'd like to know how many shots thru a new barrel is needed to season the barrel?
Would follow mup's advice and clean every 5 shots for at least the first 20. Can use cheap ammo for break in.Thanks for your advice.I will shoot about a box of varmit rounds and then clean the barrel and go from there!BTW,the gun is a Savage Axis 11 in 223 caliber!
Would follow mup's advice and clean every 5 shots for at least the first 20. Can use cheap ammo for break in.
Remember, as fairchaser alluded to, the barrel will speed up at or around 200 rounds give or take, and you may have to re-adjust your zero, or your handloads, however your case may be.Yes,Im gonna do that!
After reading this, I smell a lawyer or a retired guy with WAAAY too much time on his hands.This is on the Savage Website FAQ's..............
Although there may be different schools of thought on barrel break-in, this is what Precision Shooting Magazine recommends:
STEP 1 (repeated 10 times)
Fire one round
Push wet patches soaked with a powder solvent through the bore
Push a brush through the bore (5 times in each direction)
Push dry patches through the bore (2 times)
Push wet patches soaked with a copper solvent through the bore
Push a brush through the bore (5 times in each direction)
Push dry patches through the bore (2 times)
Push a patch with 2 drops of oil through the bore
STEP 2 (repeated 5 times)
Fire a 3 shot group
Repeat the cleaning procedure from STEP 1 after each group
STEP 3 (repeat 5 times)
Fire a 5 shot group
Repeat the cleaning procedure from STEP 1
They recommend the use of a patch with 2 drops of oil after the cleaning so that you are not shooting with a dry bore. It is also advisable to use a powder solvent and copper solvent from the same manufacturer to be sure they are chemically compatible.
What??? So all your rifles have been used with no barrel break-in? That's crazy!After reading this, I smell a lawyer or a retired guy with WAAAY too much time on his hands.
Holy smokes (pun intended). I fail at barrel break-in's
Correct, kinda. Most of my hunting rifles are old or I've bought them used. In fact, all of them.What??? So all your rifles have been used with no barrel break-in? That's crazy!
I've done that break-in procedure every time I got a new rifle…. at least twice!
Okay, 25 grains of H335 for the lighter bullets===55, 60, 62, or 70 gr bullet is what we shoot. The 60 gr Partition is a favorite along with the 70 Grain Accubond.
or
24.5 grains of Shooters World Tactical Rifle which we use for 55 and 62 only.
You'll probably find the 223 chamber is TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT--ours are loaded long by .013 over SAAMI spec.
Ours is accurate enough to cloverleaf 5 rounds at 100 first serious day at the range.
We did break in sighting the scope on Day 1.
If you want, cut a loop (i did it in 1/4 loop segments) and get the trigger pull down. View attachment 133395
Get a Boyds thumbhole laminate or AT, it is not only pretty, it actually helps with your accuracy.