The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

Picking up a new Anchutz 1417 tomorrow, I know definitely clean the barrel to remove any manufacturer anti oxidising etc products, then do a break in procedure ie clean after every shot for then first 10, then every five or what?

Very many thanks.

Frere

Ask Linda or mike

No, ooman, no. Once you've given the barrel a pull through to get rid of storage oils it shouldn't need "breaking in". No barrel should. If it does, it's a badly made barrel that ought never to have left the factory.

Many thanks meles_ meles for reply. I suppose receiver, chamber area etc also needs storage oils & crud cleaning out?

When sampling the various brands of ammunition to find out what the rifle likes, I am thinking of plinking 25 off a box, then do grouping to see how that particular brand does. Is this a reasonable way of finding out?

As always, many thanks.


Frere

meles meles wrote:No, ooman, no. Once you've given the barrel a pull through to get rid of storage oils it shouldn't need "breaking in". No barrel should. If it does, it's a badly made barrel that ought never to have left the factory.

http://www.full-bore.co.uk/posting.php? ... 5&p=232471#

Barrels don't need breaking in, but when sampling different brands, you are continously changing the bullet / barrel lubrication system. Bert Brookes, who ran the test range at Eley for many years, recommended the following procedure:
Starting with a clean barrel, the rifle will need from 5 to 10 shots before the lubrication system is established. After shooting, push two dry patches through the barrel. Every 300 rounds, clean the barrel and start again.
Since different brands of ammo use differing lubes, the procedure must be gone through every time the ammo is changed.
Very tedious, but Bert could easily demonstrate the difference it made in grouping.
Fred