shooting in a new barrel

Just want to know if 40 rounds of ammo will be enough to initially shoot in a new bbl.

Yes. Clean the rifle after each of the first five shots and then every five shots there after until you get to 20. Before you fire the gun clean it with JB, and be sure your brush it out afterward to remove all the JB.

that depends. is this a rifle, a pistol, a rimfire, a target rifle, etc.? personally, all i think 'shooting in' or 'breaking in' a new barrel does is smooth the rifling so it takes longer to foul and is quicker to clean. the rifling process may (or may not) leave surface roughness where the rifling is cut. this is mainly what breaking in a barrel is meant to clean up. for a hunting or plinking rifle that gets cleaned regularly, just use it as you normally would and the barrel will take care of itself. of course, each shot you waste breaking in the barrel is one more shot that is causing throat erosion. i've seen rusted pitted bores that still shot a couple MOA, but they needed to be cleaned every few rounds. it is more likely that you would shoot the throat out and have the barrel cut and set back than that you would shoot the rifling out enough to notice it. a match barrel that is only used for 1000 rounds is another story.

andy b.

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:26:21 +0000 (UTC), 'kaboom'

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