Buy gun and ammo, shoot ammo, clean a little bit and repeat.
https://www.6mmbr.com/GailMcMbreakin.html
So what's the science behind breaking in a barrel? What's it do? Or is it just old guy superstition junk science?
“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all;
And, if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
Bram Stoker
He wrote “Dracula”. I read it in high school. And not because I had to.“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all;
And, if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
Bram Stoker
So it's a matter of faith?
So it's a matter of faith?
I always shoot some holes in a new one before starting the first fire in it.So what's the science behind breaking in a barrel? What's it do? Or is it just old guy superstition junk science?
Maybe we should think of it as seasoning a cast iron pan? The pan will cook things unseasoned. But it’s better after cycles of cooking and seasoning.
I know some F-class guys that have ridiculously precise break in routines that must be meticulously followed or the whole rifle is junk:
"Clean the bore with an 89.4% alcohol solution mixed 38/30/32 alcohol to kerosene to extra virgin coconut oil from a coconut carried into the country on a rope between two European swallows, then fire one round, dipped in the blood of a Peruvian virgin at exactly midnight, on the eve of the winter solstice. Remove your pants, clean the bore with a patch made of chewed bark from a 4-6 year old persimmon tree, then... blah blah blah ..."
Fact is, whether it works or not, those guys are bitching over 3 inch groups at 1000. If they think it works, with their skillset, maybe it does. Maybe their belief in their system and routine is a difference in and of itself. As for me, not so much. Even if it makes a quantifiable difference, I lack the skill to exploit the potential gain. And of course, their barrel cost more than my whole rifle, so...
totally different type of material.