Damoncali pretty much hit the nails right on the head...I will expand a few:
1. You can do everything to a lever gun you can do to a benchrest rifle if you want to, the question is, why?? I will add that the concept of breaking in a barrel to me means it started out fouling with copper, badly in most cases. So, you clean it and shoot it and clean it and shoot it until it stops coppering up. To me that is break in and thankfully not many rifles need it. I will also add that the barrel itself doesn't know what kind of action it is attached to, so any rifle is subject to needing a break in for copper.
Edit: some never stop the coppering...those are the ones you make a property line marker out of.
2. This is a good one...Communist bloc guns are made to shoot that ammo, so it's okay, but you really dont want to shoot it in anything else. Painted steel bullets and lacquered steel cases are made to be shot in guns with a hard chromed bore and chamber and radiused rifling. If you don't have a rifle with these needed features again the question is, why? {would you risk it} Steel bullets fired in a standard type bore will mess up the bore, it's never a question of "if", it's when.
3. 22S in 22LR chambers??...sure, as long as you clean out all the gunk before you go back to the 22LR. You might not get the 22LR to chamber otherwise.
4. Yes. Period end of story.
5. No, not really. There are all kinds of products to "clean" barrels, most of which don't work. What's even better is that for every one that don't work there are fifty guys that get on here and swear to Christ {and three other white men} how great it is.....none of them own a borescope. The fact is that the one's that don't work are not solvents, they kinda look like shaving cream. The ones that do work for the most part are solvents....figure it out. That said, the most effective fastest one I have used is not a solvent at all...it's a paste comprised mostly of chalk.
6. Yes. I could be wrong on this, but I believe SAAMI oversees or "directs" {or maybe "governs" is the word} the testing here. Great Britain has there own government run testing and there is a group on "the continent" {Europe} that does it. If you were a brit and bought an Italian shotgun it would have to be proofed in England by one of the London proof houses. I believe, for the most part, the U.S. accepts English and continental proof testing. This all could have changed in the last few years, but that is how it has been up until then. Every now and then a Glock will make it to the states with continental proof marks. These are somewhat coveted and command a higher price on the used market. I lucked onto one once and when I sold it I thought there was going to be a fist fight over the thing.
7. Aftermarket triggers are safe, it's the moron that installs and adjust them that is the problem.
8. Depends on what you are hunting....but a lot of people do it. Will a BTHP match bullet kill a deer?? Yep, in most cases drops them in their tracks. I don't personally do it, but I have eye witnessed it. This is another one of those, "not if, but why"?? Did you run out of hunting bullets?? Hogpatrol brings up a good point {as usual} target or non-expanding bullets are useful if you are trying to save fur. The last time I mentioned doing this on here I was accused of being irresponsible {presumably because a stray non-expanding bullet could "go too far" and kill someone????}
9. This one could be 50/50.....you could say the ammo is the problem, but ammo cant stick itself no more than Rosie O'Donnell's fork can make her the fat slop hog that {wants to take my guns away} she is. Some idiot has to try to use bad ammo...you should always know whether or not you have good ammo. If a factory round gets stuck it's on them, if a reloader gets ammo stuck it's got to be his fault.
10. Yes. One other point about "Improved" cartridges is that you can always buy the standard ammo in a pinch and use it if you have to.
