Conditioning new barrel before break-in.

[rhovee]

I’m curious if anyone has done testing with any sort of prep work reguarding different lubricants in new barrels before breaking in. Not sure if it would help the speeding up process or copper fouling. Gun oil? Powder graphite? Or any other solvents.

 

[watercam]

The only barrels I 'break in' are factory. The custom barrels go straight to a match or practice session for 50-100 rounds and call them good. All you are doing with customs is ironing out any chatter on the leade/ramp anyway. I do lightly oil my barrels after cleaning regardless of alloy.

 

[Shawnba67]

Run a patch with a copper solvent first, then a dry 1 also. The logic is to have trace solvent in the nooks and crannies. Cant hurt right?
Dont forget the dry patch liquids dont compress even at 60k psi

 

[savagedasher]

I JB
the chamber And the crown end
300 strokes on the chamber and 200 on the crown And 50 or more on the barrel
I never
have any copper problem
The IBS match was won today with a Savage Dasher that was broke in that way
And the barrel has over 3500 rounds
He beat the best
Or who I consider the best
MR Bart

 

[Texas10]

See Post 22, then work your way back up the conversation

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/colloidal-graphite.3888537/page-2#post-36664110

 

[Puzzaz01]

Shoot once run a wet patch and few dry patches to clean it out. Shoot two shots, patch it the same way as the first shot. Shoot 5 and repeat step one. Shoot 10 shots now when you run a wet patch through it look for copper. If it's a good barrel you shouldn't see any copper fouling, let her rip you're good to go. I hardly ever scrub a barrel out, maybe every 500-600 rounds. Let the target tell you when something needs to be addressed.

Darrin

 

[rhovee]

Thanks for the link. I might give it a shot.

 

[pacificman]

I have run about 50 or so strokes of JB in a new factory barrel then just shoot the thing. With my custom barrels
I will clean them real well and then just shoot as they are already hand lapped and ready to go.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Carb cleaner

 

[gilmillan1]

I just clean them to ensure all machining debris is removed. I am afraid the machining residues will damage the barrel. After that, they go to develop a load.

 

[1shot]

See Post 22, then work your way back up the conversation

http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/colloidal-graphite.3888537/page-2#post-36664110

George Kelbly turned me on to colloidal graphite and I have bee using it on barrels ever since. Have several friends that now us it also.
I hope this helps,

Lloyd

 

[cptjack]

Shoot once run a wet patch and few dry patches to clean it out. Shoot two shots, patch it the same way as the first shot. Shoot 5 and repeat step one. Shoot 10 shots now when you run a wet patch through it look for copper. If it's a good barrel you shouldn't see any copper fouling, let her rip you're good to go. I hardly ever scrub a barrel out, maybe every 500-600 rounds. Let the target tell you when something needs to be addressed.

Darrin

done it this way for break in cleans fastest of all me rifles

 

[JFrank]

I’m curious if anyone has done testing with any sort of prep work reguarding different lubricants in new barrels before breaking in. Not sure if it would help the speeding up process or copper fouling. Gun oil? Powder graphite? Or any other solvents.

A little Hoppes oil on a patch to reduce friction otta do it
Then bore tech and c-4 after a few rounds

 

[JimPag]

Just clean it with whatever after it's chambered and shoot the piss out of it. Shoot it until it doesn't shoot anymore and throw another new one on. Barrels are cheap and expendable.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

Whatever you leave in the barrel is incinerated at the first shot. Think about it, what is the temperature of the explosion that pushes the bullet out of the barrel?

 

[Joe Salt]

If you have a fresh barrel with a new chamber, why wouldn't you first try and get the tinny burrs that are left from the chamber reamer out? I JB and Flitz my barrels before a single round is put through them. Then a light coat of gun oil of your choice. Then have at it fellas.

joe Salt

 

[rhovee]

I haven’t tried anything before and have two rifles coming in soon. I have realized that cleaning all the copper out every 20-25 rounds helps with the speeding up process. I’ll try some colloidal graphite and see if that helps. Thanks guys.

 

[varget204]

Follow Krieger, Criterion bareel procedures,cuts down on Copper Build Up

 

[4xforfun]

9 new Kriegers and 3 Brux in the last few years...... Clean BEFORE the FIRST, second and third shots. After that I don't have ANY copper fowling that doesn't come out with simple wet patching.

But the 2nd part of BBL break in...that first 40 - 80 shots where the BBL SPEEDS UP. My thought is that if you got lucky and found a PERFECT load in the first 10 shots it would go by-by and you would need to retune because the BBL speeds up.

Just my .02.

Tod

 

[Bart B.]

Whatever you leave in the barrel is incinerated at the first shot. Think about it, what is the temperature of the explosion that pushes the bullet out of the barrel?

a few thousand degrees F.

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