What I don't understand is that if there is validity tothe "break-in" process there would be no inaccurate rifles. I am sure you can damage rifles by doing the "wrong" thing, eg scratching the rifling with multiplesection aluminum rods or shooting down a barrel wet with oil, but to think the only variable in accuracy is the cleaning interval/method of cleaning the barrel seems to ignore things like bedding, free floating etc.

Maybe thebenefit of the break-in process is that it slowsthe (over-excited) shooter of a new rifle to a rate of fire that doesn't cook the barrel.

CE