I guess that I have never really understood why some people stress over "breaking in" a barrel. As long as you arent putting round after round through it without letting the barrel cool sufficiently, it was probably broken in ok. Now some of the guys that spend big bucks on thier cusom made barrels/guns might have a point in their methods of breaking in their custom barrels, but the run of mill name brand guns are probably fine with just firing it enough to let the barrel heat up and then clean it thouroghly with some good bore solvent and then oiling it up for next time. I like to recheck all of the nuts and bolts for snugness too after the first couple of times of firing a new gun since they have been known to come loose.