ORIGINAL: ShatoDavis
You're just wrong. Listen folks having as accurate a weapon as possible is just plain smart. If a Factory gun is all you can afford, then you should do everything in your power to make it as accurate as you can. Take the time to break in a barrel and at the very least you will have a barrel that is easier to clean.
I thoroughly clean a weapon to begin. Then I clean the bore after every shot for the first five rounds. then I clean after every two rounds for another 10 rounds. then I clean after every 5 rounds for the next 50-100 rounds. After that I rarely shoot more than 10 rounds between cleanings. Somewhere around the 50th round down the bore things start to come together. The bore is easy to clean, it doesn't foul with copper nearly as bad, accuracy seems to become more consistant, and Flyers become less prevalent.
I agree with your take andhave a similar process. Think about it, a scenerio for you. Say that many productions rifles that you can buy will likely not really need a break-in and shoot just fine for hunting, but some are particular and require a proper break-in to achieve best accuracy and lack of doing an appropriate break-in will affect accuracy down the road.How would you know if your rifle did or did not need the break-in? You don't, so why not do the work up front, eliminate the variable and just treat all new rifles as needing an appropriate break-in. Just my opinion.