ORIGINAL: eldeguello
ORIGINAL: bigcountry
Exactly NOT!! There is alot of gun experts with more experience than you or I that has alot of those pretty pictures you show, that disagree, including myself.
I've got about 20 years MORE EXPERIENCE than most "experts" alive today. This applies in particular to the ones writing in the gun rags these days.
And I have proven to my own satisfaction, with probably over 250 or so different rifles of different calibers since1952, that this break-in stuff is B.S.! Now, if you want to use up your ammo, barrels, and cleaning supplies that way, have a balland do it!
But just remember Harry Pope's statement - (I assume you know who Harry Pope was) - "More barrels are ruined with a cleaning rod than any other way."
I have hundreds of those little groups too eld. Does that qualify me to be an expert like you? I would agree with Harry's statement. Majority of shooters still to this day use three piece steel rods. I myself ruined a bore with them, so I can attest what he says. But alot of things have changed in the past 20 years.
My gunsmith has built more rifles than you, and is older. Does that mean he is a bigger expert than you?
Brian Pearce did a wonderful article on this, documenting using a borescope flaws in a new barrel and going thru the process showing them being smoothed out. Man, these people do this for a living, ok.
Your a very knowlegable gun guy, I rarely if ever disagree with what you say, usually we are always on the same page reloading ammo.
And I agree, break in can be a bad thing with a novice doing it wants a set bunch of rules.