ORIGINAL: bear6
HOW DO YOU BREAK A NEW INLINE IN FOR THE BEST SHOOTING.I WAS READING IN A MAGAZINE,IT SAID YOU SHOULD SHOOT IT OVER 150 TIMES.IS THAT TRUE.AND WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT WHEN THEY MENTION A SEASONED BARREL.MY GUN IS SHOOTING GOOD.IMSHOOTING A HALF INCH GROUP AT 100 YARDS FREE HAND.SINCE YOU ALL TOLD ME ABOUT TRIPLE 7. THANK YOU
If your shooting 1/2 group at 100 yards, please, please do nothing different than what your doing. Seasoning the barrel is a term used by
folks that use bore butter. Most folks clean their rifles with either hot soapy water or windex/rubbing alcohol mix. Most lube their gun after cleaning with bore butter or gun oil. I use bore butter in the field to clean after shooting, when at the range I use alcohol/windex or alcohol/windshield fluid to clean the bore and then shoot again. If your shooting 1/2 groups at 100 yards, your "dialed in" with the proper powder, load, bullet, sabot and primer. What gun are you shooting and what is the bullet,load of 777, sabot and primer? If you can shoot a 5 shot 1/2 group, then your cleaning/loading procedures and shooting are excellent, and if it is "off hand", I am amazed, 'cause that is shooting at it's finest.
As for a new gun being broken in, some use JB bore paste to lap the barrel 150 to 200 strokes. If you gun is shooting that accurate right now, I wouldn't change a thing. Must gun "wear in" after 150 shots or so or people lap the barrel to clean the machine burrs out of the rifle this enhances accuracy. I would say you already have an accurate rifle.
Chap Gleason