I wonder how our fathers, grandfathers and even great-grandfathers killed anything since they just bought their old rifles and went out and shot em? If it rained or was dusty they MIGHT run a patch through them ever now and then.

Sometimes I think this whole "barrel breakin in/cookin" is sometimes over emphasized and if perhaps we are being sold snake oil? If anything, IMHO with todays tooling and metallurgy technology our barrels are better today then the best, hand tuned target rifles of yesteryear. Now perhaps it we're talking about edging out the competition at Camp Perry then yeah perhaps alot of worry and time might warrant itself. But for a hunting gun that is already capable of out shooting 80% of the public that will buy them today, I think just using the basics (quality ammo, a patch before and after each use and IMHO most importantly... NOT overheating the barrel and taking your time) will suffice for most meat guns.


HL