Here's the REAL answer


If you feel that breaking in a barrel helps you that much...then do it. Buy all the junk you feel like buying, sacrafice a chicken, pour goats blood down the barrel if it makes you feel better.

For me and in my years of experience...you clean the gun, you select a batch of ammo...go to the range and shoot. The when you switch your ammo to another batch to test for accuracy, you clean the barrel, shoot and repeat as many times as you switch ammo.
Once you find your "best" ammo for the gun - you stick with it....when your accuracy degrades, you clean the barrel....and then start shooting again.

You will greatly improve your technique with your rifle by shooting, not by cleaning. Now for some minor technical details...often times a little lead in the barrel is a good thing, it fills in some of the very minor imperfections that are found in ALL barrels. That being said... if you THINK that you will improve the accuracy of your barrel by seasoning it or "breaking it in" ...you are barking up the wrong tree. If your barrel is not accurate from the factory, nothing short of rebuilding the whole barrel to including the contuor will help...and even that wont help.

My axiom:
Shooting is improved by shooting.