the 54cal barrel I got for my hawkens. It is the first barrel I'll have to break in since I got my rugar 96/22 (11years ago).

what products to use to help the break in?


do have jb bore paste.

I'd shoot it before trying anything...In my .40 and .54 custom flinters I never had to do anything except find out which patching, ball and charge they preferred...

Powder, patches, balls, percussion caps,and range time.

Actually, for a new barrel I like to give it afew (4 or 5) passes with a well oiled patch wrapped with #000 steel wool, thenshoot a box of Great Plains conicals and fully clean and oil the bore between each of thosefirst twenty rounds. It's a pain, but I believe (can't prove it) those long conicals hone the bore a little and it willfoul less with such a break in.

with that barrel i doubt you will have to do anything to the bore. Mine was smooth. I ran a couple patches wrapped around a bore brush and put some flitz on it. Its like glass inside there now.

don't have any flitz. would have to order it.

ALL guns ML, Rifle or Pistol should be broke in like Siemese said!

The badger barrels site gives a good decription of barrel break-in.