What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

Do you have a break in the barrel of a .22?? And if you do have to break it in what will happen to the barrel if you dont break it in??

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

Umm the best way to break in any barrel is to shoot it.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

If you didn't clean it before you shot, just do it after. Shouldn't be an issue. Rarely clean mine. Generally speaking, try and clean any gun before you take it out to shoot, shoot, then clean again. Definitely not a big deal here though.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

Clean it before you shoot the first time at least, sorry should've proof read.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

but like what will happen if i didnt break it in i got the gun in march and first shot it in march so it wasn't recent and i always have cleaned it after i shot it

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You'll be fine breaking in doesn't have to do with a time frame it deals with the number of shots. Clean shoot - Clean shoot - Clean shoot. Breaking in just smoothes out the kinks of the rifle and causes things to "settle" it becomes more accurate as it "settles". It doesn't ruin the barrel because you didn't "break it in" during the first month.

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22s shoot all lead bullets and as long as you clean them once in a while,that'll be good enough. You didn't state if you've got a semiautomatic or manually operated action. Your worst worry will be powder residue clogging the action and trigger group-especially with semiautos.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

its a CZ 513 Bolt Action

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I've never worried about breaking in a barrel. I just go out and shoot it and enjoy it. When we think about it we will run a cleaning patch through it. All my .22's have several thousand rounds through them with no problems at all. We may shoot over 1000 rounds on a weekend through one without cleaning the barrel until we finish.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

Just clean it and oil it before you shoot it next. And when you are done shooting it, do the same again. There is not much to break in on a 22, especially a bolt action. Breaking in a gun is an over rated thing for run of the mill, walk and stalk or plinker guns. Probably the best thing that you can do for a new gun is to clean it and oil it before you shoot it for the first time, then after that its all about maintanance. For competition, long range shooting guns, a break in cylce is a good idea for them.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

To break it in you have to clean it first,then you cango shoot and target practice.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

Assumeing you are refering to a 22 rimfire?

NOTHING at all will happen!

Just enjoy your 22lr and stop worrying...

BTW, i don't own a 22lr that was "broke in"...

DM

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

just shoot it! its a 22, its meant to be shot and shot and shot again, you cant kill them. Just clean it evey now and then and dont worry about it. :)

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I don't think that a .22 rimfire will ever really "break-in". Between the low velocity (1100fps +/-100fps), soft all lead bullets, tiny powder charges and low pressure, you could shoot 50,000 rounds before you'd see any measurable difference in the bore. One thing it will do is get a bit of lead wash in the barrel. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as all the .22LR's I've owned shoot better dirty. The worst mistake I ever made was cleaning my 10/22. I've had it for at least 10 years at the time and it'd never had the bore cleaned after at least 15000 rounds. One day I got the wild hair to give it a thourough bore cleaning, so I scrubbed the crap out of it until it met my definition of "clean" for a CF rifle. Well, the nest time I shot it it was all over the paper. It had consistantly shot about 1.5" at 50 yards. Post cleaning it was like 5-6" at 50 yards. It took almost an entire brick of ammo before it got back to where it was before. The bore's never been cleaned since!

Don't sweat it. Break in is something that MIGHT be beneficial for some high-powered CF rifle barrels, and that is a subject of vigorous debate and the benefits are highly subjective. Just shoot your rifle and have fun with it. Keep the action clean for sure, and clean the bore if you are so inclined.

Mike

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

I don't know that I ever worried about breaking a gun in. As soon as I get one, I clean it, sight it in, then clean it again. The next shot after that will either be to test handloads or shoot game.

I used to shoot 3-5 bricks of .22lr through my old .22 a week. I didn't break it in, just cleaned it after about every 100K rounds.:D It still shoots true.

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You are in serious trouble that is a mortal sin.I bet ytou are the same guy that tears the tag off the matress!!! Dude just clean it and shoot it some more and have fun its not that big of deal!!!

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

I love to hear people tell other people not to clean their guns. [:'(]

I don't "think" you can hurt a 22 by the way you break in. Go ahead and follow the factorys cleaning and break in proceedures now.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

A .22 doesn't need to be broken in like a high powered centerfire rifle. The combination of slow speed and soft lead won't harm a barrel. Use copper plated bullets and pull a bore snake through it every once in a while. Just like what stalkingbear said, powder residue in a semi-auto action causes more problems than a dirty barrel.

RE: What will happen if i forgot to break in a .22??
 

On the 1st shot it will shoot great.
On the 10th shot it will still seem ok.
On the 25th shot you will hear a little crack.
On the 50th shot the barrel will melt from the friction of the high caliber bullet your shooting.
Once you re-barrel the gun:
On the 51st shot the barrel will again melt and your fingers will fall off onto the ground.
Once you put your fingers back on and re-barrel the gun....again:
On the 52nd shot the barrel will again melt, your fingers will again fall of onto the ground, and your wife will shake you out of the dream only to tell you it's time to go to work. :D