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Posted: 10/17/2014 11:13:55 AM EDT
http://www.rifle-accuracy-reports.com/barrel-break-in.html





Proper Barrel Break-in

ensures long Barrel Life



Proper barrel break-in procedures are crucial for top accuracy and performance. More barrels are damaged by cleaning rods than by any amount of regular shooting a person may do. If not done correctly, one can do more harm than good.



The barrel break-in technique we endorse, is the "Speedy Method” named
after Speedy Gonzalez, owner of S.G.& Y Rifles.Speedy is well known
in Benchrest disciplines; national champion, world record holder, and
Hall of Fame inductee in the National Benchrest Shooters Association
(NBRSA)...............



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Link Posted: 10/20/2014 10:18:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: shotdown] [#1]
You'll get different responses to barrel break in. Some will do that procedure you posted. Others, like myself, will just shoot, chrono and clean it when I get home. Then I shoot it again another day and do this until I reach 200 rds. Then I chrono once more to see how fast the barrel got.
Link Posted: 10/23/2014 12:41:06 AM EDT
[#2]
Originally Posted By ultramagbrion:
http://www.rifle-accuracy-reports.com/barrel-break-in.html

Proper Barrel Break-in
ensures long Barrel Life


Proper barrel break-in procedures are crucial for top accuracy and performance. More barrels are damaged by cleaning rods than by any amount of regular shooting a person may do. If not done correctly, one can do more harm than good.

The barrel break-in technique we endorse, is the "Speedy Method” named after Speedy Gonzalez, owner of S.G.& Y Rifles.Speedy is well known in Benchrest disciplines; national champion, world record holder, and Hall of Fame inductee in the National Benchrest Shooters Association (NBRSA)...............

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Thanks...

Just ordered a Lucas cleaning rod guide (thanks to this article) for my Benchmark barrel that should be here in a few weeks...after a 6 month wait for the barrel.  Now I have to wait 3 more weeks for the next run of the rod guides...

I am in no hurry....

Thanks....
Link Posted: 10/26/2014 7:12:22 PM EDT
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You'll get different responses to barrel break in. Some will do that procedure you posted. Others, like myself, will just shoot, chrono and clean it when I get home. Then I shoot it again another day and do this until I reach 200 rds. Then I chrono once more to see how fast the barrel got.
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Originally Posted By shotdown:



You'll get different responses to barrel break in. Some will do that procedure you posted. Others, like myself, will just shoot, chrono and clean it when I get home. Then I shoot it again another day and do this until I reach 200 rds. Then I chrono once more to see how fast the barrel got.
Oh , for sure . . . there's a hundred ways to skin a cat .





Listen and read everything you can and take it all with a grain of salt.......and try to listen more to champion shooters that are also notable gunsmiths and have access to nice bore scopes .





It's just a personal preference




Originally Posted By drmgallen:



Thanks....





No prob , Speedy's had a lot of decent articles in Precision Shooter over the years , shame that magazine went under ...I only found out last week
 
Link Posted: 11/23/2014 7:31:59 PM EDT
[#4]
There are a lot of different break in methods/ beliefs.  Speedy built many rifles for me personally all the way back when he built them out of his garage in Arlington TX until he sold his business to Stick and moved to Trinidad CO to teach his trade.  If you have ever gone through a "clean and shoot, repeat" 1-20 round process.  You can actually see that the barrel and fouling level goes through changes if you pay attention.  There will be changes and eventually, typically in the 10-15 round count, the cooper fouling will completely disappear or "shoot out". It is hard to dispute once you have witnessed it happen, especially after many multiple times of witnessing it happen, that breaking in a barrel is actually doing something.  That said for those here that know Speedy on a personal level, he was pretty non-challant about barrel break in later on.  Yes he wrote that article but his opinion changed later in his BR career and he didn't go through a specific process. I still do it religiously and he gave me a hard time about it every time I mentioned it.  So even people with ideas about things change their minds.  My self I do it, I see a difference, I don't have the experience Speedy did and apparently he decided it disn't make a difference......so take from that what you want .  
Link Posted: 2/9/2015 2:53:52 PM EDT
[#5]
I have one question in regards to the article listed above....I have always been taught to never mix sweets with any other solvent as it could start a reaction and cause damage to your barrel - in that article speedy essentially mixes sweets with bore shine since he states to not patch out the sweets first. My question is: is this process ok? Or should I really brush and patch out the sweets first before going in with a Hoppes  #9  or other solvent etc?

Also he states to use brake Kleen or zippo lighter fluid...is this ok as a last step or should I go back with an oil or Hoppes #9 to finish it off as brake kleen is known to clear out all oil and solvents as well (so the barrel would essentially be completely bare)?

Thanks!
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