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Posted: 7/8/2009 11:07:57 PM EDT
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I still like my AR's, but I'm graduating to a "real" rifle next week (new, loaded/walnut/SS). So for any other new M1A owners, post up!
What I'm wondering is, do you M1A Seniors recommend a particular barrel break-in method? I'm sure I'll have more questions down the road, so checkyalater. Of course, pics when it arrives. 
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Many suggestions for barrel break in.
The one I use has worked well for my stainless steel barrelled rifles. 1.Shoot one round and thouroughly clean bore, do this for five shots. 2.Shoot five shots and thoroughly clean bore, do this for five strings of five shots. 3.Shoot ten shot string and thoroughly clean bore, do this for five strings of ten shots. After this settle in you may shoot and clean rifle as you normally do. I will decopper bore after every 200 rounds fired. I can't say for sure if this increases accuracy because I have not tested the barrels prior to settling them in, but it does seem to make cleaning and decoppering much easier than my standard barrels. |
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I still like my AR's, but I'm graduating to a "real" rifle next week (new, loaded/walnut/SS). So for any other new M1A owners, post up! What I'm wondering is, do you M1A Seniors recommend a particular barrel break-in method? I'm sure I'll have more questions down the road, so checkyalater. Of course, pics when it arrives. Sir, check out the Krieger barrel web site at: www.kriegerbarrels.com. There is a link to a cleaning and breaking procedure along the right margin of their home page. I've used their procedure for many years and have always been pleased with the longevity of my barrels. HTH, 7zero1. |
| New barrel: Clean with solvent and patches to remove any grit or oil from the manufacturing process. Then shoot it. At the end of the range session, clean it. I've done this for Douglas, Hart, Pacnor, and Krieger barrels. For .30-06, .308, and 5.56mm, they usually become unacceptably accurate for 600 yd use by about 4,500 rounds. I have worn out over two dozen barrels. The only time I did the "break in" mojo was with the first expensive Krrieger barrel I had. All it did was wear out part of that 4,500 round barrel life that I paid big money for. |
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Do what you want but the break in works well for me.
If you are shooting for the AMU, you can have barrels replaced at your request regardless of round count. 4500 is a low round count, I see barrels settling in at 4500 rounds, not opening up. Personally, I can't afford two dozen Match grade stainless steel barrels @ $400-$650 each barrel. American tax dollars at work I guess. |
| AMU dumps barrels at about 2,500 rounds. My barrels have all been out of my own pocket and I don't scrap them until groups open up at 600 yd. "Usually" this is at about 4,500+/-500 shots. The first Krieger I had was for an AR15 and it kept shooting better and better for the first 800 rounds and then leveled off at excellent. No way would I push 800 "break in" shots off to start at excellent. |
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Thanks for the barrel info guys! Another question... are the CMI mags g2g versus the Springfield? According to the description, the CMI is the same minus the Springfield logo and at 1/3 the cost.
http://www.44mag.com/prodinfo.asp?number=SA20 http://www.44mag.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CM20 |
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i'm fairly new to ar15.com but i've had my m1a socom for about 5 months now...
some advice: grease, not oil. clean the rifle upside down as to prevent oil from getting into the gas system. if it's got a glass bedding, try not to field strip as much as possible. as for the break-in... what I did was fire one, then clean, fire one, then clean- and so forth til about 50 rounds. then it was fire ten and clean, fire ten and clean, til 150 rounds. then i considered it broken in. |
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It's a semiautomatic rifle with a bunch of aparatus hanging off the barrel. Your break in probably won't touch the accuracy as much of that weight vibrating around.
Clean it and shoot it. If you have some special barreled supermatch with a bedding job you may want to go for the special break in procedure. Your rifle your choice. Personally I only do it for bolt guns with premium barrels. |
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It's a semiautomatic rifle with a bunch of aparatus hanging off the barrel. Your break in probably won't touch the accuracy as much of that weight vibrating around. Clean it and shoot it. +1 Clean, grease, shoot and repeat. +1 More barrels are damaged by internet mojo break in than shooting has ever done |
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