A comment I like to make when this subject comes up always seems to get over looked.
Its a new rifle, with a new scope on it, it needs sighted in right? so why not combine the two activites on your first trip to the range. It cannot be a waste of ammo when you have to shoot it anyways. It cannot be a waste of barrel life if you have to shoot it anyways, plus dont we always say not to shoot a hot barrel,so this would allow it to cool alittle. It cannot be a waste of time if you enjoy being out shooting. Taking all this into consideration, all we are talking about is cleaning it 3 or 4 times in the first 20 rounds or so right?
Now that I have said that, I dont shoot and clean every round, except for the first one. Then I will go 2 or 3 clean, then 5 and clean, and I am done. Most the time when I do it...its done in 15 rounds or less. I dont think it helps accuracy, I think it does help a new barrel clean easier by removing those first layers of copper fouling before they get heavy.
Its funny how they say they can sell more barrels because of the BBP. With that little difference in rounds down a tube, it would only take another match or less, maybe one week at the range, one trip to the range for a practice round, and they would need a new pipe anyways. Since no 2 barrels are or shoot the same, if neither were "broke in" what explains one lasting 200 optimum rounds longer than the other. Point is....barrel life changes from one to the next, who's to know how long it will go before you need a new one anyways.
Want to really know what cuts barrel life more than the BBP. Its all of us shooters that are never happy with how our rifles shoot with a certain bullet or powder. Then we shoot 100 or more rounds of ammo getting something we like. Then the next year somebody comes out with the latest and greatest cure all, kill everthing bullet, and we have to start all over again. If your a tinkering type of shooter that likes to try different stuff all the time, you will burn out a barrel just testing your own loads.
I think if it was called "Clean it a few times during your first 20 rounds" instead of "Barrel Break-in Procedure" it would go over alittle better. The word "Procedure" makes it sound like you HAVE to do it, I think thats what most people have a hard time with.
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