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Offline hh4064

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« on: January 17, 2005, 07:15:35 AM »
I am anxiously awaiting
my new barrel job to be finished. I have read article after article about barrel break in.... They all tell a different story. What do all of you out there say about breaking in a new barrel??????????

Offline Rick H.

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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2005, 01:46:04 AM »
First I would check to see what the barrel manufacturer has to say about barrel break-in, then I'd ask the smith that mounted it for me what he thought about what the manufacturer said.  There's more than a few that feel break-in is a waste, especially on a custom barrel.  

I have had a couple nationally known smiths tell me that I should do it if I felt it would make me more confident in the barrel, but that the barrel really didn't need it.