Everyone has their own opinion about the proper way to break a barrel in. Most of them are quite tedious and overkill in my opinion. Bore pastes and solvents are used in some of the more complicated break in methods that I found. Why make things so difficult? I like to go old school...I mean it worked for many years before all these new high tech methods were thought about right?
The method I finally came up with was pretty straight forward. I grabbed a couple boxes of the cheaper yet still fairly decent quality ammo from the local sporting goods store. The first 10 rounds we would shoot one at a time and then run the brush down the bore. Then the next 30 rounds we would shoot 3 round groups and run the brush down the barrel. Of course you want to make sure and let your barrel cool some during this whole procedure. It worked out pretty good and I feel confident that those 40 rounds took any burrs out of the rifling in the barrel that there might have been.
Another goal was to get the rifle on paper (I should have brought a bigger piece of paper). It took me quite a few rounds to get it in there where I could see it on the paper, by this time the barrel was pretty warm so it wasn't really giving me an accurate representation.
Taylor had only shot the .22 before this, so she was a little startled on her first shot. Her and I took turns doing some shooting, I could tell she was getting more comfortable. Exactly what I wanted to see...her having fun, and not looking at it like it was work. With much shooting left to do this summer before hunting season I feel she will be very comfortable executing any shots on game that we find.
Our next step will be developing some hunting loads for both our rifles and getting them zeroed in. It should be a fun summer indeed!
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