Originally Posted by
pisgah
I have a friend who awears by his elaborate break-in procedure and applies it to every new rifle he buys. He's a fine, intelligent fellow and may be right. But there is one question he cannot answer -- how do you know it wouldn't shoot as well if you just ran a patch thru the virgin barrel and then shot the heck out of it any ol' way? Even with 2 identical rifles -- well, each one is unique to begin with, and you can't make a valid comparison, unless it's putting each thru the same course of fire with loads as near-identical as possible and concluding, "A is more accurate than B.". It simply defies objective quantification. Like religion, you either believe, or you don't -- you cannot prove it to anyone in this life.