Thread: Barrel break-in

Just shoot it normally and clean it afterwards. Amounts to the same thing. "Barrel break in" is a voodoo that is a waste of perfectly good ammo. If a soft copper bullet could smooth imperfections in barrel steel, you wouldnt have a barrel left soon enough. And reading Howas instructions - what are you closing the pores of the barrel steel with? Copper? powder fouling? That you are then cleaning out? You are burnishing the steel with bullets? Good luck with your rifling if that is the case. Seal the barrel? Not keep it agitated? What is this horseshit. I am skeptical.