10-03-2011, 03:29 AM
Yutyut,
Your Templar barrel will not need to be broken in. If someone has a crap barrel with terrible bore geometry, like large crevices, rough edges on the lands, etc, then it might just need to be replaces with a quality cut-rifle pipe if you're going for accuracy anyway. The high-end barrel smiths, especially the ones that cut-rifle, usually lap their barrels pretty dang well, and they foul very little. There is no need to "break-in" such a barrel, other than shoot it. If you have a barrel that fouls like crazy, it needs lapping. The "break-in" procedures we often see involving shooting one round, jumping around 3 times with a firey hoolahoop around your neck and waist, shoot another round, etc. is an attempt to fire-lap the barrel with regular projectiles. I'm not a big fan of barrel break-in procedures, and neither are the guys I know who win matches regularly.
Your Templar barrel will not need to be broken in. If someone has a crap barrel with terrible bore geometry, like large crevices, rough edges on the lands, etc, then it might just need to be replaces with a quality cut-rifle pipe if you're going for accuracy anyway. The high-end barrel smiths, especially the ones that cut-rifle, usually lap their barrels pretty dang well, and they foul very little. There is no need to "break-in" such a barrel, other than shoot it. If you have a barrel that fouls like crazy, it needs lapping. The "break-in" procedures we often see involving shooting one round, jumping around 3 times with a firey hoolahoop around your neck and waist, shoot another round, etc. is an attempt to fire-lap the barrel with regular projectiles. I'm not a big fan of barrel break-in procedures, and neither are the guys I know who win matches regularly.