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PJgunner, I have one client who doesn't believe in cleaning his barrels. He also doesn't use the barrels I recommend. They cost approximately the same as what I recommend. I use what he wants to rebarrel his rifles. He has them rebarreled quite often and the ones I take off are usually badly fouled. A .257 Weatherby didn't last him a month. He gave the entire rifle to another client, who went through a 2 week process of cleaning all of the fouling from the area ahead of the throat. The rifle shot fine after that.
I am certainly in favor of Gail McMillan having whatever policy he wants on his barrels and can even understand . I do not advocate using course grit in a new barrel or some of the other crazy things people might use. But I will still say a properly broken in barrel, (by cleaning to bare metal between shots), will foul less and give better accuracy. I believe the old practice of firing a few "fouling" shots was more to re-acquaint the shooter with the recoil than of any real benefit to the barrel. If you feel breaking in a new barrel is Bull ****, more power to you on your rifles. I will still recommend the practice.
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12-11-2010, 03:10 PM
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