how do you enlarge the headspace on a 1903?

LOL!!!!. Ok funnyboy, first off, since I am an apartment dweller, the kitchen is my workshop (when the wife is asleep) and I will break in the barrel saturday at the range. I am going to do the 1 shot, clean, shoot again, clean again 10X, then shoot 2 rounds before cleaning 5X till I have shot 40 rounds. does that sound correct or am I being a poindexter??. It is what my gunsmith reccomended. how say you?
 
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Sir:
Sounds like you're getting along fine!
I know how things are "when your wife isn't home" stuff! Be careful or you'll be in serious trouble! Wives are like nuclear weapons - they can go off!;):D
Harry B.
 
So what is the truth about Barrel Break in? I have never broken in a barrel. I usually clean and inspect new firearms before they go to the range. I fire 20-40 rounds on a rifle then a quick cleaning of the barrel at the range and a more detailed cleaning at home. I have never used any of that lapping paste on a barrel.

Is barrel break in another urban legend?
 


For most people, barrel "break in" is a waste of time - You run a risk of dammaging the barrel by cleaning it and it doesn't do anything for practical accuracy or barrel life.

In fact, the slight changes that happen in the first couple of hundred rounds of non-hand-lapped barrels actually will take longer and the eventual accuracy will take longer to settle out.

In the Kraut's case, though, that regiment sounds like it's just right.




-tINY

 
bbl. break-in

Tiny:
I agree totally with you about bbl. break-in. I usually clean after about 20 rounds - I use Douglas bbls. and they're about the smoothest made.
Harry B.
 
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