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#10MinuteTalk - Barrel Break-in – Does it Even Matter?

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🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ian Klemm joins Jimmy and Mark for 10 minutes to blow some minds. Does barrel break-in even matter?? Conventional wisdom says “Yes” and perhaps there’s some truth to that, but Ian would argue it’s not nearly as important as the internet wants you to believe and that you don’t need to waste a ton of time/ammo to get your barrel ready to shoot extremely accurately – Even with hand-made custom barrels! Tune in to hear why and let us know your thoughts on barrel break-in, too. This one was in response to a ton of feedback on our full-length Barrels podcast with Ian, so keep those suggestions, questions and ideas coming! Best spot to throw them out is on Instagram by messaging @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Mr Ian Clem who's joining us over from the

0:06.5

engineering department. He's talked with us in the past about barrels,

0:10.3

super long-range shooting, all kinds of really neat stuff.

0:14.0

And when we did our full-length episode on barrels specifically,

0:18.0

you talked about just, I mean, all things, barrels.

0:21.0

I'm sure there's, you could probably do a ton of different podcasts all about barrels. I'm sure there's you could probably do a ton of different

0:23.6

podcasts all about barrels and really dive deeper but we talked a ton in that one

0:28.5

and probably the most frequently asked question or topic raised in response to that

0:36.4

podcast was revolving around barrel break-in. Ian said he wasn't surprised when I

0:41.9

brought this up to him earlier because he gets asked

0:44.7

all the time about barrel breaking.

0:46.8

We've seen, yeah, everybody had their own thoughts on it, you got to do it, there's a certain number

0:51.2

of rounds you got to do, a certain kind of, of rounds you got to do a certain kind of maybe

0:53.8

ammo you got to use or something like that depends on the barrel I don't know

0:56.9

do you use a brush do you just use a patch sure do you clean it all that stuff why

1:02.0

are you even doing it?

1:03.4

Yeah, Ian what what are your thoughts on barrel breaking? Let's just start there.

1:07.4

So in general I will say that I don't break in my barrels.

1:12.8

And no one needs to break in the barrel.

1:14.6

Clearly Ian doesn't know what he's talking about.

1:16.1

Sorry guys, we're gonna get, good talk.

1:17.6

We'll just get somebody else on here who actually knows.

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