Nobody thinks scrubbing the bore with penetrating oil every 5 shots has anything to do with it?
Don’t get me wrong Kroil is great stuff, usually in conjunction with bore paste. Throw your cleaning rod away and run 30 rounds through it, then see where you’re at with it.
Maybe. There's a lot of "discussion" on the merits of the various break-in schemes. My Hawkeye AW .223 has started shooting better of late, no break-in involved, except a couple hundred rounds down the tube. Howa seems to think it's important to keep a barrel from overheating until it finds its happy place and the steel somehow aligns itself with the Universe or some such. Who knows for certain? As one piece I read said, it probably won't hurt anything.
Agree about just shooting it for a while to see what happens. Pretty sure both my Hawkeyes like being dirty.
