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The temps in this area are interesting. The south shore of Lake Pontchartrain is about 5 degrees warmer than the north shore in the winter. Surrounding areas had a frost in November. We'll see temps in the upper 20s Wednesday. We generally see a few freezing days a year. In 2013 we had ice on our roads in what was one of the coldest winters on record. In 2016 (IIRC) the surrounding area saw significant snow.

going to 29 in the morning

Damn... looks like Wisconsin. I spent some very long extended stays in Ruston for work.

When I lived in Wisconsin we had a winter league match. January 8th is was 7 below for the first match!

An excellent video...he does a great job and has the wins to back up recommendations.

I don't JB the throat area but do a bit of burnishing instead. I shoot one and clean for the first few rounds just to see what the patches are showing me. Once that settles down...usually 3-5 shots with the burnishing technique...I shoot 10, clean and if the patches are what I expect to see I jump right to load work.

I've got a new barrel ready to fire that has been treated by a process that's supposed to help in break in. Not sure I'm on board with that as the chamber reamer is what generates most of the issue that breaking in takes care of. But I've seen some nicely broken in throats where the barrel still lays copper down about 2/3rds of the way up.

I'm not big on excessive cleaning. I just let the barrel tell me what it likes and clean lightly at an interval that keeps it accurate. On my 30BRs, they can go close to 100 rounds between cleaning.

2 cents worth over my first cup of Sulawesi....

Thanks for you response Al.

My lone 6 Creed. Great rifle now after a protracted trip back to Nosler. Topped with a Nikon M5 3-12x42. Good scope for a hunting rifle. Got it on closeout after Nikon bailed on the scope business.



This was before its trip back to Nosler.



This was after.

I remember reading about that a while back. What was the root cause of the accuracy?

Don Geraci barrel. Shooter.

No problem....just my approach. A buddy has a big name cut rifled barrel on one of his BR guns that just flat refused to 'break in'....that thing would load copper like crazy. Finally, two of us suggested that he just quit cleaning it and go shoot 50 rounds...taking a look with the Hawkeye every 10 rounds. Right at 40 rounds it just quit fouling. It's now one of his best barrels.

Off topic for a 'Scopes' thread but it's got bore scopes in it so it's probably ok.

Good information. Barrels do talk to us if we are listening.