Running in HMR

[WGD]

There are many HMR users on here, how many ran in the barrel as you would a centre fire rifle?

 

Personally I would on the the basis that the magnum cartridge (compared to .22LR) is faster, dirtier and will leave copper deposits in the rifling but other people I shoot with have used the philosophy of there being no need to run in a rimfire.

[harv]

I can honestly say mine out the box shot aswell as it does now so in my experience load of tosh?

[Billy.]

I can honestly say mine out the box shot aswell as it does now so in my experience load of tosh?

 

Agreed.

[camokid]

same hear

[the running man]

And backed up here too! Straight out the box,my cz452 zkm american has not lost its zero in 3 years!

[wildfowler.250]

Just shoot it

[Ozzy Fudd]

going to have to disagree. my marlin's accuracy has been all over the place, shot perfectly the first few weeks, now its a disaster, needs cleaned every 20 or 30 rounds to maintain accuracy.

 

also know someone who has an aschutz that is having similar problems at the mo, but ill let him post if he wants.

 

both guns were brand new

[al4x]

should have got a cz

 

the yanks go a lot on running them in and lots on here claim accuracy improves after 250 rounds or so so I guess it can't hurt to clean regularly to start with not sure about after every round but certainly bung a few through clean and repeat and see how it goes

[Ozzy Fudd]

should have got a cz

 

the yanks go a lot on running them in and lots on here claim accuracy improves after 250 rounds or so so I guess it can't hurt to clean regularly to start with not sure about after every round but certainly bung a few through clean and repeat and see how it goes

 

i wanted something that felt like a proper gun, not a piece of balsa wood

 

im not too worried at the mo, im never happy with a new gun til i put at least 500 rounds through it so we'll see what happens after another couple of hundred

[vole]

going to have to disagree. my marlin's accuracy has been all over the place, shot perfectly the first few weeks, now its a disaster, needs cleaned every 20 or 30 rounds to maintain accuracy.

 

also know someone who has an aschutz that is having similar problems at the mo, but ill let him post if he wants.

 

both guns were brand new

About every single shooter at the club I go to say the HMR needs alot of cleaning and careful gentle cleaning at that,some say after 20 some 50. My target looked like I had used a shotgun until it had a clean,then I got good groups. I was holding off on cleaning till accuracy went so put 200 rnds through the 917,waiting for good groups. As it got dirtier it got worse though. Big mistake . The lack of consistency was putting me off using it in the field . One last visit to the range this Sunday as a confidence booster then off out on the crows all being well.

[ioan]

I have a CZ varmint, didn't really need running in shoots as good now as it did when i bought it, i clean it every 300 rounds or so!

[deputy dog]

My hmr fired true and accurate straight from the box. Some people swear by breaking them in like center fires. But in my experience. Open the box attach the sight properly and just shoot. Clean the barrel if an when necessary.

 

ATB

 

Gareth

[WGD]

Thanks for the various opinions, I will probably run it in anyway - if it does no good it will do no harm.

[Mr_Logic]

I don't run in a CF anyway, and they're fine too. Only thing with a CF is to make sure they don't get hot, that's not really an issue with HMR.