Break in new handgun

[FJoakley]

Do you guys do anything special to break in a new hand gun? I know I did some shoot/clean/shoot in increments to break in my AR. Not sure about hand guns.

[Delfuego]

If its a Glock you will need to kick it down a gravel driveway, just to get the new handgun smell off of it!

[cstone]

Clean it. Light lube. Run it till you get tired or run out of ammunition.

Repeat as often as possible.

My recipe for breaking in any gun.

[spqrzilla]

The shoot / clean / shoot cycles of "breaking in" a rifle are meaningless at best. Modern rifle barrels do not need to be "broken in" and gain nothing from it.

A semi-auto and especially semi-auto pistols can often use a period of a few boxes of ammo to wear in the moving parts. Some guns show a propensity to not operate well for that first couple of boxes. You want to shoot 'em enough to feel confident that they are running right.

[Great-Kazoo]

Most handgun mfg suggest 3-500 rounds of break in before you send a hand gun back for function issues. Load mags, go to range, place eyes & ears on self, shoot, repeat actions.

[Tim K]

Lube. Shoot. Lube again when it looks dry. I like 'em running pretty wet. No need to clean if you don't want to.

[Whistler]

Like to run mine wet too but it does collect a bit of dirt so I clean them a bit if they look gritty.