Thread: CRC or WD40 for maintenance?

Inox is king. It's all I use now in between hunting/shooting sessions.

Basically over many years of shooting I learnt that previously I was over cleaning my rifles. This reduced accuracy for the first 5 rounds or so.

These days I keep a log book of number of shots fired, ie just count the empty ones in the packet when I put the ammo back in the cupboard and record it.

For example:

If I go hunting and shoot 3 rounds, I just push a few patches with a light spray of inox on each patch until it comes out clean...normally 3 patches. Then put the rifle away.

Next time I may shoot some gongs, might fire 20 shots or so....same again, inox...Then put it away.

And so on until I get to about 80 -100 shots fired, then I break out the full treatment and carbon and copper scrub the bore clean. BUT it now pop a bore flag it the trigger guard as a visual reminder to not take that rifle long range hunting, as the first 5 shots will not be reliable enough until it gets a bit of copper fouling back in the bore.

The 80-100 shots is tested, and no loss of significant accuracy has occurred. I have a self imposed mental barrier about there...i.e. I clean then, but should try push it further to actually see when accuracy goes out the window totally? But properly cleaning every 80-100 rounds is way better than what I used to do, i.e. I'd fully clean after even just one shot fired on a hunt.