Thread: How far do you go with cleaning?

With my blued walnut rifle it gets a oily patch down the barrel every outing regardless of shots fired and the same patch over exterior metal.
If its fired a few il run a oiled patch(tight) down it till it comes out clean.
around 50 to 80 rounds il use a solvent to remove any copper/carbon.

If you use a good quality protectant oil on the exterior and keep it maintained you dont need to panic about removing the stock to oil under there. It will rust on the top from your sweat or just from oil being rubbed off and damp conditions.
I really only pull my stock off if something is obviously jammed between barrel and stock or after the roar when the whole bloody thing is full of "bush dust" or a week long trip of rain etc.

Rechecking zero its never bang on but always within an inch of where it should be.