Thread: How far do you go with cleaning?

I was recently talking to a guy that I shot with in the 1960,s. He was a profesional shooter and went on to meat shooting then live dear recovery.
The subject came up of rifle cleaning. He went on to talk about his favourite rifle which was a .222 BSA Hunter. In those days he had never heard of copper fouling and he only ever put a pull through with some Youngs 303 oil on it through the barrel if it had been particularly wet. That rifle went on to shoot over 5000 deer and chamios as well as the odd thar at an average of 1.7 rounds per animal. As he was prepared to shoot out to 300yds plus if necesary then the accuracy was not to much affected by what we would call today an inadequate cleaning procedure.