Thread: In-between barrel cleaning

I clean mine after use, whenever they get fired. Cleaning just means a patches and a pull through, then couple of oiled patches until I am not showing any fouling, leave some oil in the bore. Doesn't take ten minutes.

I dont use special solvents or oils, or gels or cleanses or detoxes. (Come to think of it I don't even use gun oil. I use motor oil.)

I have to check mine in the gun safe otherwise they start to rust. Some rifles I have to run a patch down and oil again after a few weeks, others seem to sit just fine without extra attention.

Most nice rifles get ruined because the bore rusts and gets pitted. People just neglect them out of laziness, not because people shoot them enough to wear them out. I know people who consider themselves knowledgeable gun people, who don't even really know how to clean a rifle.

Once in a hut one of them watched me run a patch down the bore of my rifle one time in silence, and then said, you're going to wear the barrel out doing that.
I said its not going to last long shooting bullets through it then.
He then something that was even more witty, but I am telling the story and that part is not included so I can have the last word.