I may have been doing something a little wrong for a while now.
With my rifles were new, I clean them out super thoroughly to get the grease that ships in it out. Mirror finish after this...
Since when when cleaning I do the usual process, and do finish do a single pump-spray of oil onto a patch and run it through the barrel for a thin coat.
When it's time to shoot the rifle comes out and off I go as is. I've done this a few dozen times or whatever now.
I read though that you should put a dry patch through before shooting a cleaned barrel, to clean out the oil protecting it.
I can't see anything wrong with the barrel, but am I likely to have caused a tiny bulge or small drop in accuracy by not having cleaned out that storage oil.
It's only ever a very thin layer from a single pass, not drooling out the muzzle or anything.
Hmmm