Pitdog85 wrote:Hi blade I don’t know if I would call it cleaning but after shooting I run a bore snake through the rifle. When I get home I spray in the barrel with G96 and the run a patch through with G96 to make sure the bore is well oiled. I do this for rust reasons as I live in coastal North Queensland where the humidity is out of control and things rust straight away.
I don’t know if I consider that cleaning more rust preventative. When I do an actual clean I use C4. Boretech and hoppes and use nylon brushes etc.
That is cleaning on a .22LR, you don't need to scrub it as most of the fouling is just wax lube, which also protects the bore. I don't run anything through the bore until somewhere around the 1200-2000rd mark, depending on each rifle and the ammo I'm using. When accuracy starts to falter I spray solvent through the bore, give it a few minutes, patch through until clean, fire a few rounds to settle it, then put it in the safe ready for use. If you're going to leave it in the safe for a while then you might want to oil the bore, but you're likely to find you have that point of impact issue with your first shots until you get the bore coated with bullet lube again. I clean and lube the action more regularly, and rub oil over all external surfaces very frequently, my rifles are generally noticeably oily when you pick one up.
I'm in Central Gippsland, we don't have your humidity but we have plenty of wetness and everything rusts very quickly, but I haven't had any issues with any of my rifles. My WW2 Arisaka grows mould on the wood despite everything I've tried, but it's never passed it on to anybody else
For range use I would just shoot some sighting groups before shooting groups for score or analysis it helps settle the shooter into it as well.