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Properly cleaning a rifle barrel has always been complicated and takes much longer than cleaning a muzzleloading longrifle.

Just a few years back, not many rifle barrels were cleaned down to the steel which is a necessity for proper breakin in the first place. Seems the norm is for someone to buy a rifle then go out and shoot off a box of ammo - handloads or more often, factory ammo to 'see how she shoots'. the guilding metal picked up by that first box of ammo has never been cleaned from the bore and is probably still there. Those who actually clean the rifle, run a patch or brush with solvent down the tube - maybe once in 20, 50 or several hundred rounds, then patch it dry and continue shooting.

The With the use of good solvents, I've found brushes are a thing of the past - I don't use them in any bore now.

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Darryl

Two items I find interesting in your post...as it seems with some the "barrel break-in" is not necessary...and yet, when one reads the sites of many "Top" end barrel manufacturers..most suggest this practice..I have done this on all my guns..and yes, they all seem to clean really easy, with the high end barrels all seem to clean just a tad easier/quicker than the standard factory barrels...I shoot once--clean, shoot once clean for 10 shots...then every 2 for 6 and every 3 for another 12..then every 5 for a few times...

The second item is that you no longer use a brush at all...I was told at a siminar I went too by Jarrett rifles that one needs to push a brush through to get out the copper and using a solvent all along won't do it...now this has been about 4 to 5 years ago so maybe before
Wipeout was even on the shelves in the local gun store..but none-the less, that is what they stated at the time...guess I need to invest in one of those "fancy" bore scopes and see how this all shakes out..was going to buy one before but was "scared" of what I mind find...

Ripp