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These days I only clean bores when the accuracy falls off, and after years with most of the rifles, I know about when that’s going to be. The 220 Swift dirties fastest and needs cleaning after 25 or 30 rounds (old Douglas barrel). The Ruger Hawkeye 223 will go 50 rounds or more (Benchmark). The Tikka 260, with a cut rifled Brux barrel, seems to never foul. The others are about like the 223.
None of my rifles throw clean barrel rounds much (if any) outside of normal fouled barrel groups, but I always run two foulers through them before hunting or paper punching.
None of my rifles throw clean barrel rounds much (if any) outside of normal fouled barrel groups, but I always run two foulers through them before hunting or paper punching.