How do you clean your centerfire rifle?

1. Clear rifle
2. Squirt some windex down the barrel (new strategy from my gunsmith...loosens the carbon amazingly) let it sit for a few minutes with a patch in both ends to catch drizzle.
3. Quick scrub with the chamber brush.
4. Dry path patch/windex patch/dry patch until most carbon is gone, usually 2 runs.
5. Sweets 7.62 back and forth for a minute (bore guide and solid rod)
6. Dry patch
7. Repeat 5 & 6 until blue goes away, usually 3 patches or so
8. Chamber brush again with Eezox
9. Chamber brush wrapped in a dry patch.
10. Bronze brush with Eezox 5 times or so
11. Eezox soaked patch
12. Dry patch
13. Repeat 11 & 12 until clean, usually twice
14. Wipe down steel with Eezox, grease where needed.
 
Bore Tec. Run brush soaked in bore tec down barrel 10 times. One clean patch with bore tec. Then run one more wet patch soaked in bore tec. Come back in 4 or 5 hours and finish.
I clean my rifle after every range trip or every match. Don't matter if it was 20 rounds or 100 rounds. When done I run one more patch with bore conditioner down barrel,one dry patch and put away till next time.
 
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