I would urge caution, we never have gun safety down pat and I as well as every other owner has had their oh *)*& moments. Never let the guard down there.
One area that really bothers me is the nonsense about cleaning rods and cleaning.
While I have a fiberglass swivel rod, aluminum is fine. People will swear up and down you can wear a bore out with embedded stuff in the aluminum (and muy glass rod)
No, what you have to have is a smooth rod made of unobtanioum with just a touch of Kryptonite in it.
Its better to keep the rod clean, its not going to end the world if not
Of course you need a rod guide otherwise life as we know it will end.
If you want to see rough, look in the bore of a button rifled or cut rifled barrel, ARGH!!!
Damned if they don't shoot just fine.
Has anyone tried to wear steel out with aluminum?
You don't even wear the barrel out shooting it, you eat out the throat with gas cutting.
Keep your rod clean (whatever one you have) and no, you won't wear a barrel out cleian it.
Look up the thread on Carbon Killer 2000 and Bore Tech Eliminatgor endorsed by Unclenick and myself.
The reason I got a boro scope was I wanted to see if I was cleaning right.
Sure looking at those messy button and cut rifled barrels is interesting, but cleaning right is what counts.
Hammer forged by the way are smooth, they generally don't shoot as well as the quality of sizing is not there (some do work extras to get it)