If your a competition shooter this keep shooting until the accuracy falls off makes no sense to me.. What if the accuracy falls off in the middle of competition. This is why most UL remfire shooters shoot clean barrels. They don't want accuracy to fall off in the middle of a card. Having said that, if your not a competition shooter it really doesn't matter when accuracy falls off and you can clean whenever,
Well, nothing was mentioned about competition shooting. Besides, competition shooters aren't shooting anything generic. Theyre shooting custom rigs with very nice barrels.
It sounded like we were talking about an off the shelf rifle here. For an off the shelf rifle being shot for general purpose, I dont think a whole lot of thought is required here, unless you just like cleaning your rifle.
The question was one of whether keeping oil in the barrel reduces copper fouling. I dont think so. Clean it, run an oiled patch, followed by a dry patch and shoot when youre ready to. Adding oil to wet the bore before you shoot isn't going to do anything but cause your first shot to be off on a seasoned barrel.
As far as competition shooting goes, are you proposing that a competitive shooter begins a match with a barrel where the last thing that went down it was a cleaning patch?
