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I’ll leave a light wipe of Shooter’s Choice in a barrel after cleaning, and that’s all it gets till I clean again, which might be months or longer.
When my Dad passed, I brought his old tang safety Ruger home to give it a good cleaning. I guess he had it for maybe 20 years, and if it got cleaned, I did it. I remember cleaning the rifle and bore maybe 3or 4 times over the 20 years. He was a hard core hunter -rain, sleet, snow, fog, whatever. I expected the worst when I cleaned the bore, but it wasn’t bad at all. I worked up some moderate 270 reloads, and it shot great groups.
So maybe it doesn’t matter too much whether or not you oil the bore lightly or not. But I wouldn’t grease it unless I planned to degrease before shooting or unless I was going to store it for a decade.
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