Originally Posted by
R93
IMHO you should clean a rifle bore as few times as possible. Adverse conditions aside if your happy with the rifles accuracy keep shooting it till is looses it a bit remember how many rnds it took to taper off, then clean the barrel. I hardly touch my stainless centrefire barrels, I coat my slugs with HBN which means my barrels require a couple of patches every 100-150 rounds. There is something wrong with the barrel if it fouls too easy and a shiny bore doesnt mean its clean.
I wouldnt get too hung up on it at all as long as it shoots. The fastest way to ruin a military weapon was the over cleaning regime that used to be common place.