Lots of great advice here.
I'll be honest, the only thing that touches my gun during the hunting season is spit.
I'm certainly not knocking folks and their cleaning routines, guess I am offering up myself as a worst case scenario and what you "could" get away with.

I know that goes agains allot of tradition about cleaning guns and all, but from the day season starts here, till the day it ends, my gun stays loaded (of course, I cap it before I hunt). I hunt almost every day, either for an hour or two before work or an hour or two after. I leave my gun loaded for 4 days at a time, max. If it goes longer, I'll either pull the load or shoot it. On occaision, I get the urge to shoot it 10 or so times, I also shoot it if there is any change it has been bumped. Even then, between shots and after the last shot, same routine. I have found that consistancy is the best friend of a muzzle loader. Perhaps because mine is consistantly dirty I do so well!!!!

Between shots, I do two spit patches on both sides and then a dry patch on both sides and reload. Then back into the case in the back seat of my F-250.

At the end of the season, I clean it very, very well. Including sabot plastic remover.
Of course, I couldn't do this if it wasn't stainless and I think the fact that it is an Encore helps it stand up to my abuses.

After two and a half seasons, despite all the hours in the woods and how much it has been shot, it may not be as pretty, but it shoots BETTER than when I bought it.
R
Hank