oldrookie

Remember, I am shooting T7 if you are shooting Pyro it might be prudent to clean it well.

Another thing my damp patches are regular old blue windex - it has a bit of ammonia in it which serves to dry water and speed drying in the barrel, not to mention that it is death on T7 residue, just melts the stuff. It will take 3/4 windex patches to cleanmost of the residue from your barrel, then two dry patches and then a very lightly oiled, and I mean lightly oiled patch down the barrel, then a dry patch and your barrel will be good for the duration. Your barrel is still acutually fouled a bit but not heavily. Enough that your accuracy will remain the same.

Also, I do not remove the breech plug, I am a wrapper - I wrap the plug in teflon tape and it is good for thewhole season no matter how much I shoot.

The one thing that can change all of this is if I get the interior of the barrel really wet.... if I contaminate a load with rain or snow - then I will strip clean it and start over, because of rust not fouling.

I use this same procedure with stainless and blued barrels... I really believe the cleaning qualities of windex allow me to get away with this. Reminder the gun is never put away or stored any length of time on a fully fouled barrel, it would have to be damp patched and dryed.