My advice is to decide for yourself what's "clean enough". This topic can very well become a, "what's the best rifle" kind of thing. In the end, you have to live with your own parameters.

Growing up, my Dad shot 3x to check the zero on his scope, then shot once during the season. He used some leftover military solvent that came with the place when we moved in. He reversed the patches to get 2 trips down the bore instead of just one, & he was more than happy with his routine. He'd then rub the solvent over the wood, just to make it shiny!

I shoot more often than he, and I found my cleaning could take hours and hours, and many dozens of patches. I decided that's more time than I want to spend, and that cleaning with less elbow greasewouldn't result in my gun disintegrating, even though some on sites like these have posited as much.

I now use Gun Slick foam for the bore, letting it sit for 2 hours to overnight. I feel comfortable plugging the ends of the barrel with cotton & letting it sit, knowing it won't eat the metal. I seldom use a bore brush, finding that the foam gets it done well enoughif I leave it alone to do its work. I've done the foaming cycle up to 5 times for 1 cleaning, but I don't have to sit there & babysit it.

Other than that, I use RemOil on a patch to wipe down the bolt & rails, & I'll pull out some Q-tips & tooth picks if I find some grime in hard to reach places.

And I don't rub solvent on the wood!

If you want to spend the time, go ahead on & do it. But there are plenty o' folks out here shooting 70+ year old guns, & getting their share of game, who swab 'em with Hoppes & call it done. You just need to decide where you fall between those extremes.

FC