I am no expert , but what i do is clean my gun spotless between shots , so i am always shooting a clean barrel .

I run two wet and two dry patches ( both sides ) down maybarrel after each shot. The last wet and dry patchare spotless .

This had worked great with both my Traditions pursuit pro and my new Encore .

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