When I want to JB Bore Paste a rifle, I first clean the rifle bore spotless. Then put a coat of oil in the bore. Next have a number of patches, a cleaning jag, all the stuff you might need, and the bore paste. It helps to have the barrel in a vice or a helper. Take a tight fitting patch, smear it with the Bore Paste, and then start the process. Work in long smooth strokes muzzle to breech. As you work the bore you will actually feel if there is a ruff spot sometimes, through the ramrod or the way it slides. Pay special attention to those areas..

After 15-20 stokes of the Bore Paste, change patchs and work another patch through the bore... Depending on how the bore feels, I have done as many and four patches with twenty strokes each. After that give the rifle a real good cleaning. I like to start with a hot soap and water bath. Then run some solvent patches through the bore. And finally a brass bore brush with some solvent. I scrub the bore good, and then solvent patch it a little more. This is to make sure all the bore paste is out of the bore. Then dry patch it and be sure and put a new coat of oil in the bore because you have removed any protection to the metal that might have been in there.