I like to try to recreate the bore condition that I will have when hunting. I shoot BH209 so I don't need to swab but when I practice I am shooting to better my hunting load. I start by running several try patches to get as much oil out of the bore as I can. Then I run an alcohol patch to disolve what remaining oil there is. Then a few more dry patches. Then I foul the bore with one primer. Then dump the powder in and then the sabot/bullet. I know it probably doesn't make that big of a different, but I ensure that one of the pedal openings on the sabot is at directly 12 o'clock when loading. I do this every time so in theory the sabot will be in the same position every time I load. After that I go ahead and take my shot. If the shot isn't dead center, I adjust my scope to make it dead center. That's the condition my bore is going to be in when hunting so that's the bore condition I practice with.

After I've fired I clean the bore again. I run a patch with Hoppes, then a dry patch, then flip that dry patch and run it again. Then another patch with Hoppes, then another dry patch, flit it over and run it again. Then another dry patch, flip it over and run it again. The I pull the breech plug and clean it. And then I fire another fouling primer. I do that in between every shot to recreate hunting bore conditions as closely as possible. Ususally that second shot is pretty darn close to where the first one impacted.