cold bore shooting

I was pretty clear about the casual shooter using a schedule in the first sentence of my first post.

I see; I just read that as based solely on the number of sessions with no regard to round count. That is a schedule to be sure, but to continue with the car analogy, the same as changing your oil every ten trips, regardless of mileage. I was just looking at it as round count being the metric to use for consistency, that's all.
 
Every barrel will have different characteristics. I've owned many many different rifles..some shot well right after cleaning some shot well after a number of shots but I always do a cleaning after I hunt or after I shoot steel/targets.
 
I don't clean my barrel until my groups open up. After every session is too much, imho.

I used to clean my rifles back to bare steel. It sometimes took up to 8 shots to get the rifle shooting consistently. Then I watched a YouTube video about leaving your rifle in a state of copper equilibrium, which basically means let the copper build up and at a certain point no more builds up. I have been doing that for a year or so and get way better results with the first few shots.
 
I have a much more "practical" outlook on cleaning my barrel;

I fire 20-50 rounds 30-06 a range session
I Boresnake before I leave he range every time
Every 3 range shoots I used the product Wipeout, then patch the barrel

After I get a clean bore I shoot 3-5 rounds as fouling shots. I just use those as warm me up shot anyways to get my head in the game.
 
Lead is a great decoppering agent (there is lead foil in artillery charge bags for this reason). I know a few shooters I respect who break in and foul their rifles with open based FMJ ammo to reduce copper fouling.
 
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