How often do you clean your barrel?

[DVS1]

Only when accuracy drops off - Sure I'm shooting one shot a week at a push - I feel this more related to range work? While stalking, a group could open up to the size of an orange and I probably wouldn't notice once the deer is on the ground

Let me explain further...if I miss what I would consider to be a straight forward shot and can't explain why the shot missed I may then investigate.

Check my zero first...did the rifle take a whack & zero is off for example.

Owing an ethical kill to our chosen query is paramount after safety so why wouldn't a shooter check his zero?

Some check zero before each and every outing and therefore perhaps noticing their rifles accuracy is opening up. Not just necessarily target shooting

 

[Brno2e]

Most of my rifles get a Boresnake with a squirt of Brunox on the snake as and when required.

The odd one out is my K31 that gets a brush pushed through the hot bore covered in Waffenfett grease. It must work as the bore on my 1943 rifle is mint.

I need to find some sort of alternative to it or drop lucky and find somemore.

 

[NullMac]

The range of answers here is wild. Here's my gripes with all of them and hopefully somebody can set me straight

There doesn't seem to be a standard method of madness to it.

No, you have a perfect grasp of the situation.

There are a wide range of answers 'cos few people can see what the effects are so they are blind to the results until/unless something bad happens. Bore is not pretty but how does it shoot? So do we care? Should we care? The world seems to go round just fine without a common approach. If all the barrels stopped shooting after a week there would be a standard approach v quick.