I clean my gun every time I shoot. I use Hoppes solvent down the barrel, dry patch and then Breakfree CLP on patch. I then saturate and wipe the trigger, bolt, stock and everything except the scope with Breakfree CLP. A guy at the range says he uses a boresnake with Remington gun oil saturated on a bore snake on a new barrel every few shots till maybe 20 shots to season it and then does not clean it further unless a lot of shooting. During hunting season he does not clean the gun till after the season (says he only shoots about 5 shots during hunting season). At the end of hunting season, he uses a solvent and then the remington oil. He says Remington oil dries and still lubricates while Breakfree CLP dries but does not lubricate. Says if you clean the gun with Remington oil soon after you shoot, the carbon does not set up in the barrel and is easy to clean out. Don't need a solvent except maybe once a year after all the shooting is done. He uses Remington gun oil all over the gun including stock, trigger and bolt. I started doing the same thing but using M-Pro 7 gun oil LPX in the barrel with a bore snake and oil all over the gun. Is the M-Pro good stuff???? Not going to use solvent only once a year. I think I will be shooting no more than 200 rounds a year. What do you guys do to season the bore and clean your guns??? Seems everybody now makes a gun oil.