Originally Posted by
Dead Man
If you're cleaning right, you can't over-clean. I think the biggest problem with thinking you need to clean every time you shoot is that you'll get bored with it and the pendulum will swing to the other side and you'll tend to neglect them, after a while. These days a lot of people say don't clean at all, others say clean every time and in between for the hell of it; so you know reality is somewhere in the middle.
As to copper: I've personally never once de-coppered. Never. I'd never even heard of it, until I'd been shooting for a good 5 or 6 years, and thought it sounded pretty abusive and wasteful then. I still think it is.
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