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Some thoughts on the bore seasoning. A guy at work bought a Browning 25-06 and had some accuracy issues and called the help line. They said copper fouling was his problem in their opinion, to fire one round and clean it it, and do that about 20 times, then 2 rounds and clean it, again a box of shells. He got his rifle to shoot the sub inch groups he wanted. For the muzzleloader lets avoid the copper plated bullets for the break-in period, and make sure we get lead fouling out between shots if shooting that style bullet. For any steel wool used to clean up the bore use the fine stuff right away, your trying to take burrs off, and that will do that. The rouge on a patch can be a chrome polish or even tooth paste, make sure it gets cleaned out good. Also a bore protector on the rod, a little brass cone at the muzzle, is VERY, VERY important when running the cleaning rod up and down for these steps. I think a lower powder charge helps in the break-in period, less residue to deal with and easier to shoot for a long time.