How do you claen your gun. Yearly, or more often?

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After every use, or at least an outside cleaning once monthly. Before use, I clean the bore to get rid of any oil or dirt that may have gotten on the bore. Shooting to clean is perty dumb sounding. All you do is get copper lead and powder on your bore to corrode as it sits. I remove the stock of a weapon on a thorough cleaning after hard use in the outdoors, to get any water or dirt out. I clean the bore until patches are all clean, then the receiver gets a wipe down. After all is cleaned a few drops of gun oil are placed on a thin rag and wiped on outer parts. I find a q-tip can help get in the tiny spots otherwise left unknown. For shotguns, trigger and bolt assembly are removed after hard hunts, otherwise a bore and receiver cleaning hold me for awhile.