Rifle/Shotgun Cleaning & Maintenace - What's your routine?

[Magnum_Willys]

I think when we say "cleaning" we mean removing powder residue and random chunks of junk as opposed to stripping copper which is an important distinction.

That's a whole nother question.... do you clean til copper is gone or not.....?   To me cleaning is getting patches coming out that aren't "blue". 

[HawkCreek]

I might run a boresnake through once in a while and I'll take one apart when I'm bored and want to tinker but I really dont worry much about keeping things sparkly clean.

[Jpmiller]

Huh, I like to clean everything up as clean as I can get it, shoot the rifle right before season and leave it dirty all the while hoping those few weeks of having a dirty rifle don't damage something. Seems I'm in the minority.