What is the best way to shoot your rifle with a completly dry bore or with light oil or solvent?

Hi, Balistic

For safety reasons, you should always reasonably dry the bore before you shoot it. Shooting a gun with any obstruction in the bore is a dangerous practice, with the exception of Moly cream, which is a kind of performance enhencement product for guns. Even that, the moly is wiped off with invisible amount left in the bore.

Pyrotek

one oily patch followed by two dry ones.

There should be no oil in the bore when you shoot your gun. It only acts to attract fouling. Oil is fine and recommended if your storing you gun, not shooting it.

Most of my rifles like a fouling shot or two to get top accuracy. Anything left in the bore just makes it worse. Just my $.02 worth.

I always shoot a fouling shot but still dry out the bore beforehand. It's hard enough to get that first shot where you want it to hit. Shooting from an oily bore only makes it that much worse. Some say the first shot will remove all the oil from the bore, but I'm just not convinced. I pack my rifles the night before going to the range. It's a good time to run dry patches through the bores. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

Balistic, Try running a wet patch of kroil through your barrel after you clean it, then two dry patches, the kroil 'seasons' the barrel and cleans any residue from your copper removers and other solvents, works for me. Jay