Can't argue with that, Joe, nothing like doing five or six, particularly if there's a rifle in the mix.
My equipment for shotguns. Two cheap three piece rods. One has bore brush of appropriate dia. wrapped with 4 ought steel wool and handle removed so can be chucked in cordless drill motor. Other has handle and bore brush about which I wrap generic kleenex double or triple folded to fit particular bore and or chamber (tight or loose fit). Old Oral B 30s and cheap generic Q-tips. Put Ed's Red on everything that cleans or gets cleaned. Put Rig, vaseline and 3-in-1 mix, or Garand Plastilube depending on what's sitting there on everything that moves in contact after cleaning: not just the hook and pin but sides of the lugs, sides of the slot in the bar, rotary bolt slots, noses of sliding bolts, every surface of rotaries I can get at with the lever tripped, sides of extensions and extension slots and piercings, face of the breech wall, contacting radius of the ejectors or extractor, knuckle of bar and rule joint of forend. Little dab will do ya but I think it needs spreadinging around until everything is greasy. Before the lubing, my view is that if kleenex or Q-tip comes out black, it's still dirty. Cotton from Q-tips is not the best thing going because it can get caught on sharp tips and corners or recesses and linger in there but I look over this as it's such a neat little mini-swab.
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