I knew it would be gunky. I just wasn’t prepared for how gunky. I spent 45 minutes on a job that should’ve taken 20. I now clean it every 200 rounds not because the gun demands it, but because I do.
Cleaning five hundred rounds of carbon out of a barrel is a lesson you really only need to learn once. I cap now myself at two hundred rounds, because honestly my time is worth a lot more than my stubbornness.