Question on gun cleaning

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

Over the years I have always cleaned my guns using nitro solvent etc. after finishing I would always put a few drops of oil on a patch and run it down the barrel and cylinders and over the entire gun very lightly, trying not to get it on the stock. I would usually use Rem-Oil.
I was told today by a friend, never put oil in the barrel or chamber! I usually use a very thin film of oil in them.
He said unless you are storing the gun for a year or more put nothing in the barrel after wiping out the solvent.

I live in the Boston area and it does get humid, the dry packs turn pink in a couple weeks.

I have always oiled and then shot without cleaning the bore of the oil before shooting.

Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

What is everyones advice, or is it a Coke vs Pepsi type of argument?

 

[OKFC05]

I have always oiled and then shot without cleaning the bore of the oil before shooting.

Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

Short answer, yes.
Oil the barrel all you want, but clean it out before shooting is the regular practice of the target rifle crowd. Oil can make the first shot a "flyer."

For handguns at short range, it is obviously less important for accuracy to wipe before shooting. However, when shooting pistol competition I do want the chamber clean and DRY, to avoid gumming it up with the extended shooting.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I mostly plink. I enjoy trap shooting, seeing things blow up! But for rifle and pistol I take the kids to the range and we shoot at 25 and 50 yards, sometimes at targets, often at clay pigeons and golf balls or old army figure toys.
Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much money and time and don't take it seriously,

But the bottom line is I really enjoy it!