Barrel "Conditioning".

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Yet, on the air arms website, it recommends cleaning the barrel every 100 to 150 shots. Going by this, you would clean the barrel, condition it, then only get about 100 shots before it needs doing again. I would assume that air arms would know what they are talking about, but I think it's muchly overkill.

[blind dog]

I just run 2 oiled patches through to fight rust in storage. Then 2 dry ones before shooting to suck up the oil. They never seem to need cleaned beyond that and it doesn't seem to erase whatever conditioning I got, but I always shoot 10-15 through if I'm changing pelets before trying for accuracy.

Rob