I've owned and shot four .17 Remingtons and I have never experienced the fouling problems that are supposed to accompany the cartridge. I know Carmichael has written that the fouling theory was started when initial batches of Remington bullets were too thin in the jacket. This supposedly caused bullets to come unglued and the cause was mistakenly put on barrel fouling by some writers. The myth kept getting reprinted.
No idea if this is true or not but it has never been an issue for me. And I very rarely clean rifles.
Travis
