my 336 30-30 was made in 1964, my dad bought it used for me around 15 years ago. I never cleaned the bore in that rifle in these past 15 years, estimated round count since ive owned it is probably 250-300 rounds and i dont know if it was cleaned before i got it. It still shot good groupings but this past January i broke down and did a really good cleaning on the bore and internals. She was deffinately dirty but i believe it couldve gone another 300 rounds with no issues.
I clean my pistols every range trip but typaclly only clean rifles every 60-70 rounds. For some reason i just never thought about needing to clean my marlin. I most likely wont let it go so long again without cleaning
