Your gun should be at least lube tuned if nothing else . If your gun has been lubed both internally and externally during the lube tune or tuneup process., it should never have to be lubed internally again for most average shooters unless it is tuned again in the future . For all intents and purposes, it is self lubing and should last for years. Use Rem-Oil on the wood and exterior metal.
Externally it should be lubed about every three thousand rounds or so, or once a year. It is a simple procedure. If your gun is put away for long periods of time, it should be fired every three months or so with about 5 shots or so it may lube itself.
The best lube to use is a mixture of moly and 30wt non-detergent oil. Mix it 1 teaspoon of moly to three ounces of oil. Shake well to be sure it mixes well. Lube very sparingly. I use a tooth pick dipped it the mixture and put only a drop or so. If moly is unavailable, use 30wt non-detergent oil, again, very sparingly.
First remove the stock by removing the two Phillips screws located in the forestock and the rear screws in the trigger housing. The assembly lifts out of the stock although sometimes it is a tight fit at the trigger end. Use a good Phillips screwdriver as these screws are often installed with LocTite during final assembly to keep them from loosening.
Lube all of the pivot points where you see the rivets, three or four drops spread out into the trigger mechanism from the trigger (bottom), both sides of the cocking pivot point or yoke, the barrel latch points taking care not to get any into the muzzle or port, three drops into the slot that you can look into the cocking foot and a drop or two on the cocking foot itself.
Cleaning the bore
The best thing for cleaning the bore is GooGone or Simple Green. You can find it at just about any hardware store, Wal-Marts and K-marts, and places like Home Depot or Lowe’s.
One way to do it is to use is a piece of trimmer line, the plastic or nylon line used on grass trimmers, cut to the length that is best for you, heat it on one end to create a small ball and on the other end cut it to a point. Then using .22 bore cleaning patches, push the sharp end of the line through the patch(s) ( you may need to punch a hole in the patches with a small nail or something similar), then put some GooGone on the patches and pull them through the bore. Do this several times first with the ones with the GooGone and then dry patches until they come through clean.
By the way, the bore doesn't have to be cleaned very often, maybe every three or four tins of pellets. The lead deposits accumulated in the bore act as a lube as well as a seal for the pellets and can increase both accuracy and velocity.
This should at least get you off on the right foot.
