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This ^^^I start with a bit of this stuff: Bore Tech Eliminator Bore Cleaner | The Best Gun Cleaning Solvent From Bore Tech Get everything well coated and let it sit for 10 minutes or so. Then clean with some more poured on patches, then dry patches. It's seems pretty spendy to me but it really cuts through everything and has basically no smell at all -- it's worth it to cut down on the scrubbing. I don't know what the base is, but it seems like soapy water to me.
Because it does seem watery, I follow that up with a thorough cleaning with Hoppes to help drive out the water. Then after that CLP everywhere and on a few parts, like take-down pins, the barrels of rotating levers, bearing surface on rails, a very very thin coat of grease.
But I do that all at home. For the range I just have some bore snakes and little tubes of some random CLP which I can't find anywhere -- tiny little squeeze containers that won't seal but are so small I just toss them. It would be nice if there was some CLP that came in something like ketchup packets for single use. Anyway, I suppose an aerosol wouldn't spill.
Bore Tech Eliminator seems to be the crowd favorite.