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Not really - more likely to have problems from pulling a bore snake out at an angle (sawing it against the edge of the crown as you pull it through), damaging it with a cleaning rod, or bumping it against something. Doesn't take much to damage the crown on a 22.
It's a step target crown so I don't think I could have bumped anything. I hadn't used a cleaning rod for a long time before the problem started happening. I didn't even use the bore snake very often to be honest. I'm a believer in not cleaning a .22 any more than needed. Unless I start having a problem I usually won't touch a .22 with anything. But I did use a bore snake with a cloth pull string sometimes. I probably only cleaned the bore about once every 500 rounds on average. I don't remember cleaning the bore just before the problem came up but maybe I did.