Rain or other bad weather guns.

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Does anyone else have dedicated bad weather or Rain guns? I run the Skeet at my gun club and we shoot all year round and in pretty much all weather. I don't like to get my Nice guns soaking wet, so I use "Rain" guns. I have 3 that I use, The first is an old win Model 12 12Ga with a ploy choke. My next go to is a Remington produced Browning Auto 5 in 20Ga. The last is an old Stevens 311 410 sxs.I alway's make sure to dry them out and oil them after and have used them for years.

What do you Guy's and Gal's like to use?
 
Remember shooting trap years past in a ice storm with 30mph wind and having a icicle hanging off my nose . Don't do that anymore. Water is for mixing with Scotch Wiskey and swimming.
 
I’ve shot my Benelli with a camo finish in torrential down pours when hunting birds. The worse the weather the better the hunt was. Just wiped it with an oily rag at home and good as new.
 
As far as wet weather goes, I'd prefer to have sidelocks so I could remove the works and dry them out. Of course you can dry out a boxlock but you can't see much of what's happening otherwise.
 
My nice guns aren't likely to come out in bad weather on purpose. (Although this is Alberta and known for unpredictable weather.) If, for some reason I choose to go out on an inclement day, I have a 686SP in 28 ga or my 12g SX3. Can't say those are dedicated to foul weather though.
 
My Winchester SX 3 with plastic stocks works in rain, snow, mud, whatwever. My plastic Remington 11-87 was as good. My old Model 12 was reliable but a PITA to disassemble and dry out.
 
I have a Browning Maxis auto with the composite stocks I use as a rain, spare loaner or when I just feel like shooting it vs my O/U’s. I bought extended choketubes for when I use it for sporting clays.
 
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Were the marine magnum style shotguns all marketing?
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Not hardly, IMO. They are made for boats, canoes and kayaks, plus other situations where you can't come home to a warm room and dry towels and such. And at any time, my marine mag was a gun I was happy to take out in a daylong downpour, although restricting and unrestricting the magazine tube was tedious and the open choke a bit of a concern.

The double barrel I've mostly taken out in some seriously wet conditions is my Browning SXS and while I always fretted about what was happening internally despite all my efforts with oil and such, when taken apart after many years it was to all appearances as good as new inside. The one place the gun did rust was on a single bolt inside the release latch of the forearm, and that was and is easy to protect with some gun grease.
 
My Baikal and arizaga sxs 12ga guns see the most use in rainy wet and stormy conditions. My Ithaca pump has had the bluing worn off from use and yet never rusts no matter how bad the weather. Spray and wipe off with g96 and it's good to go

I will say the absolute worst gun I've used in the rain was my Mossberg 535. The receiver turned a purpley color and the barrel turned brown and pitted within 10 hours of being placed in an open soft case and laid behind the seats of my truck while I went to work. The rust came off but the pits are lasting scars to remind me not all guns are created equally. I still use the gun for rough work it's a deadicated turkey gun now as my Redfield scope turned the same purplish hue. I miss using it for skeet but the custom turkey choke splattered everyone with bits of wad thru the porting
 
No sir, I shoot what I own. Now as I age though I will usually sit out a rain day but there are days you get caught in bad weather regardless of planning. Even on dry days my gun would get wet hunting waterfowl from a boat any time my dog made retrieves. When he came back in the boat and shook himself off everything got wet, me included! Lol
I no longer hunt water or own a dog and some days I miss it, especially the smell of a wet dog lying on the floor of the truck, head on the transmission hump sound asleep, the heat blowing on him getting himself dried off and warmed up.
 
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After being a self-described "blued steel and walnut" kind of guy, my last two purchases were synthetic stocked guns. I guess I have my wet weather guns now.
 
If expecting bad weather, I’ll rub on a coat of paste wax over the wood and metal parts. That seems to do the trick, no need for ‘bad weather’ guns.
 
Oh great, now I read this from no less an authority than Purdy, in their discussion about their new field gun:

“One of the very exciting features is our exclusively developed anti-corrosion coating to protect against rust. This special coating is applied to all the internal parts of the action. Given the very fine tolerances on handmade guns, rust can be the cause of a large number of mechanical and functional problems. We believe that by helping to negate this problem it represents a huge step forward in our gun making,” adds Ambrose.

https://www.thefield.co.uk/news/new-purdey-sporter-47433
 
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