Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What do you tape your barrels with on rainy days?

I've been taping since before (Al Gore invented) the internet. A friend who didn't, couldn't chamber a round due to snow dust which ended up against the bolt face and and his 300 consequently couldn't do what 300s are good at when the opportunity to kill a nice bull moose arrived. A few years later, I was in too much of a hurry to locate some tape. I also didn't leave the rifle outside to cool off well before taking off. The warm barrel trapped snow which melted just inside the muzzle and froze. I don't know how I would have gotten the solid plug of ice out of there if we hadn't had a warm muffler against which to lay the barrel in the cold wind. A lighter sure wouldn't have done any good. I was also glad it was a 670 Winchester, not some finely blued rifle I was carrying at the time.