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

If you only knew a 1/10th of what you claim to know, you'd be a genius.

But you still don't get it. We have managed to kill hundreds of animals and not ruined our rifles. All this without the benefit of blue tape on sunny days...

If you feel the need to tape up the end of your rifle to keep from poking chit in it, be my guest. I don't have that problem.

Yep, saying the breech is sealed against moisture puts you in that group.

If it was, you wouldn't be able to chamber or eject a round Plato.

Lol. I think SH meant "brightest candle on the cake" or "sharpest tool on the shed" but mixed 'em up.

Has anyone mentioned that Modern Science has been showing that deer see blue well, and for that reason the close-quarters deer hunter might wanna go with a different color? Just innocently wondering.......

nothing in a deers environment that is blue is a threat to them.....they dont give a chit if somethings blue or not.....

JM fine if yah never ran into a problem but its only gonna take happening once for yah to wish yah did....

Ah, so, but since nothing is blue in the woods, it'll get you noticed, you see.... grin...

I'm just screwing around here. Not going down that road agin'.... lol....

I hunt taped, black electrical.

i tape the muzzle as soon after shooting or cleaning as practical. and it stays on 'till one or the other happens again.

Always used black electrical tape. Guess I'll have to switch to blue to fit in.

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Scotch 33+

hint.....flowers

You have to make sure the spiral twist of the tape matches the same twist of the BBL, else one screws up the gyroscopic motion of the projectile.

Nice to see I'm not the only one taping, guys make fun of me all the time 'round here for doing it.

FWIW, I use purple tape that my wife gets from work.

I learned to do that the hard way 3 years ago, shot, did not tape again, rain, blood, rusted crown...then cut off two inches to 22!

I prefer brown or green electrical tape depending...now if I had one of those high gloss Aborts I would not worry about taping as the trigger group would rust tight well before any barrel problems would occur..

RatherBHuntin;
I've found no difference in point of impact when using electrical tape on the muzzle.

Spurred on by a Campfire debate I experimented with blue and then green electric tape as well, which are now the standards that I use.

I've actually found that if it's even a bit sunny out, I can do a bore check for obstructions when using blue or green electrical tape, something I couldn't do when using black.

Hopefully that was some use to you. Good luck on your upcoming hunts.

Regards,
Dwayne

We aren't talking about scuba diving here. If you think that bolt lugs a properly fitted bolt face and 2+ inches of a brass gasket called a cartridge case don't do a better job of sealing rain water than an open hole at the other end you probably are stupid enough to have voted for Obama.

Hint, Hint, Try actually looking how different bolts seal up against the chamber. Bolt action rifle actions are designed to divert gas in case of a case rupture or primer piercing, you can't possibly think they don't help a bit to seal out running water do you?............................................DJ

Don't even bother explaining it to that dippshit.

+ 1 Calvin nails it again.

Well, first, there are plenty of guys who hunt without a round in the chamber, no? And to your point about how cartridges seal gas- cartridges expand and seal AFTER powder ignition. They obviously are not sealed to the chamber when just sitting in it unfired.

Next, if you think that stuff makes a water tight seal, I don't even know what to say here because, it doesn't! I'm not trying to be a jerk here but what you are saying simply isn't true. When I take cartridges out of my rifle- from the CHAMBER I mean- after hunting in the rain, they are soaked. The brass is wet, the bullet is wet, everything is wet.

I'll grant that a chambered cartridge and closed bolt are somewhat water RESISTANT but they absolutely, postively are not waterproof.

Maybe we hunt in different rain. Here it's often just this all-day drizzle that gradually soaks everything. Not a thunderstorm that blows through in an hour or whatever.

This is easy to test. Maybe tomorrow I'll test it. Or tonight even.