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

Lol. This again.

I hunt in the rain all the time and have never taped. It ain't hardly necessary. Do keep in mind, if you carry empty chamber and muzzle-down the tape can actually trap water in the barrel.

For those who DO use their rifle as a prybar or chisel <grin> I can see the utility in taping to keep debris out. Dumbphuck that I am on this subject, I still manage to hunt hard in the rain and bluster without getting debris in my barrels but that's probably just dumb luck.

i've seen a few barrels that were shortened because of shooting them with snow or mud in the muzzle.

i use electrical tape on all rifles year 'round. always.

I got some of those little black "rubbers" for barrels and tried them. They are too fragile to be of any use; they tear easily, they won't stand up to any abuse/friction/rubbing at all and if the barrel isn't big enough the rubber falls off...
Story of my life...

Came out of an arroyo,crawling,for a crack at a hog pronghorn one time,after a rainy/snowy day....pushed the 270 ahead of me and in classic, putzy fashion, managed to slip a bit and jammed the muzzle in the mud.....no tape of course so I slid back down outa sight.....

A pal and I managed to whittles a sagebrush branch down to size and scoop the crud out of the end of the barrel.We made sure it was clean....

I bellied back out, got a solid prone rest over a clump of sage,and killed the buck at about 275 yards....ever since then I always roll a couple of turns of electric tape around the barrel.Don't always use it but it stays all season.

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.

This thread ain't never not funny!
<grin>

I use maxi-pads. They absorb well, and nobody ever laughs their butt off or gives me a ration of sh1t about it.

I run only Blue tape, avaiable at www.dontbestupid.com and find that my muzzle velocity gains are great. I gained over 250 FPS with my 30-06 so now I can shoot a 180 grn bullet at 3500 FPS with only the slighest pressure signs.

Do you prefer the ones with wings or no wings?

I'm not sure you can kill anything in the rain if you use a color other than blue.

It would be a shame for this thread to get lost....another Jeff_O classic....

Tape.

Trojan Magnum..... Pop taught me never to leave home without one....

Why tape your barrel?

To keep "stuff" out of the bore?

JEff

Silence is golden but duct tape is silver.

I just saw that on a bumper sticker today.

I cut the fingers off of surgical gloves to cover end of the barrel.

Bump you open muzzle across the carpet(home or truck) and get a light and look at the grains of sand stuck inside the barrel muzzle. If it's a rifle, i tape it.

Smelly or clean is the question-?