Shooting in bad weather...yes or no?

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If it is really wet, and the slip is too - I don't put it back in the slip until I know that is dry. Drove home from Beretta World with the gun broken down in the back of the car.  Nowadays, if it looks like rain, I'll take the break down case with me. 

 
It has to be a yes,  you dont get to be good sitting on your ass :)   (unless you have bags of natural raw talent)

I've fished in the wet, raced hovercraft in the wet,   not pleaseant by any means,   but if you want to do it  /  be competitive then needs must ...

Mart

 
CleverSC3 said:
Yes, always dry the gun before going home. My mate chucked his SO5 in a wet slip and left it for a week. EXPENSIVE faux pas..
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ouch!

After a really bad day where it was stair rods all day and cold while our pheasant shooting. old gamekeeper told

me to dry the gun off before going home and when at home let the gun warm up in the warmest room in the house before cleaning it. If you do it straight away and it's still cold and put it in the cabinet it'll just get wet again with condensation.

Seems to work, never had a problem even in some terrible weather.

 
I am continually amazed (and very very thankful) at the horrendous conditions people shoot in.

On behalf of grounds everywhere, we thank you all :)

 
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If it is really wet, and the slip is too - I don't put it back in the slip until I know that is dry. Drove home from Beretta World with the gun broken down in the back of the car.  Nowadays, if it looks like rain, I'll take the break down case with me. 
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I've done that before now. :yes:

 
I don't go shooting the rain. The stands are covered but I just prefer to be able to see the target well also odd things seem to happen to trap targets in the rain never seem to fly right. I shot once when it started to rain and you could see the target like a tracer bullet cutting through the rain very strange.

Hammy about taking your gun in the break down case... that is the norm down here. The only people I have seen with a slip are British. The wording of gun transportation is vaguely that the gun cannot be ready for immediate use so I thought that was why they used the breakdown case but I spoke with one of the club members and he said no that only meant the gun if carried in a slip must be zipped up and have no cartridges in the chambers! Turns out around these parts anyway gun slips are just not the norm

 
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I've never cried off due to bad weather before.  But I don't care for it any more.  The rain makes it miserable.  Anything else is fine - wind, grey and damp, snow, I don't mind.  But I bloody hate the rain!  It's all very well saying get the right clothes, but movement is restricted and I don't like wearing layers - I'm big enough, thanks!  Scores also suffer, and I'm struggling enough right now with the new gun without adding yet another variable.

But the most important thing is enjoyment.  It is, after all, why we do it!  And if it ain't enjoyable, screw it.

Maybe I'm just a pussy southerner, but I don't give a monkey's!  You toughies, crack on!  I'll see you when the rain stops!  :thumbsu:

 
I never put a wet gun in a break down gun case as I do not want moisture anywhere near it.

 
ShootClay Admin said:
If it is really wet, and the slip is too - I don't put it back in the slip until I know that is dry. Drove home from Beretta World with the gun broken down in the back of the car.  Nowadays, if it looks like rain, I'll take the break down case with me. 
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That's the bit I should have highlighted before, even if you dry a gun off first it's no good sticking it back in a case or whatever if that too happens to be wet ! Like Matt I've been known to rest a dried off gun in three pieces on top of a dry jacket or something in the boot.

 
These days I only shoot in decent weather, even though most layouts are covered these days. I shoot bad enough in good weather, never mind in gales and rain! I hate wind and rain,shot in that stuff for years but didn't like it so I stopped! Rather sit in the pub on such days and it's cheaper too!!!

 
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I look forward to my weekend shooting so much that I wont let the weather stop my, well not very often :sarcastic:

 
If you had asked 12 mths ago I would have said shoot in all weather dont be a soft arse, however I have got sick and tired of shooting reg targets in stupid weather just because I have allways shot on Sundays. You can seriously ruin your averages and get home feeling demoralised and a hundred pound worse off, then you end up with radiators full of wet clothes a gun with spoilt wood to re finish not to mention in my case probably a bad back due to the cold and damp. So these days I choose not to shoot comp in bad weather hoeever I might nip for 50 or 75 ut practice localy out for 2 hours home by 2pm.

I now have a stock to refinish as we just had the heaviest hail storm I have ever witnessed which was blown horizontally by a strong wind that came from nowere, we were under cover but we had nowere to hide and and as it was horizontal we were soaked.

weather bad for sun so stuff that.

 
Sat at home now. I am actually scared by the weather outside. Pitch black, massive wind, more water than inside the Titanic. Two trees down in last 5 minutes.

 
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Don't like shooting in the rain, so if its tipping down when I'm due to leave the house I generally don't bother. If I'm at a shoot and it starts raining I'll obviously carry on but I just don't shoot well when I'm soaked through and miserable.

I do use MetCheck a lot and find it pretty accurate, so I always do a postcode search a few days before a shoot to see what that says. If the forecasts poor I'll often look for an alternative ground that's forecast to stay dry.

I do this as a hobby and want it to be as all round enjoyable as possible.

 
CleverSC3 said:
Sat at home now. I am actually scared by the weather outside. Pitch black, massive wind, more water than inside the Titanic. Two trees down in last 5 minutes.
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I sympathise with you as sitting with drinkie, in the sun, watching a shoot off :wink:

 
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