Rain and Air Rifles

I use my impact and boss rain or shine, give them a wipe with ballistol before and after.

Sounds like it should be called, the city that never stop rainy. I'm sure there are sunny days. Rain is just water. Like all water, it will make your guns rusted. So make sure to clean all water off it and spray with some lubes to prevent rust..the o rings are inside the gun. Unless you are dipping your gun into the puddles, water shouldn't go inside where the o rings are.

Depends on the gun also, high end pcps tend to use anodized aluminum and stainless components for the most part other than springs and the barrel.

Jim81 If it was me I'd save those expensive guns for nicer weather & get a puncher breaker in 22 or 25 cal with a syn. stock . They shoot hot & have the power adj. knob on them. I use my 22 cal for nutria & just love it . Why take a chance ? we do get a lot of rain . I'm inland from the coast about 90 miles .

Jim81 My 22cal at low on the dial justs lobs them in with the jsb's 18s .I wouldn't be afraid to use it . What distance are you shooting ? Not sure if they are stainless maybe someone that has one will chime in . But you can replace the shroud from P.A. pretty cheap but your still going to wipe it down & oil it . Mine is the completely black one . I have a contractor here right know but will test it out today to see what happens if I get a chance. Is it heavy gal. or the light weight tin ? darell

We got caught in a rain storm at the Crosman field target shoot one year. I poured water out of the stock on my HW 100 every time it was my turn and my buddy was using my Daystate Panther. The HW did not get affected at all but the Daystate electronics board showed no numbers. We went back to the room and took the gun stocks off and let them dry good and oiled them down. The electronics dried out and worked well after that. I shot a match in KY one year with a USFT rifle and got caught in a bad storm. The gun performed a lot better than me and was fine afterward. PCP rifles are pretty hardy but they all will leak eventually, rain or not.

I've had my Impact dripping wet several times. The only corrosion (rust) on it is on the screw heads.

Simple solution, just use the FX .

I baby my rifles. If it's going to rain when I'm out pesting or hunting, I bring the Benji NP2 and use it. When I return home I remove the stock and dry everything with a towel and blow dryer before wiping it down with Ballistol.

If you are going to be shooting in damp conditions, I would remove the wood stock and seal the inside. Too much moisture and the wood can swell and then crack when drying.





edit: I also like the bikini scope caps for shooting in the rain because they keep the scope lens dry. I remove the plastic lens from them and replace with glass, much clearer.

I'll have to 2nd the advise about scoring a Kral Puncher Breaker! 
I loved mine so much that I grabbed a second one. They rock! 

I have both styles of the synthetic stocked version: 
The PB silent-marine [silver] and the PB silent [black]
Honestly, w/ the silver, I think the only thing different is the finish. 
It's almost a fine bead blasted / anodized appearance. 

Both of mine are new [the Mk2 versions]
The only odd difference that I noticed.. 
The shroud on the black version is a bit longer than the silver one. 
Huh.. Interesting..
I remove the shrouds though. The barrel ends are threaded 1/2-20 
so a suppressor threads right onto them. 
I let the bbl 'float' but add rubber grommets in the bbl bands.. 
That way, the bbls still have 360* support, and it works great!



Sam -

[Edit] Here's a closer shot of the finish on the Marine / Silver:
[You'll see what I mean w/ the grommets & suppressor too]

Where are you all applying the Ballistol? To the entire exterior of the gun or only on the metal parts?