I have shot in the rain, but never pouring rain. I have hunted in pouring rain but never got a shot. Sat in a blind all day and watched nothing. Now snow... I've shot and hunted, in near blizzard conditions. I laid the smack on a big doe one hunting season on my property with a muzzle loader. It was snowing so hard it was like a wonderland out there. She came in about thirty yards. I held center on her kill zone, fired and for some reason shot high, but it broke her down. And she dropped in her tracks.