bnhcomputing,

Hunting in the rain with a ML, is not an easy task. There are ML's, like the Knight Disc Extreme, that claim they kepp the moisture out but once the charge gets wet, nothing will happen. This happened to a friend of mine once. He was hunting out of a tree stand with an inline, when it started to rain. He already had the gun loaded, with black powder and using a 209 primer. When a doe walked under his tree stand, he took aim, poof, the primer went off and that was it. So, he loaded another primer, poof, and no ka boom, only the primer went off again. Even though no water went down the barrell, the black powder absorbed the moisture and it would not go off. BP does absorb moisture right out of the air.

I use one of those Ameristep blinds and when it rains, it helps to keep the rain off me and my equipment, except when setting up of leaving. It helps but only to a certain amount with the ML.

MY suggestion is try to not hunt during the rain, wait untill it stops, After loading the gun, seating the bullet, and adding the primer, run some electrical tape over the barrel and around the primer, hope for the best. Plus deer tnd to move more after a rain than during it.


Tom