There is no substitute for a well placed shot vs. throwing lead at them.
Hear! Hear!
I shot two rifles in the rain today, not because I wanted to get out in the rain, but because I wanted to see if shooting through a heavy downpour changed the strike of the bullet at 200 yards!.... It did not.
We were getting the tail end of Hurricane Jean, here in Md. this week. Both the 7mmWSM and the 7mmRemMag performed just as they had last week on a dry, still day.
Doing things like shooting targets in a hard rain sounds crazy to some, but shooting under different conditions, just for practice has always paid off. If the payoff is not in game, it is in the confidence of knowing that what I am carrying will work.