=?iso-8859-1?Q?RE: [DL] Gun + Water =3D ????=

["qusoor@monkeybrains.net" <qusoor@monkeybrains.net>]

Not very.  If they are dropped into the water, you will have to replace the bullets, then likely take the gun itself apart, clean and dry it, then reassemble.  A rusty gun tends to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.  

A heavy rain should be OK if the gun is kept out of the rain.  If the powder in the cartridges gets wet, they won't go off.  

As for mud--I'd take the gun apart and clean it at the end of the day--just to be sure.  Dropping a gun in the mud won't make it ineffective, but it should sure up the likelyhood of a mlafunction.  And for something with delicate moving parts like a Gattling, I'd just make sure I kept it dry.  

John Goodrich
Armchair gunbunny

Original Message:
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From: Tomasz F Misiorek tfm@post.pl
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:31:10 +0200
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: [DL] Gun + Water = ???


Folks,

  How water-resistant were old west firearms? Is heavy rain enough to
  make six-shooter ineffective? How about immersion in water or mud?

-- 
Yours Truly,
  Tomasz F Misiorek                          mailto:tfm@post.pl


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