Sealing pan in inclement weather when hunting

[bob in the woods]

I use a cow's knee along with a light wipe of bear grease on the lip of the pan, and the barrel side of the frizzen. Not much is needed.  Yesterday , while walking over a beaver pond, I crossed a beaver run where the ice had thinned and I fell through. I rolled out of it, but I , my shot pouch
and my smoothbore took a dunking. Once I got on firm ground, I loosened the cow's knee, inverted the barrel to drain it, brought the lock to full cock and fired the gun before the soaking had a chance to take full effect.  Some water had damped the paper cartridge along with a bit of the powder just below it, but the gun did go off.  I used to grease my cartridges but no longer do that, but I imagine that if I had a well oiled patch or a greased paper wad, the charge would have been altogether OK.
PS.   The walk home sucked 

[Daryl]

LOL - same thing happened to Taylor and I with a close friend when going duck hunting. Taylor and I managed to jump over the beaver run quite easily. It was maybe 5' wide. Run and jump, NP.  Leo ran up and jumped and landed right in the middle, right to his arm pits. Taylor and I just roared. It was so funny. His gun was full of water, but drained it just fine.  He had to walk back to the teepee and change. We laughed for quite a while. Leo didn't laugh very much at all.  We jumped back over to help him out, then back again to head to the lake. He showed up later and said he's found a way around it. It was near freezing, but not quite.

[smylee grouch]

Yep, the walk back. Went through at a beaver dam with snow shoes on, quick jerked out and flopped the shoes, still on, onto the snow covered ice which made them quite heavy. Then the walk home carrying gear and two beaver in a burlap bag.

[Daryl]

Sometimes, I reflect on previous actions/reactions & their consequences and wonder how I made it this far.
Speaks quite highly for Guardian Angels.

[bob in the woods]

Sometimes, I reflect on previous actions/reactions & their consequences and wonder how I made it this far.
Speaks quite highly for Guardian Angels.

  My Guardian Angels have had a busy 69 years !   

[Dphariss]

Sometimes, I reflect on previous actions/reactions & their consequences and wonder how I made it this far.
Speaks quite highly for Guardian Angels.

I had a horse go down with me in a beaver pond once upon a time (more to this than I wanna type. On a MT moose hunt (sister shot a cow, but it was somewhat long in the tooth). I don’t know how I came out with a dry FL but I did. Had a couple inches of water in the hunting pouch. I also went back to the Tipi for a wardrobe adjustment. Dad was boning the moose.

[Dphariss]

Sometimes, I reflect on previous actions/reactions & their consequences and wonder how I made it this far.
Speaks quite highly for Guardian Angels.

I had a voice in my head save me back when I mostly ate out of green cans. Took me a long time figure out who it was….

[Mike from OK]

Sometimes, I reflect on previous actions/reactions & their consequences and wonder how I made it this far.
Speaks quite highly for Guardian Angels.

It isn't hard to imagine that my younger days probably lead to a nervous tic, and possibly a 12 step program, for my guardian angel.

Mike

[Daryl]

My wife once warnedme that I was likely taxing my Guardian Angel too much and she or he might quit at some point.
I took her warning to heart and sold my bike & bought a river boat with the proceeds then went for a trip up the Salmon
River with a buddy. When we got back to town, he said, "That was fun. Next time you go 4-wheeling with your boat,
give me a call". There were some shallow, wet-rock areas we kinda bounced through. LOL I've since mellowed out a bit.

[Darkhorse]

One of the last things I do when completing a rifle is "Pretune" the lock. Meaning I get it working and polished up real well and shootable right off. I also mate the top of the pan and bottom of the frizzen before final assembly. I use swiss files, stones, and whatever is needed to mate those two surfaces so when held up to a light very little or no light shines through. Sometimes it takes a while to get it done but I feel it's neccessary. This keeps water out and prime in.
I also grease the pan and use bees wax to build dams to help keep water out of the pan.
I use a rifle slip and hold the rifle bore down anytime it's raining.