Taping the end of your barrel while hunting

[Bofire]

  I do not think it will hurt any thing, but I also think the chance of drops of water actually going down your muzzle is non-existant. I dont and wont do it.
 Carry your gun muzzle down in the rain.
Carl

[WapitiFreak]

i got some finger cots from the 1st aid kit at work those work great ( they look like little tiny condoms)

[Bob33]

Electrical tape.  Works great.  Absolutely no reason not to use someone on the muzzle.

[Rob]

Anything in a pinch...

I found myself in pretty nasty weather in the Blues last elk season (no one told me there are no elk in the blues or I would not have been there...)

Nasty rain, wind and snow was making me nervous to have the barrel exposed but I had no tape.  I broke out the first aid kit and used band-aids.

[Ingwe]

I always use tape. If you fall down you won't plug the barrel with dirt or twigs.

[high country]

I am a taper. I also keep a bit on the barrel to replace the muzzle cover or help hold my tag on the horns.

[MadHatter]

i got some finger cots from the 1st aid kit at work those work great ( they look like little tiny condoms)

 

Use these and some tape if its raining hard and I want a good seal on it...

[JohnVH]

Yep. Electrical tape


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[elkontherun]

My dad started taping my barrel when I first started hunting 15 years ago and I still do it today.  It would really suck to be miles from the truck and fall down and plug your barrel and not be able to shoot that once in a lifetime trophy.  Then again I am probally the only one who falls down while hunting.  I have killed a lot more animals with tape on my barrel than without.

[high country]

I have measured groups fired with and without electrical tape on the muzzle. It takes a bench gun and a hell of a shot to see any difference.

[zackmioli]

i always tape my barrel as well.

[hunterofelk]

After cleaning the barrel,and firing three sight in shots, I but electrical tape, duct tape or scotch tape over the muzzle.  Use to get teased by my hunting pards, but it always seemed common sense to me.

[bobcat]

I have only done it when hunting during a heavy snow. Never felt I needed it otherwise. In over 30 years of hunting I have never stuck my barrel in the dirt. Not saying it's not a good precaution to take, I just don't do it.

[martin1]

i always tape my barrels with electrical tape saved me along walk back the the truck a couple times 

[high country]

Tape one rifle and carry it in the field for a week......do the same uncovered. Now have a peek in the bore. It's amazing how much crap ends up in a bore. If you take a spill, the odds of plugging the bore are low, the odds of putting a ding on the crown are much higher.....and that can hurt. There is enough reasons for me to do it and none not to.....except perhaps that bling factor, and my go to rifle looks well worn already....a little tape won't keep me from taking it on a date.