[H Romberg]

Buy Smith & Wesson pistols if you want corrosion resistance. I'm getting ready to move soon, and while packing up, I noticed I was MISSING A FIREARM! Now this ain't never happened to me before, and I REALLY don't like the feeling. I spent the next couple of days looking madly for my 6904 9mm until my brain clicked and I remembered having dropped something heavy in my boat slip while boarding a month or so ago. I couldn’t figure out what it was at the time, so I eventually “wrote it off”. :uhoh:

Looks like I tossed the damn thing on my bed with all the boat stuff after cleaning it, and picked it up by accident when I loaded the car. Needless to say, that’s the LAST time a firearm will find its way anywhere but my safe, my holster, or my range box. :banghead:

Anyway, after a MONTH at the bottom of the Chesapeake, :what: the damned thing is still in working order! Some of the black anodizing is gone on the slide, leaving bare metal, but there was ZERO RUST. Down in the galley, I removed the mud, rinsed, washed, scrubbed and greased with corrosion block foaming grease, and it looks almost like it did before. A trip through the dishwasher, and a re-greasing, and it should be ready to shoot again. I don’t know what was worse, having an AWOL firearm or having a destroyed firearm. Boy am I happy to see its neither. :D

[Darrin]

Man, it's a good thing that S&W didn't go off while under water killing innocent fish! :scrutiny:

Glad you got your gun back. Perhaps a holster with a thumb break is needed when around water? :D

[H Romberg]

Wouldn't have happened if it'd been holstered. I didn't even know I had it with me. At the very least, it NEVER gets tossed on the bed again.

[Navy joe]

Sounds great, but I'd say go ahead and detail strip with an eye towards replacing all springs. They are probably going to have some corrosion issues.

[willyjixx]

funny:


i have a 915 S&W. when i lived in Ft stewart GA id leave it in my walllocker when i would go to the field for a couple of weeks id come back an there would be surface corrosion on the slide. never the alloy frame just the slide. do you have different coating maybe?

[H Romberg]

Mine's black anodized. It actually would rust a bit where the coating was worn if I got sweat on it and left it out. I suspect the lack of corrosion had to do with being protected from oxygen by the soft mud. That and the good coating of gun oil it had from its cleaning when it went in. Either way, I'm happy not to have lost a gun.

Navy Joe, I agree the springs need to be looked at. I was shocked they were still there, much less looking clean and smooth. Thank goodness for foaming grease/oil to displace other goo once I exposed it to air.