[friscolatchi]

Hello to all
While looking for crayfish with my 6 year old son yesterday, my revolver (M&P 340) fell out of the holster while flipping rocks and into the drink. I immediately removed the cartridges and dried the gun. When we got home, I blew it out with compressed air, sprayed the innerds with rem oil and blew it out again. I was able to remove the cylinder and yoke but not the plate covering the trigger mechanism (need special tool??). Is there anything else that I should do? like remove the plate? take it to a smith?

I bought this model for personal protection, hiking and backpacking and I was anticipating a problem like this may happen. I had a new blackhawk OWB that appears to have good retention, but you have to cant the gun forward in order to remove it. Maybe the gun wasn't in it properly...

Any comments would be appreciated. Regards, Frisco

[Cannonball888]

At least you didn't drop it in saltwater. I think you did well to clean it. The only thing I would have done differently is after your initial blow out I would have sprayed WD40 to displace any remaining water, blew that out, then Remoil, then blow that out.

[hardluk1]

Use a penatrating oil like kroil or gm topend lube or to a lesser degree blaster and the green label marine spray from crc products. All will stop any rust but the kroil also works well as a lube to. Set the gun where ever you would put wet boots to finish drying out and draining excess penitrant.

[Maelstrom]

Any reason why you can't dunk it?

Get a gallon of WD 40 from Home Depot or Lowes. It's fairly cheap, and you're guaranteed to get all the water out.

[friscolatchi]

Thanks to you all for the advice. I took it out and put some hundred rounds through it yesterday. I'm going to repeat the process when I clean it today.
Frisco.