Those Of You Who Live In The PNW

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silicosys4 said:
Y'all have humidity. Nw WA doesn't. I'm 40 years old and the first time I experienced real humidity was this summer in the south.
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Yep.
If you Google it, you’ll see that Idaho is actually in the Pacific Northwest. Yet the annual average humidity in Boise is only about 50%, and it’s even lower than that over here on the eastern side of the state.
I got a big surprise when I spent a winter in Memphis, Tennessee when I was about 20 years old. I thought it couldn’t get all that cold there, and least not for an Idaho born and raised young tough. Yeah! I thought I was going to freeze to death before that winter was over, and the fact is, it never did get much below about 30 degrees F. Humidity is a killer, and there just ain’t that much of it in this part of the “PNW.” ;)
 
silicosys4 said:
I'm as pnw as it gets, home base is nw washington, 3 hours west of Seattle, 1 mile from saltwater. I've spent the last 3 weeks driving around the country, and I've visited probably 25 states in that time.

First off, everything east of the rockies is harder on guns than Washington. Y'all have humidity. Nw WA doesn't. I'm 40 years old and the first time I experienced real humidity was this summer in the south.

Y'all think the nw has rain? I've been caught in a few downpours the last few weeks that make anything the nw has look like mist. It doesn't rain in the nw like it rains everywhere else. It drizzles, but we don't get the downpours everywhere else does. I'm not talking just about the south, I got caught in rain in Wyoming that was barely drivable with the wipers on high. The difference is, when it rains where I'm from its always cold, below 65. The humid hot rain is what will rust up guns badly.

If you can keep a gun rust free in say, Virginia or the Carolinas, you can keep a gun rust free in the nw.

Personally, I RIG my guns yearly or so and the only time I've ever had rust issues was when I lived in an RV and couldn't keep a constant temperature, allowing condensation to form...and even then I only had freckles here and there that wiped off without a trace....and that was after an entire winter.

I have seen badly rusted guns, but those were either boat guns used to kill seals that got into fishing nets and were kept on saltwater boats 24/7, or guns kept in barns or outside shops with no heat and no care whatsoever for extended periods of time.
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Salty East coast air will rust out anything
 
Mark_Mark said:
How’s your life back down south? this time of the year was my favorite there. Well the rain has been delayed here in the PNW, smoke calming down. Last cruise boats have left.
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I’m loving it buddy. I’m up in the mountains next to the state high point so we’re already getting wonderful fall temperatures and blue skys. Every other tree has a squirrel in it, counted up to 18 turkeys at once down by my pond, lots of deer, a lot of wild fruit and hickory nuts. I’ve been hunting, fishing or shooting nearly every day of the week. Just made my first set of catfish jugs to try and stack them up like cordwood in my freezer. I’m signed up for a 2 day trapping workshop the state is putting on in November. To top it off I’m planning a trip to the Ga coast to camp out of my van and fish until I “feel like “ coming back. So yes my recommendation to everyone is to sell your house in Washington and go somewhere your money goes much farther.:D:cool:
 
Mark_Mark said:
Salty East coast air will rust out anything.
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Spray from wave action, splashing, etc. rises into the air, water in the droplets evaporates, leaving tiny suspended microscopic salt particles to drift even further inland than just the water drops could.

Hence the "salt air."

In New York City and surroundings you could hardly find any rust free iron. Frankly, coming out here to Colorado I kinda got a little lazy about rust prevention on guns and tools.

The Ordnance Department, according to Hatcher, found that for the most part, corrosion with corrosive ammunition only occurred when the humidity got above about 50%. This explained the really big mystery as to why test guns fired with corrosive primers would go for weeks without rusting, then "bang," all of a sudden everything got corroded all at once.

Kinda screwed up their testing for non-corrosiveness of primer compositions until somebody noticed that.

Terry, 230RN

P.S. See Hatcher's Notebook in "Gun Corrosion and Ammunition Developments,"
 
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.308 Norma said:
Yep.
If you Google it, you’ll see that Idaho is actually in the Pacific Northwest. Yet the annual average humidity in Boise is only about 50%, and it’s even lower than that over here on the eastern side of the state.
I got a big surprise when I spent a winter in Memphis, Tennessee when I was about 20 years old. I thought it couldn’t get all that cold there, and least not for an Idaho born and raised young tough. Yeah! I thought I was going to freeze to death before that winter was over, and the fact is, it never did get much below about 30 degrees F. Humidity is a killer, and there just ain’t that much of it in this part of the “PNW.” ;)
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Ya, that sagebrush desert runs from about Bishop, Ca up through Western Nevada, Eastern Oregon into Washington/Idaho. It gets pretty dry all along the cascades rain shadow. :)

Down here it is a creosote bush and Joshua Tree desert. It gets miserably dry here. :(

Stay safe.
 
Barbaroja said:
I’m loving it buddy. I’m up in the mountains next to the state high point so we’re already getting wonderful fall temperatures and blue skys. Every other tree has a squirrel in it, counted up to 18 turkeys at once down by my pond, lots of deer, a lot of wild fruit and hickory nuts. I’ve been hunting, fishing or shooting nearly every day of the week. Just made my first set of catfish jugs to try and stack them up like cordwood in my freezer. I’m signed up for a 2 day trapping workshop the state is putting on in November. To top it off I’m planning a trip to the Ga coast to camp out of my van and fish until I “feel like “ coming back. So yes my recommendation to everyone is to sell your house in Washington and go somewhere your money goes much farther.:D:cool:
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You sold at a good time! interest rate is so high, a house next door sold for 1.9 million in 4 days. Fast forward 1 month, a similar house 2 doors down with a killer view is struggling to sell at 1.7 million.

btw, you can catch catfish in the Winter time! save some for every else! lol

what the heck is a hickory nut?

Good stuff on the move down south! How old are you man? just want to make sure I leave here in time
 
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Yes I have heard the same stories, to be honest I know we got lucky, but I’ll take it.

As for the catfish I want to pile some fish up now so I can focus on hunting when big game seasons open up as well as a new trapping endeavor.

A hickory nut is the nut of a hickory tree.:rofl:
They are hard to crack but taste like a mix between pecans and walnuts. Furthermore the squirrels go crazy for them, and I’m crazy for squirrel and wild foods of all types. In Washington I grew and raised a majority of my own food, here I plan to hunt and forage much more of it to supplement my farming. Still gotta get some cows so I don’t have to mow.

I’ll be 34 in a couple weeks, but unlike yourself the universe decided that my wife and I were (unfortunately) not to have any children so that leaves a lot more wiggle room when it’s just the two of us.
 
I don't miss the Oregon mist at all. In Vegas we'd get what I believe was called verga, where you could see rain falling in the distance, but it would evaporate about halfway down. 4" average rainfall, but we'd get that in two or three bursts. Here our rainy season is the summer - the old what goes up must come down syndrome. And it seems like it usually starts right after I start the charcoal for the grill......

I keep my handguns in a safe in the house, so no worries there. The long guns are in a safe in the garage, with a golden rod and two rechargeable dehumidifiers. I have to recharge the dehumidifiers every couple of weeks during the summer, even with a tight seal on the door. The wipe down with WD Specialist is an easy extra layer of protection. It should be more than adequate for guns carried in the elements.
 
Barbaroja said:
Yes I have heard the same stories, to be honest I know we got lucky, but I’ll take it.

As for the catfish I want to pile some fish up now so I can focus on hunting when big game seasons open up as well as a new trapping endeavor.

A hickory nut is the nut of a hickory tree.:rofl:
They are hard to crack but taste like a mix between pecans and walnuts. Furthermore the squirrels go crazy for them, and I’m crazy for squirrel and wild foods of all types. In Washington I grew and raised a majority of my own food, here I plan to hunt and forage much more of it to supplement my farming. Still gotta get some cows so I don’t have to mow.

I’ll be 34 in a couple weeks, but unlike yourself the universe decided that my wife and I were (unfortunately) not to have any children so that leaves a lot more wiggle room when it’s just the two of us.
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good luck to you two man, 34 is young, and your living your dreams were you want to be!

keep your guns grease, wash your rod & reel, enjoy life!
 
Anyone use Birchwood Casey BARRICADE?
Sprayed it on some cylinders , put in my shower for a month. There was some rest but it was small manageable rust.
 
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