moisture resistant CCw

[acgill07]

If you were buying a ccw that you knew would get soaked over and over, what would you buy? What would be small enough to carry, made of materials that would hold up to being wet often and be easy to break down to clean and dry?

 

[Remllez]

Think hard chrome, stainless and tennifer in that order. These finishes still need to be oiled etc. but do hold up better than blued guns. As far as ease of breakdown goes, once used to the sequence almost any handgun becomes easy.

Kahr, Kel-Tec, Ruger,Smith and Wesson all make concealable handguns in various weather resistant finishes. You need to do some homework on your end but you should be able to find a good fit if you look around.

 

[coolluke01]

A tennifer like finish is more rust resistant than Chrome and stainless. It's also 99.9% saltwater resistant.
Glocks had Tennifer and some say they use something similar to Tennifer now.

If a gun were to get soaked I would want to take it down completely. I would then lean towards a gun that was easiest to take down.
I haven't detail stripped many guns, but the Glock has been the easiest of those I've done by far.

I would go for the G26 to meet all of your requirements. I carry mine in my front pocket when I can't carry it IWB.

 

[Safetychain]

I prefer the stainless. True it will eventually will rust (really it only stains), but in a week worth of small-boat trips in the FL Keys in my bathing suit pocket, my LCP showed no effect on any of the stainless parts last year (I only clean once a week). The non-stainless trigger started to show a little orange dust a couple of times which is why I finally quit carrying on the fishing trips. The older S&W stainless revolver stayed in the console 5 months a year for the last 8 years in a zip-lock that wears through the first trip out with a once a year cleaning (never shot from the boat). Yes, it gets stained up a little but a little polishing cleans it up well. But it was pretty banged up but not rusted at the beginning. I use Corrosion X for cleaning.

 

[gp911]

For me I would go Glock every time. Durable finishes, water drains right out, and they work well even when filthy.

 

[Walking Dead]

I'd probably go with the Sig P250 sub compact. It has a stainless slide and the gun disassembles completely in seconds. Those features may prove valuable in those conditions and if your gonna clean it often.

 

[GDownRange]

Aftermarket Finish

You could send almost any firearm to Robar for their NP3 finish. Then you can simply focus on finding a gun that you carry and shoot well. One day I'll send something to Robar. One day...

http://www.robarguns.com/np3.htm

 

[sidheshooter]

Glock. The above-mentioned 26 comes to mind instantly. Of course, if you don't mind a bit more work, the SP101 Ruger is also easy to both pull apart, and carry. Nowhere as easy to breakdown as a Glock, but way easy by revolver standards, and it's durable as hell.

 

[fatcat4620]

I would go lock. In the well known G21 torture test it was given a salt bath fir a week with no ill effects.

 

[iLikeOldgunsIlikeNewGuns]

Consider S&W third-gens, they're pretty much entirely made of stainless steel, and come apart even easier than a glock. They are very accurate, durable due to being built like tanks, quite rugged, and they are as reliable as glocks as well with all different types of ammo. Someone might bring up the fact that they are heavier than other guns, but a proper belt and holster take weight right out of the carry equation, while weight definitely helps absorb recoil upon firing. I actually prefer heavy guns, especially for CCW, my Desantis belt makes it no issue. Check out the 3913 or 669 if you're looking for something compact.

 

[jfrey]

There are a lot of good guns but for a wet environment, I'm gonna have to go with Glock.

 

[lowercase]

Glock carried in a kydex holster with a nylon gun belt.

Don't know if it gets any more water resistant than that combo.

 

[TennJed]

Ruger SP101

 

[Ludasmith]

Glock.

 

[1911 guy]

Even if the exterior of the handgun is weather/water proof, the internals (firing pin, springs, sear, trigger pins, etc.) are not. Just get a handgun that suits your needs and clean it often and clean it well. Cleaning well would include the internals, not just the bore and exterior wipe-down. This includes magazines. And relegating soaked ammo to range use and putting fresh into the gun for actual use.

 

[W.E.G.]

 

[ny32182]

For a gun that I knew was going to get soaked repeatedly, I would go Glock, 100%. It is as impervious to the elements as possible already, and it is so easy to detail strip that you could easily do so and flush the whole thing out with fresh water every day if you wanted to; it takes five minutes and can be done with only one small flathead screwdriver.

 

[Manny]

Glock, numerous verifiable stories of them surviving months if not longer in salt water just fine with generally no more than spring replacement needed if even that. I'm thinking a Ruger LCR would be a good choice in a revolver as well.

 

[Vonderek]

Another Glock vote here. My sweat is so toxic that my shirts by the end of the day have dried salt stains all over them. The Glock seems impervious to this and the finish on the slide looks the same as the day I bought it.

 

[JERRY]

a lot of good advise here, but make sure you change out your ammo with every "soaking" your gun gets.

a nice gun is practically useless with defective ammo because of moisture.

 

[brickeyee]

The problem is that stainless steels make lousy springs.

And the things that allow some to make better springs reduce the corrosion resistance.

Count on a lot of cleaning, all the way down to piece parts after a soaking.