Re: vacuum sealing a pistol

On Feb 10, 6:07 am, ridcully <rjcoon...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# so I want to keep a pistol up at a friends cabin year around, so it
# will be there when i want it without having to worry about packing it
# back and forth. It will face some pretty severe weather changes
# throughout the year, being in central idaho. The temp can reach the
# 90's in the summer with very little humindity, and as low as -30's in
# the winter with tons of snow. My friend has a food vacuum packer, and
# i got to thinking that this might be a solution for the storage
# problems. If I vacuum sealed the pistol and some ammo, would this help
# with the affects of the drastic weather conditions? and would a
# tactical tupperware pistol fare better than an all steel one?
#

Hi Ridcully,

Vacuum sealing is a little over the top, but removing most of the
oxygen will slow oxidation (rust).

There will be those who will dis-agree with me.

As long as you keep your gun fairly clean overall and clean and lube
the gun well before putting it away over for longer periods of
storage, you won't have any trouble. Vacuum sealing in addition to
this is a little anal, but it will help. Especially for keeping
moisture away.

OTOH, a .50 cal metal ammo can with seals and some desicant will
achieve the same thing.

Make certain no gun oil get sucked into the vacuum packer. That stuff
isn't good for you.

Don't sweat the ammo, it will be fine in its box. You suggest 120
degree spread in temp. Technically this will degrade the powder. But
frankly, ammo has a very long shelf life and you are not going to
notice degradation for at least 10yrs and more like 50yrs. Vacuum
sealing will not help the ammo and might help speed degradation
through presure imbalance.

As far as steel vs. plastic guns. Either gun requires care. Isn't
any tougher to keep a steel gun in good shape than a plastic one.
Just a little different. Presuming the plastic gun is good at -30, no
reason not to have one if you like that kind of thing.


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