johnwilliamson062
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My thoughts:
If you are getting in the water without it you are leaving it under a towel or something. Not being able to call myself a beach bum, but having frequented a few in my life, I am thinking it won't be there ten minutes after you walk away from it.
If you are not getting into the water adjust your clothing.
THe point about more durable finishe s was valid. You are going to subject this gun to very salty air. Even if it does not get wet it is going to get a beating from the salt. Look at what marines on ships go through keeping their guns clean. Industrial hard chrome would be your best finish.
A hi-point. Probably ot easier to conceal than a sig, but if it does rust you just send it back to the factory ad they take care of whatever. I know guys who have used their warranty and none of the horror stories like you hear from Tauruses.
I would look serously at the fanny pack also. Sure that is "off body," but not like a backpack or in the glovebox.
If you are getting in the water without it you are leaving it under a towel or something. Not being able to call myself a beach bum, but having frequented a few in my life, I am thinking it won't be there ten minutes after you walk away from it.
If you are not getting into the water adjust your clothing.
THe point about more durable finishe s was valid. You are going to subject this gun to very salty air. Even if it does not get wet it is going to get a beating from the salt. Look at what marines on ships go through keeping their guns clean. Industrial hard chrome would be your best finish.
A hi-point. Probably ot easier to conceal than a sig, but if it does rust you just send it back to the factory ad they take care of whatever. I know guys who have used their warranty and none of the horror stories like you hear from Tauruses.
I would look serously at the fanny pack also. Sure that is "off body," but not like a backpack or in the glovebox.
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) but I would agree with the hi-point... that way its not that big of a loss... but also klunky... good subject though...
I didn't have to take the XD out of the bag, just poked my trigger finger through the bag and into the trigger guard as I would if I needed it suddenly. I think, and will try this on my next trip to the range, that if I pulled the trigger the muzzle blast and slide cycling would pretty much disintegrate the bag. I'll try both one and two bags to see how it works. I also have a .357 Magnum Bond Arms Derringer that is what people call "stainless steel", but I always preferred to refer to on engineering orders as "CRES" "corrosion resistant steel". All CRES steels are, by nature, alloys of steel and a combination of chromium, nickle, molybdenum, carbon and even titanium; the combinations are bewildering. On a project to build a new kind of furnace for uranium salts we tried using 17-4PH, a precipitation hardened high tensile strength and equally high corrosion resistance to make the CRES stirring paddle, and molten uranium salts ate it away in minutes. This is the CRES that is used to make the bottles that hold the hydrogen isotope tritium in hydrogen bombs, and tritium gas is also a world class corrosive. I ended up using Tantalum for the paddles, and since it was a weldment, became our groups expert on e-beam welding that weird metal. If you ever need to weld it, and want to prevent martinsitic grain growth, e-beam weld in a pure argon atmosphere. Being a Government project I had never had to consider the cost of the material, and by the time we made one that passed the test I had 13 failed prototypes in my office at LLNL. My boss came by one day and reminded me to lock my office door, something I had never done, When I asked why he told me I had more than a million dollars of Tantalum stacked in the corner. I say all of this because there is no material known as stainless steel that will not, under the right circumstances, corrode to uselessness. The pistol that I have seen take on extreme salt water immersion combined with combined physical abuse is the Glock. I remember an article that was in Shooting Times about a test the SAS did back around 1980 where they fired around 10K through six or eight Glock 17s, disassembled half, putting them in small mesh bags and putting those bags in a larger mesh bag with the assembled pistols and hung the bag down the legs of a oil drilling platform in the North Atlantic and left them there for a long time; banging against the platform leg and subjected to the near freezing sea water. When they retrieved the bag they reassembled the four, and loaded the magazine of them all. The did no cleaning, no oiling, water was removed from the barrels by blowing through the breech with lung power. All of the Glocks functioned without failure, including a torture test of running pre-loaded magazines through the pistols until all of the water evaporated as steam. They put as much abuse into those Glocks as humanly possible with no failure except for two DNF that was traced to the ammunition, as it did not fire with re-strikes from the same pistol or any other pistol. There were some spots of rust on the slide around the rear sight, but this wiped off with routine cleaning. I am unreasonably fond of my Glock 20, and if I had to take a handgun into a very terrible environment, where it was boiling in the day, freezing at night, with talcum like dust, and very little opportunity to clean the weapon, my Glock 20 would be one of the pistols I would carry. 
