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Soccerdad1995 wrote:It depends on the gun.

If it's a Glock, no problem. The gun's incredible reliability will rub off on the bullets, so you should be fine leaving a full Glock submerged in acid for 10 or 20 years.

If it's a 1911, then a single raindrop will render the gun completely inoperative until you pay a highly trained gunsmith a minimum of $5,000 to fix it. And there are only 3 gunsmiths in the world who are capable of doing the work.

At least that's what I've gathered from reading various gun blogs and forums.

9mm 1911's are bad enough but what about the dreaded 380!

I've never washed or dried my reload but I know I could forget it one day. I make it a habit it keep my reload on me until I take my gun off and then my reload. I've just made it a habit. I can tell you I've used shot gun shells numerous times that I dropped in the water while hunting and picked back up and used them that same or a later hunt. But Jusme is right if the bullets weren't sealed then sweat and humidity and all that jazz would be a major issue.

My thoughts too. I did see a glock on YouTube tho burried for a year and it was rusty they loaded a mag and it fired I everytime. But that's not constant submersion in water

I took the wife and hound dog out this afternoon for nice boat ride and while I was boating around I had the thought, " I wonder how what happens when bullets get wet". So what if you fall into the lake and you go under and you, your gun, gear everything gets soaked then you had to use your gun after you came out of the water because a hoard of angry badgers were swimming towards you with machetes. My thought is the gun should still work fine after all the water tests I've seen on YouTube with the quick dunks and even shooting under water. But what if you drop your gun and it's submerged for a day then you find it and the badgers return with chainsaws. They bullets will most likely work won't they? Or do you think water will have gotten in and ruined the powder.