Everything gets wet constantly. And snow goes EVERYWHERE in guns, which is a reason I gave up on revolvers for the most part in winter and carry autos when skiing and trapping. Snow gets in and melts, freezes and jams them up good. I have much less trouble with autos than with revolvers in this regard.

Anyway, when we get home we lean the guns pronto by a fan blowing heat off the wood stove. My wife is a saint. There's shootin' irons drying by the fire all the time!

Then we oil them, sometimes..., since the pillow has a bad habit of beating the gun patch.

We do our best, but they don't look new after a while. Summer's dust play havoc with bluing and stock polish, and winter's wet does the rest.