J E,
Good advice. I agree.
I often find it much tougher to baby and provide tender loving care for my rifles when hunting in Alaska, compared to the other states. It's a combination of some potentially poorer weather conditions, saltwater environment, and less comfortable and less controlled housing. Often camping is small unheated tents, and when the weather is wet and there's no heated tent or cabin, the rifles and gear stay damp until the weather clears or the hunt is over.
Stainless is the way I go, along with synthetic stocks. If a fella didn't like the stainless look, he could always Cerakote the stainless barreled action any color desired. I've considered the Cerakote but haven't had it done to one of my rifles as of yet. The stainless seems to tide me over during the hunts, until I can get back to a controlled environment and conduct the after-the-hunt cleaning.
All of my chrome moly barreled actions that I've hunted with up here for any period of time have some visible rust on them. I've sold most of them and converted to stainless. I don't mind some visible rust. I accepted it as a fact of life up here with chrome moly steel. But I don't like to have my bores corrode, so I migrated to stainless long ago.