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So what do ya'll prefer stainless or blued for your pistols? I can see the benefit in stainless if you're packing a concealed gun for sweat issues. I can also see if you pack open carry in the elements. On my rifles i prefer chrome moly actions, to me they seem slicker and are supposed to be less prone to galling. What do you chose and why on your using guns?

Jared

All my revolvers are stainless. My auto's are either stainless or polymer/blued. I have just migrated to stainless on the revolvers for all weather use.

I like to have one of each blue for show, stainless for go. Modern stainless gun don't have the kind of galling issues that guns back in the 70s and 80s had.

At one point, nearly all my handguns were stainless, then blued, then stainless again, and now back to blued.

Either works.

I prefer stainless for weather and holster wear reasons. But, most of my handguns are blued.

I can live with either.

I have 2 that are stainless, but most are blued. I know in the long run stainless is more durable as far as finish goes, but I just like blued guns.

Stainless...........just because.

Matters not to me.

Naturally, stainless has the nod for corrosion resistance, but I carry blued guns more than stainless. I just like the looks better, and find that keeping rust away isn't that hard. Every morning, before it goes in the holster, I dust it off with a CO2 duster, then wipe it with a silicone cloth, then in the holster. Yeah, after a long while you will get a slight rust patina along the back strap just about no matter what you do, but it just adds character.

PS It was once the standard wisdom of those "in the know" that if you carried a blued revolver you'd be less likely to be reflexively shot by a cop if you needed to use it within sight of one because non-blued revolvers and autos were favored by criminals while cops and those authorized to carry tended to carry blued revolvers. I mostly stopped hearing that old saw repeated, though, as cops shifted away from revolvers in the late 1980s. Not even sure if there was any legitimacy to it back in the day.

I have never considered the corrosion factor because all stainless handguns have some components that will rust. The few stainless that I have, I bought as the constant holster wear is not evident on them as it is on blued handguns. I have both.

I have both in DA revolvers, SA revolvers and semi-autos...as well has hard chrome semis.

When in use I just keep the blue ones sprayed off with silicone and have never had a rust problem. As to bluing wear..at 62 I no longer care..what am I saving them for...

Bob

I just can't make up my mind.

+1.

oops, +2 lol

100% SS if i have the option

I prefer stainless. Some guns look better blued though.

Some guns just don't look right blued IMO. You take a Redhawk. They've been made in blued for years, but the stainless ones came out first and I've never gotten used to a blued one. They're probably pretty rare, come to think of it.

I see we suffer from the same affliction.

My revolvers are predominately stainless.

I like stainless, I also like blued stainless on my P226