|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,085
Campfire Regular
|
OP
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,085 |
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
"I used to be a tired hunting guide, now I'm just a re-tired hunting guide"
"No eternal reward will forgive us now, for wasting the dawn" JM
Jared
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 4,216
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 4,216 |
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.
Regards,
Tom
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 13,000
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 13,000 |
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 23,453
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 23,453 |
At one point, nearly all my handguns were stainless, then blued, then stainless again, and now back to blued.
Either works.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 9,526
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 9,526 |
I prefer stainless for weather and holster wear reasons. But, most of my handguns are blued.
I can live with either.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 7,164
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 7,164 |
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,518
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 6,518 |
Stainless...........just because.
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
Doug
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,692
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,692 |
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,579
Campfire Sage
|
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,579 |
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 19,072
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 19,072 |
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.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 7,920
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 7,920 |
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
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 8,521
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 8,521 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 33,690
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 33,690 |
Conduct is the best proof of character.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 46,245
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 46,245 |
Last edited by gunner500; 08/31/14.
Trump Won!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 32,044
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 32,044 |
100% SS if i have the option
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 54,284
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 54,284 |
I prefer stainless. Some guns look better blued though.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 54,284
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 54,284 |
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 24,661
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 24,661 |
At one point, nearly all my handguns were stainless, then blued, then stainless again, and now back to blued.
Either works. I see we suffer from the same affliction.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,733
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,733 |
My revolvers are predominately stainless.
NRA LIFE MEMBER GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS ESPECIALLY THE SNIPERS! "Suppose you were an idiot And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,883
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,883 |
I like stainless, I also like blued stainless on my P226
"The older I get, the better I was"
|
|
|
|
536 members (1beaver_shooter, 1Longbow, 1lessdog, 10gaugemag, 007FJ, 17CalFan, 70 invisible),
2,494
guests, and
1,342
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,191,447
Posts18,470,977
Members73,934
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|