SS wins hand down every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Stainless and Birdsongs Black T for the win! I have hunted a lot on Admiralty, Chichagof, Douglas, Haines, and Juneau. Blued guns just don't hold up. Your son went on a short trip one time. It is great that it worked out well for him and you are sold on Bluing. But that is a very very small sample size and period of time to come to the conclusion you have in my opinion.