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« on: March 09, 2004, 03:39:12 AM »
My soon-to-be next gun(as soon as the required Virginia 30 days passes) will be a SBH in 4 5/8.  I admit I prefer the looks of the Blued better, but have always gone stainless due to rumored less maint.
This will be my daily carry (unless city bound, then its my glock 30)
I have a Ruger SRH and admit that it cleans up real well...
Some of you ladies and gents with more experience lend me a hand?
Blued or stainless?
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2004, 04:07:53 AM »
You have to go with what makes you happy. I like both, it depends on what flavor I want at the time. I do not find either easier to maintain than the other. I clean both guns equally. A quality holster is what is needed to keep the gun looking good. (Holster wear.)  :grin:
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2004, 06:42:32 AM »
I personally prefer stainless over blued when it comes to revolvers. If you're basically just carrying it around, and shooting it occasionaly, then one is as good as the other. I carry mine in the truck always here in Pulaski county VA, and shoot every day if possible. Under my circumstances, stainless is really hard to beat.

Although I try to baby all my guns, my revolvers(I guess because they're so compact compared to a rifle) seem to get shuffled, and bumped around quite a bit. Also, because I carry one of them constantly, they tend to get carried in while it's raining every time it rains. Add the daily dusting from the rides on dirt roads, and just the ever present dust that seems to accumulate in a pick-up when you live in the country, and it'll start to age a blued revolver fairly quick no matter how well you maintain it. Like Redhawk, I clean mine very regularly, but the stainless definately takes less care than a blued version.

The scratches that you'll inevitably end up putting on a revolver(if you use it), will look awful on a blued gun, but are hardly noticable on stainless. Those same scratches will end up trying to rust on bluing, but on stainless it's not a problem.

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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2004, 11:54:08 AM »
have both but prefer the looks of a blued gun.
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2004, 02:14:08 PM »
Hi,
   I like the looks of blued guns much more than the stainless ones.  I've seen more stainless guns with cylinder latch holes all buggered up than carbon steel guns.  I clean my guns after firing them and after a camping trip or rain storm.  I have a .41 mag "blued" Ruger Blackhawk that has spent 20 years with me from Wyoming to Maine.  It's had over 5,000 rounds of magnum ammo through it.  The only finish scars are a ding in the grip frame (a buddy rested it on the pickup bed), and the cylinder ring that all Rugers get.  I'm buying a blued .45 Colt Ruger Blackhawk this week as my "magnum" days are over.  I like big holes but have grown tired of recoil.  If you like the looks of a black gun over the shiney metal, get it.  My friends SBH looks like a stainless gun but the blue is just all gone 30+ years in a hunter holster and a zillion hunting trips from Alaska to Tenn. and never cleaning took a toll.  Just my $.02......Mike
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2004, 02:53:45 PM »
If it were me, I would go with the stainless, then get it Teflon finished.  Be sure that the outfit refinishing it parkerizes it first.  It adds $100 or so to the price, but you end up with a gun which isn't all shiney and can shrug off the wet.  We get 140" + of rain per year here, and my old Model 88 Winchester with the 10 year old Black-T finish hangs in there year after year.

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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2004, 02:39:56 AM »
Well, I went Blued...I walked out of the Va gunshow with a blued SBH 4 5/8 44...I love it...this is my first single action...and am amazed of the pointability of it...
Sweetness...
Next month I'll order a holster on it with my spending cash...(from my wife)...
Thanks for the feed back...
though to sum it up...the solution is to buy them both!
someday...
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2004, 07:03:13 AM »
I live in rainy British Columbia, Canada and have switched to S/S handguns and rifles from blued guns. My S/S guns are so easy to take care of compared to my blued ones.
2 -> S/S Ruger Bisley Vaquero's 45 Colt
1 -> S/S 700 Rem. 300 Rem. Ultra Mag
1 -> S/S Marlin 1895GS 45-70
1 -> S/S T/C Contender carbine with 45-70 22", 308Bellm 21" and 22LR 16.5" barrels
Don't think that I'll ever go back to blued guns.
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« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2004, 07:17:04 AM »
Unless it's a cowboy gun, I just love too see a revolver in stainless.  Don't matter to me if it's a Ruger 101, an S&W (any model), a Taurus or any other.

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« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2004, 07:59:02 AM »
Even my Marlin 1894CB 45 Colt that I use as my Cowboy rifle I would switch to S/S if they would make it. This rifle would also become my wifes bush/camp gun.
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« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2004, 11:44:32 AM »
Cam,

Look at my previous post.  Get that Marlin a black teflon finish.  I have that on both my Winchester 88 and my Ruger Blackhawk, and they are impervious to the weather.  We probably get every bit as much rain as you, and we have the salt water to contend with.  Just have to make sure the bore is oiled or greased.  Check out this website: http://www.gunblue.homestead.com/  If I had a stainless steel firearm I would still get this done to kill the shine.

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« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2004, 12:06:50 PM »
If you are going to have it out in the rain all the time or shoot black powder in it, I would say get a SS. Otherwise, it is a toss up.

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