stainless made or blued pistol prefence .

[lvthmtaurus]

pros, cons. thanks to all .

[stallard]

Stainless guns have some advantages in rust resistance, can be easier to clean without scratching and if you get a scratch you can just polish it out. I prefer it on my "working" guns but for anything else I love the look of a blued gun, with the highly polished blue being my favorite.

[Lance0812]

I like shiny guns.

[Montkun]

I prefer stainless, although i only have one. My other two handguns are blued, as are all of my long guns.

[TexasDeputy]

pros, cons. thanks to all .

Being on the Gulf coast, with corrosive salt air and perspiration, stainless is a must. Before the widespread availability of stainless pistols, our academy firearms instructor told us, "You either live with gun oil or you live with rust!"

SOME (NOT all) stainless alloys are subject to galling if not properly lubed. In my stainless pistols I have tried several lubes and ALL worked satisfactorily, but my personal favorite to lube a CLEAN stainless pistol is the Teflon lube that I get at Lowes for about $5. It comes in 2 forms, a plastic squeeze bottle with a liquid white DuPont Teflon suspension in a volatile carrier that evaporates and leave a slick, dry Teflon film on the metal, and a sprayable DuPont Teflon in with a thin lubricant waxy base.

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Both of these have worked very well on my stainless pistols, and are inexpensive (about $5 each). They also work fine on blued pistols as well. My blued PT 640 has the liquid Teflon - dry film treatment and is slick and smooth. The dry Teflon film does not attract and hold grit and dirt as traditional oils are prone to do.

[MisterNoisy]

I dig the look of stainless, but have always ended up with blued or black. To be honest, my favorite finish is whatever baked-on finish CZ uses on the current 75B and it's stablemates.

[SGMShadow]

Just like the blued look.

[JohnFritz]

Most of my guns are stainless. But both stainless and blued have their strengths and weaknesses. SS is a personal preference of mine. I own a few CZ's and agree with Mr. N., that thick finish on the CZ's is pretty nice. It has a depth to it, one of the more tactile finishes.

[Tape]

blue, do not care for stainless but it's great for edc

[Smokewagon]

I like 'em both. Stainless doesn't show wear as easily as blue, although I think wear on either gives them character. Stainless is more corrosion resistant. There are some models that just look better one way or the other, but that's just a preference thing. Like, I don't think I could warm up, to a stainless AR.