Anyone wish S&W would bring back blued guns?

Should S&W bring back the blued revolvers?

  • Yes! Bring back the 13, 19, and all the purty guns!

    Votes: 123 89.1%

  • No! Stainless keeps better and fills all my needs.

    Votes: 12 8.7%

  • Don't care... Got my plastic.. er, polymer guns!

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Total voters
    138
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Coffee357

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I miss the look of the blued guns and don't have an attachment to the stainless revolvers I see around today. They just don't develop the same kind of character. Anyone else feel this way?
 
Have you heard about the upcoming M21-4 .44 Special ? 4" bbl N frame, blued, fixed sights. It's a "Thunder Ranch Special" and sounds like other calibers may be in the future if this works out.
 
I voted 'don't care' but not because I have plastic or poly or anything else. I have a tremendous appetite for blued S&W wheelguns, just nothing they have made in the last few years. The new guns would have to be nearly free to even get a second look. Stainless guns do nothing for me, never could like them as hard as I have tried and I have gotten rid of all that I owned now. No more of them either unless nearly free.

I really don't care what S&W does now or if they even exist, the older guns are filling my want list.
 
While the Model 10 and Model 36LS have doggedly held on as Smith's only regularly-catalogued blued guns, the recent appearance of last year's Model 29 Mountain Gun and this year's Model 25 Mountain Gun and the Thunder Ranch Model 21 seem to be cause for hope.

Most of the demand for blued guns is driven by nostalgia and hard-core gun nuts that like to spend their free time shooting, going to gun shops, and talking guns on the internet. Casual shooters seem to prefer low-maintenance stainless, at least according to the sales figures.
 
Tamara probably has a point.

Most of the current commerce of the United States panders to the lazy and negligent.

I still like the blue guns, and for that matter, the pinned and recessed, hammer-mounted firing pin blued guns. (Sans lock.)

But there aren't that many of us to influence manufacturing trends.
 
Yeah, they look nice, but I have no use for them. All I have to do is look at a blued gun and it will rust. I'm like one of the creatures from Alien, except the acid comes out of my fingers.
 
I wish S&W offered more blued revolvers. I also wish that the Model 10 would come with the classic tapered barrel. I hate the look and feel of that bull barrel they got on it now.

Oh yea, the Model 10 should be pinned and recessed.
 
Nothing beats the blue .... particularly the depth of luster you see on the earlier models. Still have a hard time coming to terms with the newer finishes.
 
don't care no mo'

I cut my handgunning teeth on Smiths, and when they decided to change the lockwork (sort of like the great winchester debacle of 1964,messing with the model 70) that was it, no more Smiths... :eek:
 
I have to say I own some stainless S&W's, but I much prefer blued. My daily carry weapon is a blued gun. I don't seem to have any problems with rust, but then I do wipe it down at the end of each day.
 
I didn't vote because more than one option appealed to me and other options were not available.

1. I like stainless revolvers.
2. I like the appearance of blued revolvers, but don't
particularly desire to buy one.
3. I like my combat tupperware.
4. Choice is good. They should continue to make blued
revolvers for those who like them that way.
 
If the whiz-kids at S&W could figure out a way to make a blue-appearing compound that could be applied to their stainless guns, they'd have the best of both worlds.... :D

Classic S&W "blued" guns made from the same materials & machinery as their stainless guns. Little to no retooling needed... :cool:

Beats making green revolvers.... :barf:
 
Polishing and bluing require more skill than Smith & Wesson is willing to invest except in a very few high ticket guns.
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Last I checked, the Model 10 was about the cheapest roundgun in their lineup. :confused:

Oh yea, the Model 10 should be pinned and recessed.
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The M&P has never been recessed. Only magnums and rimfires used countersunk chambers.
 
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