Anyone wish S&W would bring back blued guns?

[Tamara]

warhammer357,

I am really regretting trading off my very first gun years ago. It was a blued model 29. The blueing was so deep and the finish was so polished you could look in it and see yourself like a mirror!

I know what you mean!

I made a post here or at THR one morning when I had to wake up early to go do a gun show. I went padding through the living room towards the powder room when something caught my eye. In the dim light, there on the coffee table, was my 1964-vintage Model 27-2. It was sitting between a .38/44 Heavy Duty and a Model 544, and the lustrous hand-polished blue on the 99% 27 made the guns on either side of it look parkerized; it looked like a pistol-shaped oil slick in the half-light.

"Starlight and bible black..."

 

[Samuel2001]

Make mine a 4" Model 14 with a skinny barrel! No bull barrrels here. I'll even take blackened stainless at this point!

You boys over at S&W git your act together and start building real guns, even if it's low volume. Just make some of us happy! Oh, and get rid of that damn lock!

Gettin angry, Gotta go! Gotta take meds!

 

[User Name]

Like others have said, I don't care about the new ones (all except the X frame 500...and I like it stainless since I'll hunt with it) so they can make 'em pink for all I care....

 

[Grayfox]

Count me in as a lover of the old deep, bottomless blue of old. I've owned several stainless revolvers over the years, but never kept them. Stainless just doesn't do it for me. I currently only own one stainless S&W revolver. If I run across the blued version of that particular model, it will be gone in a heartbeat.
Now if we could just get S&W to bring back the square butt frame.........

 

[trapshooter]

By gum! It just hit me. I don't own a stainless revolver! I guess I'm a dinosaur. But, may be I like being a dinosaur, in this case.

(Tam's right. There aren't enough of "us" for S&W to give a s--t about)

 

[THebear_78]

Try going on a week long fishing trip here in ak in the month of August, rain every day. Try riding on an airboat for several hours with the fine mist spray off the fan. Don't even get my started about salt spray while hunting out of a boat for blacktails or blackbears along the coast. If your out tenting it on a remote hunt and it decides to rain hard, every day, nothing is dry, nothing. These are the times when I'm glad my 629 is stainless. You could always get one of the moly/teflon/diamondkote in a matte black or blued steel color, might give it some of that sex appeal of the blued smiths.

 

[bigjim]

I made a post here or at THR one morning when I had to wake up early to go do a gun show. I went padding through the living room towards the powder room when something caught my eye. In the dim light, there on the coffee table, was my 1964-vintage Model 27-2. It was sitting between a .38/44 Heavy Duty and a Model 544, and the lustrous hand-polished blue on the 99% 27 made the guns on either side of it look parkerized; it looked like a pistol-shaped oil slick in the half-light.

The really sad thing is how few people even begin to understand this. I have some guns that are painfully beautiful and I paid dearly to get them.

I know its not a revolver but I have a M1 Garand that is in a serial number range that was likely issued to the Marines in WW2. These Marines fought in the battle were my fathers brother was killed. It has damage to the finish on the reciever...... three bloody finger prints left in place to long damaged the finish. When I pull it out of the safe I can feel that battle. It is the most beautiful thing I own.