Do you like guns in FDE

Do you like guns in FDE

  • I like 2 tone FDE and black

    Votes: 26 32.5%

  • I like both frame in slide in FDE

    Votes: 19 23.8%

  • I'm traditional. I only like black

    Votes: 19 23.8%

  • Don't care so long as it's a good shooter

    Votes: 22 27.5%
  • Total voters
    80
  • Poll closed .
I ask myself this question often. And... I still don't have an answer. I don't own anything in FDE. I can't say that I dislike it. I have to admit, it has grown on me a little bit over time. I just can't fully get behind it because it doesn't fit in with my needs or surroundings.
 
I think they are attractive...but maybe only because they're different. I really like the guns I've seen that have FDE color frames with all other external parts (slide, takedown lever, mag release, slide stop lever, magazine base pads, safety, etc.) being black.

I've also seen stainless slides on FDE frames but, for whatever reason, didn't really like that look.
 
No....black, and plastic, highly polished blue and wood, or stainless and whatever. But I don't do Technicolor. Not even flat tan.
 
I feel a sort of disdain towards FDE. It's a recent trend and my cynical side thinks it's just because we want to be like the boys in the sand bucket. Companies charge more for it while in most cases it neither costs more to manufacture nor adds functionality. It's a fashion/fad and I'm hesitant whenever I identify things as such. Too easy to be swept away yet when we move on to the next big thing we usually don't look back and think "I could've just done without that one too"
 
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If it has to be polymer I think the Sig P320's and Smith M&P's (particularly the vtac model) look good in it, but to me those and the HK VP series are the best looking striker guns anyway.
Of course given a choice everything would be blued/wood or stainless/wood.
 
^ I'm in the same boat.

Honestly the name even bothers me, just call it tan, if you have to dress up the name maybe its not that great to begin with. If you like tan, good for you, but when it cost more or folks brag about it I just don't understand. But hey its your property not mine so I don't really have anything to complain about.
 
I like to have some contrasting color to the black sometimes.

It's an aesthetic thing for me. The FDE framed glocks with black controls and slide looks good for example.

I like FDE, ODG, and the new grey color from magpul look good. Not all the variations are appealing to me, I prefer the darker FDE, and the magpul version is OK.

My AR has ODG furniture. I plan on putting the magpul grey on my new AR10.
 
I didn't vote because there wasn't an option that fits my answer per say. I thought FDE guns were pretty cool looking when they first came out. I owned a few over the years as well. But as the years went on, I lost interest in them. It seems as if EVERY company started putting out firearms in FDE and it just lost it's appeal with me.

Now I know that there are only so many color schemes that work with firearms, but FDE wore out it's welcome with me haha:D You don't see nearly as many gray, OD green, or various camo patterns as you do FDE. It's obviously popular or there wouldn't be so many being made, but I'd like to see color schemes move on to something else at this point.
 
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My SP2022 in FDE is hella sexy.
 
I would rather have a rainbow/tribal gun than an FDE gun. Rainbow looks neat on purpose and doesn't really need to be justified, but I'm not a navy seal and I live in north America so why would I have coyote brown or FDE or whichever word for tan is popular accessories. It's a poser badge, plain and simple... unless you brought it back, in which case I thank you for your service.
 
Not sure where some of you live but unless it's Antarctica tan will blend into just about any area just as well as black. Except blacktop. Black wins there. But in your front yard, tan is just as camo as black. So both are as pointless. On a dirt road black is pointless and tan wins. In the woods both are equal. At night both are equal.

That said. I love my black 92fs. Love my black lc9s mainly because it's a carry and blends in with my black belt. My canik stingray is great looking in tan but the finish is starting to wear now at the 1500 round mark. Not much on the exterior but interior wear areas are. No different than my black wearing to metal color in wear areas I guess.

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Big Mikey, you need a Calico...just like the ones in Spaceballs ;)
All ya need is one calico .22lr rifle, aka the model 100, and silver paint for plastic...
applied to the mag and the foregrip...and a nice stand...
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Its actually way easier to cosplay Spaceballs Troopers than Stormtroopers...hehehe
 
I'm with Cheapshooter. Firearms should be black, blued, stainless, shiny (chrome or nickel) or camo (properly dipped for a hunting firearm) - and not two-tone. Heck, I'm almost ashamed to walk into the woods with a stainless Encore receiver hooked to a blued barrel.
 
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