Shiney guns?

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ZVP

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I dunno if it's old age or what but my tastes have changed to shiney guns "Polished Stainless and Nickel)! Maybe It's the fact I want to pass em down someday?
Maybe I just have started liking BBQ Guns?
For years I have herd about the difficultys with shiney bright sights and want to say, "It ain't so". The bright sights work just fine for me.
My latest is a Nickle Model 36 Chief Special (WOW! what a pretty pocket gun!)
What's your preference?
ZVP
 
I too am slowly changing,,,

Five years ago I wouldn't own anything not blue steel,,,
Then I was gifted a Model 629.

Man is that sucker easy to clean.

I have a couple of guns,,,
One in blued steel (Model 15),,,
And another one in stainless (Model 67).

For pure aesthetics I like blue steel,,,
But I find myself shooting the stainless more often.

Again it's because they are so much easier to clean.

Aarond

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Personally my tastes run to wood and high polish blued steel. I do like some guns in a nickeled finish but for some reason am not drawn to stainless, who knows maybe the right stainless gun will come along and it'll make me change my mind.

Stu
 
Yeah, polished blue is my preference in terms of appearance. I'd really like something that has a similar appearance, but is tougher. I had this gun finished in boron carbide, ten or twelve years ago. It does have a few marks on it now, here and there, but it's almost impervious to the typical "holster wear" - especially kydex holsters - that appears on blued guns.
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I like my nickel plated Model 37, and my nickel Colt Detective Special.I really like my stainless Model 60,64,and 66 snubbies,but I love my blued Colts the best!
 
I refuse to buy any gun that is blued. For me, it's either stainless, or nothing at all. I am also prone to taking my matte stainless guns, a tube of Flitz, and polishing the *#$?! out of 'em until they look like they're nickel plated.:cool:
 
Shiny pistols like pearl handles are to paraphrase Patton, for New Orleans business men.

Give me a flat low maintenance Parkerized finish that will give me years of hard use.
 
Most of these guns have seen considerable use and have anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 rounds fired through them, and only a reasonable amount of care:

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They have been caried in high humidity condition, rain, and whenever we have that rare phenomenom, snow.

They show honest wear, not abused, and look just fine to me.

Bob Wright
 
For the range or the safe, it is mainly a matter of taste. But in some "serious social" conditions, a nickel or stainless gun catches the light and can provide a neat target, something one might not want to be holding.

Jim
 
How do you define "reasonable?" You remind me of gun control proponents who want "reasonable gun laws."
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I define "reasonable cleaning" as removing/opening the cylinder, cleaning the chambers with Hoppe's No. 9, then cleaning the bore with Hoppe's No. 9. Dry and lightly oil. Wipe down the exterior and apply my gun oil rather heavily, then close/replace the cylinder and wipe down with a shop towel. This as soon as possible after firing. Once a year or so apply linseed oil to the wood.

"My" gun oil is a 50/50 mix of automotive motor oil and Three-in-One machine oil.

That clear enough for you?

Bob Wright
 
Here in Deep South, high humidity Louisiana, stainless is preferred, or one of the metal treatments like Glock uses. I've seen guns rust overnight. Especially if a leather holster gets wet, it's depressing to have your gun start rusting before the shift is over.
 
I'm not particularly a fan of nickel due to it's ease to wear. Worn bluing looks 100 times better than flaky nickel. Not to mention you can polish stainless to a shine that will fool a lot of people into thinking it's nickel. And you can always keep polishing stainless to keep it shiny. I like shiny.

Here is a high polish bluing and a high polish stainless of mine.

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In my opinion stainless doesn't "age" as well as nickel. As nickel ages it gets sort of a "brassy" look to it that just says "been there, done that." It's like a worn blue, it spells character.

Bob Wright
 
I may be many things, but a "New Orleans businessman", I ain't. I just happen to like shiny guns. Interestingly, I read a Massad Ayoob article in which he said that he also liked shiny guns, that they tend to catch the available light in a dark area during a confrontation, thereby letting the bad guy know that "this ain't no joke".
 
I like stainless because it requires less maintenance and because if it gets scuffed, I can repair the finish myself with stuff I can buy for next to nothing at a local hardware store.

I also like being able to modify a carry gun by taking off an uncomfortable corner or sharp edge without having to send it off to be refinished when I'm done.
But in some "serious social" conditions, a nickel or stainless gun catches the light and can provide a neat target, something one might not want to be holding.
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I can see this being an issue for the military and tactical LE organizations. I have a harder time coming up with a scenario when I would be using a gun to shoot at someone in legal self-defense under circumstances where I would be also trying to conceal the fact that I was the one shooting at them.

Maybe a situation where I am not the primary target of the shooter and the conditions are dark. But if that were the case and conditions were so dark that the difference between blued and stainless was telling, it would also probably be dark enough that I would want to use my flashlight to be able to see/identify the shooter and that would make me more of a target than a shiny gun.
 
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