Personally, I like stainless guns for the ease of cleaning and durability. However, I think blued guns are much better looking. It's been said and I agree, "Stainless has durability and Blue has Soul".
What's your thoughts..............???
Here's a stainless 4" N-Frame Model 25 v/s 4" N-Frame Model 625 (different grips & front sights.....sorry).
Stainless or Cerakote because stainless don't how holster wear and when Cerakote wears, it can be redone easily. I get scabbard wear on my Cerakoted long guns.
You gentle persons are such meanies................Just looking at all the hardware is "ALMOST" better than the first cuppa Joe in the early dawn's light (you even got me waxing poetic, sorta).
Me, personally, I refuse to discriminate or judge based on exterior finish. I'm far too new to this affliction of gun love (less than 12 years, I reckon) for that level of concern, but I gotta say: love them revolvers. Oh, and yes, I have a couple or 9 or so. Both of my adult children visited last fall (they live 1442 miles away) and they also have the affliction, but they are reluctant to wait for me kick off this mortal coil, to acquire for this summers competitions.
P.S. Conned them into cleaning some of the revolvers and semi-auto's (firearms familiarization, you know). Daughter has already laid claim to the Ruger Super Redhawk Revolver 10mm, that is my latest acquisition. And yes, it's stainless.
Personally, I like stainless guns for the ease of cleaning and durability. However, I think blued guns are much better looking. It's been said and I agree, "Stainless has durability and Blue has Soul".
What 1av8r said is how I feel. Of my revolver collection, I have one stainless and two nickel guns, the other eight are blued, my primary preference. I do like stainless, as long as it is the normal matte or brushed finish, and not highly polished. Nickel, to me is sort of gaudy and showy, I prefer a more subdued look. One of my nickel guns is a commemorative and only came in nickel, the other nickel gun is a model I've looked for for quite a while and never found a blued one with a finish that wasn't worn beyond what I would accept.
I like nickel (it's just dang purdy) unless it's starting to chip/peel or become dull, I like blue (it's got soul), I like stainless for it's durability........
Blue for sure! I have a few stainless models too.
If I lived in the deep south will high humidly, I would probably have a few more stainless models.
It seems that there are lots more S&W made in stainless, than blued.
I like both SS and blued, however, that being said you cannot beat the finish of the older blued revolvers. Used to think that the Blued revolvers were more of a hassle to clean but that thinking soon disappeared...just need to care for them a little differently.
A couple of my blued revolvers...the 6" 28-2 was refinished prior to me obtaining it. The model 19-4 has the best blued finish of them all.
Model 28-2 4"
Stainless is easier to maintain, and I like it for a gun that I intend to use at the range.
For a self defense firearm (used in the home or for every day carry) I don't want something bright or shiny. I prefer black color (blued steel, Nitron, etc. finish) firearms for those purposes.
Stainless is easier to maintain, and I like it for a gun that I intend to use at the range.
For a self defense firearm (used in the home or for every day carry) I don't want something bright or shiny. I prefer black color (blued steel, Nitron, etc. finish) firearms for those purposes.
This thread has had me thinking more about stainless vs blued and think I understand something about my preferences. As mentioned, there is an obvious advantage to stainless and my serious bullseye/precision shooting is done with stainless. However, there is something blue collar about a blued gun that draws me in. Especially a blued revolver that has been carried in a duty holster and it shows. I'm talking about that noticeable holster wear, but with most of its finish intact. The one that's been kept clean - that was treated with care. The one its previous owner counted on. The one I could count on as my carry gun. That kind of blue.
Depends on the blue. An unpolished blue gun that looks like it was rattle-can painted with Rustoleum BBQ black, no thanks. But if we're talking high-polish blue... yes. Can even make a Taurus look good.... well sorta.
I have more Blued guns than Stainless so I will say reason is I feel on an older gun the bluing is just deeper and classier. All my newer guns are stainless (2000 and newer). I have one Dan Wesson which has gone plum and that is soul and character to me. However, overall best thing is they all shoot very nicely. I do have one Cimmaron in Nickel but is just plain purty.
We'll try this again...(got the Can & String Rip Off Co, internet dis service here...the strings wuz all tied in a fool knot...like they fool haids...knothaids! that is! anyone that got windstream is getting RIPPED OFF BIG TIME! )
I have had this 625 with the 8-3/8" LC Barrel for a long time...built by Al Greco. The barrel is electroless nickel... Dave is going to have his previously shown revolver done in electroless nickel at some point.
Got the 8-3/8" 586 a couple years ago....youngest son got the 7" 7 Shooter two years ago. The 5-7/8" No Dash Sq. Butt followed me home on Monday...
Yinz'll figure the rest of the pics out...which brings another question? To Flute? Or not to Flute?
I'm not a big fan of the unfluted cylinders, it looks heavy and unfinished, but then I've always owned and shot revolvers with fluted cylinders, so that's what I'm used to seeing.
What is the engraving on the right side of your M25-5? That's a beautiful gun.
@TTSH: I've been very fortunate when finding revolvers with almost perfect finishes. Three that I found (blue M27-2, blue M58"S" prefix, and stainless M66-1) were new in the box, unfired since the factory, and had been safe queens, The others were just well-cared for, and I'm trying to keep the tradition going under my ownership.
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