[lowtech]

I know this has been done before but I must have missed it. What is wrong with stainless steel? Almost every smith seems to recoment carbon. Please educate me.

 

[Sean Smith]

FWIW, I prefer stainless. It is functional, looks good and is cheap to restore to like-new finish. If you want the best looks going, though, it is hard to beat a deep bluing on a polished gun. Also, stainless is kind of bright and not really appropriate for a "tactical" type gun, hence the various high tech paint jobs out there. OTOH, bluing, parkerizing and the various hi-tech finishes all wear off eventually and have to be reapplied at considerable cost.

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[Mike Benedict]

I prefer stainless steel for a hard use pistol myself.
All the pistols I use a lot are stainless or chrome.

Mike

 

[Teddy Jacobson]

I prefer STAINLESS STEEL myself. When I have a choice I always buy SS guns for myself except for my P7 pistols and my GLOCKS.

Teddy
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[Shane1911]

On 2001-06-04 17:31, Mike Benedict wrote:
I prefer stainless steel for a hard use pistol myself.
All the pistols I use a lot are stainless or chrome.

Mike

Me too. :smile:

 

[jm10mm]

I believe the problem with stainless is the tendency to gall when you have tight tolerences. I prefer the stainless frame and blued slide pistols. aka Colt Combat Elite. If I was Building a gun for heavy use it would be Hard Chrome.

 

[lowtech]

Thanks for your input crew. Now for the record what exactly is GALL? as in a stailess steel slide might gall?