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Post by Encore64 on Dec 28, 2021 9:10:21 GMT -5
I like blue revolvers with stainless cylinders. Most of all, I like the strength and heat treating characteristics of 17-4 Stainless.
This seems offensive to some folks, but that's what makes customs great.
Where are you at on this?
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Post by bushog on Dec 28, 2021 9:10:54 GMT -5
Nope
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Post by bigbrowndog on Dec 28, 2021 9:14:10 GMT -5
I don’t mind it either way,……I wouldn’t set out to build a multi color but if those were the parts I had, I’d have no issue with it.
Trapr
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Post by pacecars on Dec 28, 2021 9:18:15 GMT -5
I am having Jack Huntington convert a blued .357 magnum cylinder to .38-40 for my stainless S&W 610 and while I have thought about leaving it blued I think I am just going to have him hard chrome it. I just can’t do the pinto thing with it
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Post by brant on Dec 28, 2021 9:22:30 GMT -5
I buy guns that check certain boxes for me. Whatever those boxes are that day. However, what it looks like or how cheap it is are seldom boxes I need checked. So it needs to feel really good, shoot real good or fill another need. I have several single sixes so I won’t be buying any Wranglers just because they are inexpensive.
So would I buy one? Yes. If I needed it for what it is capable of. But I prefer to not mix my pleasures. My preference is all stainless. I am not even sure how I feel about brass grip frame guns.
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Post by squigz on Dec 28, 2021 9:28:56 GMT -5
I like them, they're different and they give a certain look to a revolver that normally isn't there.
I also like some of the "performance" ones that are colored a matte black or green.
I seem to remember someone on here at one point and time had a green single action with a black cylinder and walnut grips in 500L. Though, it may not be the most "beautiful" looking gun, I sure as heck loved the looks of it.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Dec 28, 2021 9:31:18 GMT -5
I actually prefer "monochromatic" guns... but have several that have turned plum color on parts & not on others... some are OK to look at... my 257 Special, ended up that way, because of available parts for the project... on my 257, the base gun was stainless but my retired tool & die buddy that built it for me, only had 4140 on hand for the cylinder, & the barrel was a piece of blued 25 caliber rifle barrel... once put together, I had the carbon steel parts reblued, & the stainless polished...  |
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Post by Encore64 on Dec 28, 2021 9:34:05 GMT -5
I don't like brass on anything. It's ok to polish it up and take a picture. But, it's heavy and doesn't look good long.
That said, to each their own. It's odd, I like blued guns with a stainless cylinder, but not the reverse.
It's just not something I've ever seen discussed much and I thought it'd be interesting.
My only gun that is blue with a stainless cylinder is my 5-Shot 38-40. Thinking seriously about a couple more in the stable.
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Post by bullseye on Dec 28, 2021 9:45:58 GMT -5
I own several blued Ruger's with Stainless &/or polished aluminum grip frames, I've just always liked that look. That being said, my #1 prerequisite for any firearm is that it be accurate...If a gun shoots extremely well, I really couldn't care less what it looks like.
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Post by 45dragoon on Dec 28, 2021 9:46:04 GMT -5
I have 4 blued S.A. revolvers with stainless cylinders and will soon have a 5th one - all in 45C. All that are convertibles have blued acp cyls.
Mike
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Post by taffin on Dec 28, 2021 9:52:30 GMT -5
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Post by bigbrowndog on Dec 28, 2021 9:52:44 GMT -5
I like them, they're different and they give a certain look to a revolver that normally isn't there. I also like some of the "performance" ones that are colored a matte black or green. I seem to remember someone on here at one point and time had a green single action with a black cylinder and walnut grips in 500L. Though, it may not be the most "beautiful" looking gun, I sure as heck loved the looks of it. Squigz, that was my 500maximum I believe. It didn’t stay green and black long, maybe a year and a half. Then it got CCH’d and Blued,……which in affect would be a two tone revolver as well!!!! Earlier I said I wouldn’t set out to build a multi color, but that’s not true,…….all my 1911/2011 are two tone, hard chrome or stainless frames and blued or blackened slides. Trapr |
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Post by bushog on Dec 28, 2021 9:57:22 GMT -5
Then there was the stainless and case colored TLA not long ago….
May have been left in the white and not stainless…no matter…
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Post by foxtrapper on Dec 28, 2021 10:28:42 GMT -5
I have a couple of pintos. Like them when I ordered them still do! Would I build another, no. Buttttt by chance my stainless bearcat will soon have a blue auxiliary 22 mag cylinder.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Dec 28, 2021 10:33:41 GMT -5
John... that looks like my 257... yours I assume Ivory Grips, Mine Buffalo Horn  |
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