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 02-02-2010, 08:24 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 230 |  Blued vs. Stainless...
Alrighty, I finally located my Marlin 1895 Guide Gun that I'll be purchasing at the end of the week or beginning of next week. Great prices too.
However, they had both a blued version and a stainless version. As I'm sure you're aware, there is quite a price difference here, close to 100 bucks (could be 80, I was just looking at the stainless rifle).
So, is it worth it? Stainless is way easier to care for, and in my opinion is a lot more pretty....but is it worth 80 or 100 bucks?
A friend of mine said "it doesnt matter too much for a 'sometimes' gun"
What are your opinions? __________________
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| 02-02-2010, 08:38 PM | #2 | Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Austin, Texas, by God!! Posts: 6,059 |
I have a blued Guide Gun. No complaints. Most stainless steels are inferior to good carbon steel for making guns. As the dimensions are identical, the blued gun should be stronger. __________________
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| 02-02-2010, 11:30 PM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 417 |
While I must confess that stainless is SOMETIMES preferable, the times the average hunter and gun owners actually needs their properties is very seldom. I have always took pride in caring for my posessions, everything from shovels to screwdrivers to guns. I always likened a walnut and blued steel gun to having a cute sexy girlfriend. While others may be more robust and maintianence free, it sure is fun to pamper, take pride in, and show off the cute sexy ones. | |
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| 02-02-2010, 11:44 PM | #4 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,190 Liked 5 Times on 5 Posts
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I would never buy an ugly gun to save $80!  __________________ .
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| 02-02-2010, 11:59 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
Cane I agree with just about everything you say but a blued lever gun is not bad looking nor is it ugly unless it is one of them European knock off crap guns.
Me I would go with Blued. Just because I love a nice deep blue job. | |
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| 02-03-2010, 12:04 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 303 |
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Originally Posted by 30-30remchester
While I must confess that stainless is SOMETIMES preferable, the times the average hunter and gun owners actually needs their properties is very seldom. I have always took pride in caring for my posessions, everything from shovels to screwdrivers to guns. I always likened a walnut and blued steel gun to having a cute sexy girlfriend. While others may be more robust and maintianence free, it sure is fun to pamper, take pride in, and show off the cute sexy ones.
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some of us use the stainless properties quite a bit in our hunting. __________________
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| 02-03-2010, 12:17 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sydney, Aust Posts: 2,033 |
Wouldn't stainless matter more if you're shooting in adverse weather? Only asking cos all our club guns are stainless Tikkas...as we shoot no matter what, rain hail or shine.
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| 02-03-2010, 12:28 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 303 |
I hunt hogs in the swamp usually at night, and when we get out of there and back to the truck by the time I get home its usually 1 or 2 sometimes later and dont feel like cleaning the gun. until morning. so I use stainless. __________________
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| 02-03-2010, 12:42 AM | #9 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,190 Liked 5 Times on 5 Posts
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Originally Posted by Dr. Marneaus
Alrighty, I finally located my Marlin 1895 Guide Gun that I'll be purchasing at the end of the week or beginning of next week. Great prices too.
However, they had both a blued version and a stainless version. As I'm sure you're aware, there is quite a price difference here, close to 100 bucks (could be 80, I was just looking at the stainless rifle).
So, is it worth it? Stainless is way easier to care for, and in my opinion is a lot more pretty....but is it worth 80 or 100 bucks?
A friend of mine said "it doesnt matter too much for a 'sometimes' gun"
What are your opinions?
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Originally Posted by cpttango30
Cane I agree with just about everything you say but a blued lever gun is not bad looking nor is it ugly unless it is one of them European knock off crap guns.
Me I would go with Blued. Just because I love a nice deep blue job.
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Tango, FIRST my comment was not that a blued lever gun is ugly. I was keying off Doc's own comment that; ..and in my opinion is a lot more pretty.. he liked the SS.
And I think I speak for everyone here that there is not anything better than a good "blue job". __________________ .
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| 02-03-2010, 12:53 AM | #10 | Iron Man Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South central, NH Posts: 3,261 Likes Given: 1
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SS still rusts. You need to care for both. When a Stainless barrel rusts which is usually below the stock, it is a bitch to stop. Blue. I have blued rifles over 100 years old. They make your heart skip a beat. __________________
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