why buy a blued gun?????

The problem with stainless is that it is soft, and scratches easily. I can't imagine how much damage a bronze brush must be doing to a stainless bore during cleaning process. I will take my barrel in Chrome/Moly, thank you.
 
Totch94,

You must have a "county" contract to pick up road kills. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif


Seriously, nice butch of deer you have loaded in the bed of that truck.

Hog
 
cronk, I was always under the impression that stainless was a lot harder than chrome moly. I may be wrong, but a custom gun builder told me that. he said the stainless will last a lot longer also.
 
Cronk is right, Stainless is softer. You are right, S/S usually last longer.

I am no metallurgist, but from my line of work, I have found out the softer a metal is the more corrossion resistant it is. Such as listed below in order of hardness
Heat treated steel
Regular steel
SS
Brass
Nickel
Monel

I don't work with it but you can add Gold farther down the list.
 
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Totch94,

You must have a "county" contract to pick up road kills. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif


Seriously, nice butch of deer you have loaded in the bed of that truck.

Hog



That was Pike County IL in the fall of 2005. I killed the big deer on the far right (14 pt 165 B&C) opening day of shotgun season and the third deer from the right(11 pt 131 P&Y) three days before in bow season. The second deer from the right was a buddy's killed the first day of shotgun season, 30 min before mine and 600 yards away, he was a 10 pt 158 B&C. I love to pull that photo out to harrass people because I know it will probably never happen like that again. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
good deer no doubt. Where in MS are you located. I live in Benoit. About 20 miles west of cleveland behind the levee. I'm in between Catfish Point and Merigold hunting clubs. I bet you've heard of one of them probably.
 
Absolutely nothing wrong with a blued gun. They have been aroung for many years. Go to a gun show and look for an old stainless. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif Point being blue will last you a long time. Just take care of it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Some guy told me before that having a semiauto in a blued version is better than in a stainless version. He said that the blue material finish slides easier in the action of a semiauto than stainless does, therefore, creating less hangups. I'm not saying a blued semiauto is more accurate than a stainless version of the same rifle, just that in reality it SHOULD perform more reliably.
 
If I lived where you do Deltahunter, I would probably be asking the same thing. Blue guns are for the most part made of Chrommoly steel which is an ideal metal for gun barrels. Bottom line it is stronger and easier to machine. However, it does rust much quicker than the 400 series stainless steel used. 400 series stainles is used to make it easier for the metal detectors to work. 400 series stainless has a small amount of ferrous metal and is magnetic. It is tough to machine, and new bores need a good and gentle break in period. Out here in PHx, Az, I ask why buy a stainless gun.
 
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If I lived where you do Deltahunter, I would probably be asking the same thing. Blue guns are for the most part made of Chrommoly steel which is an ideal metal for gun barrels. Bottom line it is stronger and easier to machine. However, it does rust much quicker than the 400 series stainless steel used. 400 series stainles is used to make it easier for the metal detectors to work. 400 series stainless has a small amount of ferrous metal and is magnetic. It is tough to machine, and new bores need a good and gentle break in period. Out here in PHx, Az, I ask why buy a stainless gun.



Almost right.
SS barrel steel is a "free machining" SS. It is made "free machining" by additives (mostly sulphur IIRC) that destroy most of it's anti-corrosion properties. It does machine very easily about the same as chrome-moly, maybe easier? The barrel makers I talk to say that the biggest advantage of the SS is that the blanks are more uniform and so can be more uniformly rifled. It has nothing to do with metal detectors which can easily detect non-magnetic metals.

Jack
 
Most stocks you buy today are very well sealed which would be my first concern. Second a blued gun only needs an occasional coat of Rem oil or the like to keep it rust free. Remember an incredible amount of game has fallen to obsolete walnut stocked blued firearms.
 
Well, I've made it for nearly 50 years with blued guns. I don't like SS rifles at all, and don't love it on handguns, either, although I do own two SS revolvers - a Charter Arms .38 and a Ruger Old Army. Blue steel and walnut for me, thank you very much.
 


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