S&W 1911 Question

[vellnueve]

I've found that it's a lot easier to keep my SW1911 Stainless clean. A cleaning patch and some M7Pro or Hoppes is all I need to wipe the powder marks off. Meanwhile, it's a pain to keep the oily fingerprints off my blued SW41.

For a pistol I shoot the most often out of all of mine, I like it stainless.

It also helped that the stainless model was over $100 cheaper than the blued railed model I was looking at.

 

[wahsben]

It's been mentioned in some of the other posts about M Pro 7. I have found it to work very well on powder stains.

 

[Slim]

What you couldn't get it gold plated?

Respectfully,

jkelly

Heh, yeah. It's also my first 1911. I grabbed that pic off the S&W site. Pics dont do this any justice. I never had any plans to buy a 1911 until I saw and fired this one.

 

[FPrice]

Ouch!

Yeah, a well blued 1911 looks like a Glock! So there!


Respectfylly,

jkelly

Just one more reason to get a blued gun!

 

[Scrivener]

If you are THAT hung up on keeping it all shiny, pretty and Immaculate Conception clean, don't bother with stainless. Get your gun coated with one of the new vapor deposition coatings.

They work for cutting tools, race car engines and high-pressure, precision molds. They will more than suffice for a mere handgun and they even come in colors!

 

[jkelly]

Just one more reason to get a blued gun!---FPrice

I hadn't thought of it that way, but I guess that's one way to look at it.

Respectfully,

jkelly

 

[vellnueve]

I personally prefer blued, but like I said Stainless is very practical for guns that get used a lot.

 

[Weerd Beard]

Go stainless.

Cause real bluing just doesn't seem to exist anymore.

+1 to that!

Tho there are some private guys that will do a REAL bluing job around still. I saw a guy in the Loeb range a few weeks back with an old .45-70 that he had had reblued. The work was VERY good.