Stainless or blue steel

I like the look of Stainless however Les Baer no longer makes stainless frames and slides for some reason to do with carbon steel being better.
 
there's nothing that"eats" a blued gun quicker than a salt water environment- since stainless was unavailable at the time( they hadn't yet started to use it for gun making material because of the galling) the only 2 options were blue and nickel- at least as far as colt is concerned- parking is/was only available to a very few-or came on military/exmilitary( read us military) guns- i learned a long time ago that unless you keep a blued gun slightly "wet" in some environments it'll rust, no matter what you do- overnite, sometimes- so you clean and oil BEFORE you go to bed- that's the reason i've got a nickel- however, the sights are blued- blue/blackened sights are a pretty well got to have- the nickel.stainless will glare under certain conditions
 
okcorral1881 said:
Hawk are you sure about that? If so where did you hear that?:)
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I think it was on m1911.org but I honestly can't remember. I checked the Les Baer website and they do sell stainless frames. I did some reading and carbon steel has less friction. The modern stainless alloys are supposed to be a lot better than the first stainless alloy used for guns.
 
hawk223 said:
I think it was on m1911.org but I honestly can't remember. I checked the Les Baer website and they do sell stainless frames. I did some reading and carbon steel has less friction. The modern stainless alloys are supposed to be a lot better than the first stainless alloy used for guns.
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Right, Les never stopped selling SS guns. The only thing though (you might have read it from me) is that he won't be selling SS guns with the 1.5" @ 50 yards guarantee....SS is too hard for the extra fitting required for that precision!:)
 
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