mptrimshop
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Are the really shiny ones chrome....keep the pic's coming i'm loving them... i want a shiny gun so bad.....do you pay alot more for them? I'm thinkin a 1911
Shiny Guns
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crashbuell
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Certain guns look good shiny, but then again, there are guns that have no business being shiny. My buddy had a Sig that had a stainless slide that was polished. Man, that just didn't look right. When I think Sig, I think tactical, and shiny ain't tactical.
The Lone Haranguer
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Most likely nickel.mptrimshop said:
QUICK_DRAW_McGRAW
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i would love that 1911, that is perfect for me, well that or a nickle colt detective special with ivory grips
mptrimshop
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is that nickel?...if so how fast will it dull?
The Bushmaster
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Nickel? Dull? Not that I know of. My nickel plated revolver is still shinny after 24 years. All it gets is wiped down with a dry t-shirt.
The 1911 is Nickel. Honestly don't know how long that nickel finish has been on the gun, but I've owned it for about six or seven years, and it looks as good today as the day I bought it, and it's been carried a fair amount.
My best guess is that this gun was put together and probably nickel plated in the 80's.
The Python on the first page, is Colt factory polished Stainless Steel.
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mptrimshop
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so if i want a nice BBQ gun i should get nickel?
Jed Carter
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Just got rid of my last nickel plated S&W, still have one stainless Springfield 1911. Would buy the Smith 1911 PRO 9mm if it was not stainless, only flash coming from a handgun should be muzzle flash. Actually the only reason I do not prefer nickel / stainless firearms is they soil easily and seem to be much more difficult to get clean and revolvers are a complete pain to get all the cylinders clean when they are "shiny". Buy what you like, shoot what you buy.
hard chrome scg .45!
There's some misunderstanding of "history" here. Let's address it:
Back in the "day" of great American guns - the wild west - a smart pistolero would be sure to order his S&W Model 3 or his Colt SAA in nickel plate. This is because in the technology of the day, this was the most durable, corrosion resistant finish he could get. If he wanted to ride the Oregon trail, he'd be a little foolish to order a blued gun when he could get a nickel plated one. And many of them were ordered and carried that way. For those folks who look at, buy, and cherish older firearms, a shiny nickel palted gun is certainly not a "pimp" gun. It's a working gun.
So while some folks may view a bright nickel gun as "flashy," the fact is it was invented to be durable and to serve the cowboy or frontiersman. And when it comes to the modern durability of stainless steel, there's no way to criticize that as a choice. And making it shiny through polishing just increases it's resistance to dirt and prints that can corrode it - simply a fact. I won't apologize for having "shiny" guns in my collection.
In fact, I just this week traded this one to another THR member, Mike Faires, and he's sending me the exact same gun but in even shinier nickel plate.
This ones pretty shiny, too, in the daylight:
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