Anyone else find the look of Stainless and Synthetic more appealing than Blued Steel and Wood?

earlthegoat2 said:

Why does it have to be stainless with synthetic?

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Yes why lol

Stainless with wood. =

I'm your Huckleberry........
I do love the look of nicely blued steel and highly polished wood



But my hypocrisy only goes so far...... Stainless and certain unique synthetics I do find slightly more appealing....









Well, it appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds as I do also find my stainless 686 with simple rubber synthetic very appealing....

I own a M70 Extreme Weather and a Kimber Custom Classic Select (AAA French Walnut) both chambered in .308 and both topped with a Leupold VX3i 3.5 -10 x 40 - both are 1/2 to 3/4” rifles with hand loads from the bench.
They both have their own look/ aesthetics and I find them both appealing in their own way and/ or propose. In turn, both are fun to shoot and as a bonus, both like the same hand load combo. It is a great country!

Aim1 said:

I appreciate a beautiful wood stock, I just think stainless and black synthetic look better.

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Heretic.

Stainless and walnut is my favorite.

I'm in the "love a good wood grain, on a stock" group, but I have to deal with the practical aspects of high humidity, where I live.
So, for practical purposes, I'll take a booger-green synthetic stock, with a SS action, over a wood and blued rifle, any day.

That said, there are different dark finishes, like Bruniton and Scandium, which are far more weather resistant than blueing, these days. I guess it's mind over matter, but where I consider wear and tear on a synthetic stock "character" dings and scratches on a wood stock , IMO, are ruinous, and ugly. In essence, for me it's hard to "have your cake, and eat it, too", if I get a rifle with a beautiful wood stock, I'm so afraid I'll damage it that it winds up in the safe, on the throne, till I sell it.

Parkerized and synthetic.

For long guns I like the classic blued steel and wood. An big exception to blued is granted for a finely engraved shotgun receiver.

Anyone else find the look of Stainless and Synthetic more appealing than Blued Steel and Wood?
Absolutely … NO.

I've got a mix of Blued and SS. But I try real hard to stay away from Synthetic stocks. If I get one I swap it out for rubber or wood. I prefer wood even on SS. I'm not sure why I don't like synthetic stocks, but I just don't.

Nope.

Conelrad

NO !

I honestly like both.

Nope. i detest Tupperware in all it's forms.

"Anyone else find the look of Stainless and Synthetic more appealing than Blued Steel and Wood?"

NO!

Bannockburn's Beretta comes close to design perfection for me. From cars to clothes to buildings to furniture to the Morozzi M40 to guns and beautiful women, it is their heritage.

I prefer blued and wood. That said, in some cases I am happy to be pragmatic. My low budget waterfowl and harsh condition pump 12 is blued and black plastic. It gets dragged through the brush, hauled along river bottoms, used in blowing grit prairie, etc. It is the gun I own most likely to be used as a canoe paddle or lost in the bottom of a river. Wouldn't want a wood stick on it.

When I was a late teenager, I got into stainless/synthetic guns. Years later, I still like them, but have gravitated back to wood/blue guns as well. I like stainless with wood, but don't care for blued with synthetic. Looking back, I think of some good deals I missed because at the time, I would look at a blued gun, and think, "why would I want that, it ain't stainless." One in particular was the Browning Light 12 my neighbor offered to sell me at $400. At the time I could see no purpose in such an old school, beautifully blued, perfectly wood stocked, shotgun. I think about it now and quote Homer Simpson, (DOH!)

No. Not in terms of appearance or 'looks'.
However, I am aware of 'usefulness'. I have been aware for many winters a stainless revolver or pistol with rubber or plastic grips is nearly ideal for working in marine environments. In some hunting environments, a stainless and synthetic rifle is probably more practical. I have a recent Ruger M77 Hawkeye Alaskan (.375 Ruger) in a stainless and rubber stock. I didn't buy it for looks.

How about stainless and wood....

I love the looks of blued and stainless guns. Old school deep blueing is beautiful, but I worry about my blued firearms living in FL. Forces me to keep up on the maintenance.

I will say that those all weather Marlin lever guns in stainless with laminate stocks are amazing to look at