Stainless Steel or Blued

[KiwiKev]

Hi guys - getting close to buying my first Rossi Ruma. Should I go for Stainless Steel or Blued? And there are two kinds of bluing as well!

[Arminius]

get whatever you can, if it´s a nice gun without safety.

IMO they don´t make them in the same quality anymore.

One can never have too much LA´s ...

Hermann

( who particularly dislike 45 LA´s, as there was no such animal there in the west )

[Old Ironsights]

I'm a fan of matte stainless...

[Hobie]

I like my .45 Colt...

[Griff]

I'm rather partial to blued & CCH'd steel; my .45 Colt:

[Old Savage]

I like OIs but mine are blued.

[JerryB]

To me guns are blued steel and walnut. Beside my old Winchester 1892 32wcf, I have an early Rossi 92 in .357 and a Rossi Hartford 92 in .45 Colt to match my old Colt.
You get what you like and enjoy, they sure are slick little guns.

[RIHMFIRE]

my 92 is blue....

but if it rains alot where you live...i might go for the SS

[AJMD429]

My philosophy is:

• if I'm going to sweat on it, I get stainless
  if I want it to look pretty, I get blued, but...
  • ...plan on lots of 'fondling' and cleaning after each use
  if I want to use it alot, and still look pretty, I get stainless, because...
  • ...blued-but-rusty looks worse than stainless

[1894c]

YES... :)

[Old Savage]

I have had both and it was nice not to be concerned about the stainless.

[Rusty]

If ya get the blued one it will look like stainless after you wear all the blue off of it.

[El Chivo]

stainless is for bolt guns with plastic stock; go for the blue and walnut.

[gak]

All mine are blued, but I would echo the comments if it is rainy or particularly humid where you are (and I would think it is) - stainless...and think about the matte (having it beadblasted - Steve Young (NKJ) does this) to reduce glare.

[rjohns94]

Mine was brushed stainless.

[M. M. Wright]

I vote for blue/cch. Really like Griff's but am partial to 20" bbls.

[KiwiKev]

Great replies guys. Is the standard stock on the Rossi walnut? Have some stocks been known to crack?

[Griff]

Great replies guys. Is the standard stock on the Rossi walnut? Have some stocks been known to crack?

I've got three Rossis. Ages run for the mid '80s to about a 2005. Nary a crack in the lumber. There has been some shrinkage on the newest, but that's only in the area in the toe of the stock. (about a 1/16").

I don't know that their stocks are walnut, but rather some mystery brazilian hardwood. Grain and color vary quite a bit, so they're usually stained on the dark side. I've seen some that have been stripped of this finish and are quite good lookin'. Others, not so.

[COSteve]

Done

[Chuck 100 yd]

I like both but Favor the stainless for usin guns.

[L_Kilkenny]

Given that a platform is "readily" available in SS I'll take that. But if I find a platform I like and finding SS would mean extra diggin and possibly a wait I'll settle for blue.

[jeepnik]

As mentioned, it's a personal choice. Mine happens to be stainless. I like to look of stainless and solid wood. Plywood or synthetic stocks just looks cheap to me.

[Panzercat]

I'm a whore for stainless

[tman]

Stainless, for a hunting rifle

[KiwiKev]

Finally arrived today. I purchased .38/.357 mag, blued, 24 inch octagonal barrel with no safety. Hope to take it to the range this weekend. Dark walnut.

So how does it work? The half cock thing? Also does the firing pin have a spring or is it lose? I am very interested in the mechanics of this action.

Kev.

[Pointshoot]

Ive only got a few leverguns (will have to do something about that situation). All but one of them is blued. One of my Marlin Guide Guns is stainless with laminate stock. I don't mind that at all, when up here in the Pacific NW it often rains a lot.

I like blue & nice walnut - but have various handguns, rifles, and shotguns which fit into the 'really nasty weather' category. On 'those kinda days' the blued guns stay at home and the stainless ones get to play.

[gak]

I believe the only factory Rossi claiming (correctly) to be "genuine walnut" was the relatively short-lived Navy Arms - late 90s/2000-2006 or so? All no safety btw.

[piller]

My 92 is blued. As far as it goes, I got mine in blue because that was what was in stock.