... have always liked the more rugged, "stealthier" look of blued models too... a chance to pick up a like new blued .44 Super Blackhawk 5.5".
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Blue certainly looks "stealthier" than stainless, which can matter plenty in sunlight, or any other light. I always preferred blued in a tracking revolver. Rain and snow are slow to attack polished blue in the cool North Country. However, southern heat & humidity turn on the metal termites, and blue must be kept after with a silicone cloth or moisture-resisting oil, wax, or even paint. Basically, it is my habit to treat carbon and stainless the same. Nevertheless, stainless resists corrosion far better. Since I learned the trail in the AGE of BLUE, I have no inhibition against carrying the carbon steel revolver against adversity.
Today it probably costs more to manufacture a blued revolver, leastwise property polished blue revolver, what with the chemistry and passivation. On the beloved track of a deer, a dedicated awareness of exposure abides of the stainless sixgun. Polished nickel and polished stainless inevitably keep the sixgun holstered through moments a blued or even brushed stainless revolver lay in hand. (A holster for tracking deer has to be fast, that's all there is to it.)
Seems curiosity answers your question. Fetch home the blued sixgun, then lavish it with ammunition & trigger time.
David Bradshaw
