I began shooting and reading of shooting about 1973. Then and into the mid 1980's (when I quit subscribing to gun mags) I continually heard "reports" by gunwriters that the...

"...stainless S&Ws could not hold up to the steel models because of the difficulty of polishing stainless and its habit of 'galling'."

I stayed away from stainless revolvers until I bought two Ruger Vaqeuros in bright stainless and their actions were as smooth as any Colt Clone and some Colts as well. Then I came here and began an earnest collecting spree of S&Ws. Of course as I ran out of blued and nickel versions to buy I began buying stainless...again expecting rough actions and hard trigger pulls.

Not so, I would hazard to say that all of my stainless S&Ws (7 or more) have better actions and trigger pulls than many of my blued and nickeled S&Ws regardless of their construction date, be it pre-War, post-War, and later.

So how about the rest of you? Same outcome? Do you S&W stainless revolvers exhibit nice, smooth actions?

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