General question for the experts...I had lunch today with a bunch of gun nuts. We all have S&W revolvers of one type or another...one had a Model 14-4 that was very nice. One of the folks has a lot of experience shooting and collecting S&W's and he made the comment that his older blued steel revolvers had a much smoother action than the newer stainless steel models. I didn't know that and it made me start to think (since I mainly have stainless steel guns). For example, my 686-4 has a case-hardened hammer and trigger...I have not taken it apart, but aren't most of the parts that move to fire the gun made of the same material as the old blued steel guns? Not the flash-chromed or MIM parts, but what else besides the trigger would be involved to make this statement? Do you guys (generally) agree that the old steel blued guns are better (more accurate, better trigger action) than the stainless models?

Thanks, B