Flash or subdued

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Flash or subdued

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Which do you carry?


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Ranger1 wrote: March 26th, 2019, 2:46 pm Which do you carry?
None of your business. :naughty:
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Here let me make it easier on everyone. I didn't make it clear on what I ment. Do you carry a pretty gun ( pearl grips, chrome slide, stainless etc)? Or do you carry Black, flat green, blue, or sand colored etc?
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Back before nitride finishes, when stainless steel was the most practical corrosion-resistant solution to keeping body sweat from turning your piece into an orange flakey brick of rust,...I used to pack only shiny stainless 1911s. I liked how the shiny steel highlighted the cavernous bore;...all the better to hopefully impress someone into submission if I ever had to point it at them.

But I have seen body sweat stain "stainless" guns if attention to cleaning them was not taken. I have never seen a nitride finish rust, however. And add to the tactical advantage of matteness,...I have comepletely switched. Not exclusively for that reason,...I was also transitioning from being a Jeff Cooper 1911 fanatic over to embracing the polymer dark side of Glockness. I still enjoy and prefer a nicely customized and enhanced 1911,...but for daily knocking around, all my EDCs are Glock now.
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Nice. I too have 1911's in my inventory. My father had given me a 1911 2 tone stainless. I had it refinished in FDE. The others are all black.
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The only flash I do would be stippling. Still in black
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My only flash is muzzle flash and my screen name.
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:dance: :dance: :dance:
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There is a theory that it makes sense to carry a gun in a bright attention getting color. If you are accused of brandishing or something similar and they claim a black or silver gun it blows their claim apart. I've considered it but haven't done it.
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I have a two tone pistol, but mostly run the flat black. My argument is that it probably draws less attention. Especially when I’m coming home from swing shifts
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I have some in FDE, white, green and black.
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If you conceal properly, what difference does it make? If you have to pull it, who cares?
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AZ Husker wrote: May 7th, 2020, 12:09 pm If you conceal properly, what difference does it make? If you have to pull it, who cares?
Even though I have a ccw I carry open 85% of the time.
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Black.
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EDC Glock. On special occasions it’s either a 3” 625 or a ported 657mg because flash. Way back in the day when there was such a thing, I used my Raging Bull 8-3/8 for CCW class
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