Re: Choices of small handguns

At 02:53 PM 12/30/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:

(* I've heard some claim that stainless steel is not a good idea, as it glints in the dark. Perhaps, but this seems like a second-order effect for any real use. It is also possible to get it in blackened stainless, as the SIGs are commonly in.)

I've heard that (presumably early) stainless was subject to galling, presumably fixed. IANAMetallurgist. As far as specular reflection goes, consider how many wear shiny watches which would be largely in the plane of the slide. dh