Why are stainless barrel bushings on blued/black guns so popular??
To me it looks totally out of place, like the factory ran out of blued bushings and threw a stainless one on. It doesn't match the rest of the gun, and it seems a lot of manufacturers are doing this and it's annoying. Springfield, Ruger, and many others all do this on their blued or black colored 1911s. I just don't get it. Stainless guns don't come with blued bushings!
I was looking into the Springfield "Mil-Spec" model and wanted to put a set of USGI brown plastic grips on it to get a reasonably close M1911A1 lookalike, but of course it's got a bright shiny barrel bushing sticking out like a sore thumb on the front of the gun. I don't get it.
Any technical or performance reasons for this? Does this bother anyone else??
Toots
To me it looks totally out of place, like the factory ran out of blued bushings and threw a stainless one on. It doesn't match the rest of the gun, and it seems a lot of manufacturers are doing this and it's annoying. Springfield, Ruger, and many others all do this on their blued or black colored 1911s. I just don't get it. Stainless guns don't come with blued bushings!
I was looking into the Springfield "Mil-Spec" model and wanted to put a set of USGI brown plastic grips on it to get a reasonably close M1911A1 lookalike, but of course it's got a bright shiny barrel bushing sticking out like a sore thumb on the front of the gun. I don't get it.
Any technical or performance reasons for this? Does this bother anyone else??
Toots
