Originally Posted by
ViniVidivici
Indeed, we're talking about tools, not jewelry.
Might seem counter intuitive but the only time I really care about "uber finishes" is my carry gun and that's just because a daily carry is gonna take a lot of holster wear (especially kydex), rain, sweat and elements. So it's about maintenance and not having to do a weekly clean on my carry gun.
With rifles, with the exception of anything collectible, it's a little different. In most cases "spray jobs" are going over a quality factory finish from the start and most of the time it's done for environmental camo or just to keep your scratch and dent carbine from looking quite so scratch and dent. Now I don't personally jump out of planes with my guns, I don't hunt the Taliban and won't be going on a sniper crawl any time soon so most of my Colts are just well maintained. Even my range guns don't get banged around enough to justify spray on maintenance.
But one day, time and money permitting, I'd love to create a winter carbine just "because." I'd have no problem running it in the summer because unless something "really, really bad" happened, I'm not gonna be crawling through the snow looking for trouble anyway. And honestly, the camo finish on my carbine will probably be the last thing to skyline me to the enemy if it all went to shit. I'm 100% certain that if I had to defend the local perimeter from roving bands of FSA types, just as I was setting up on them, my wife would ping my cell phone asking me to pick up bananas from the store.
Any real deal fighters are gonna pick up my red dot emitter, scan my FRS radio or make my well laundered BDU stuff shine with their IR illuminators. And that is why I'm not gonna go hunting trouble and will just see if I can create a "no fly zone" for a half mile in each direction.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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