Appearance : a dark rich blued barrel with some nice wood is really hard to beat. When I look at a stainless barrel.. that is what I see, that blaring stainless color. Not that it is not pretty in its own way, but if I were to hang a rifle on the wall to look at (and I have) it would have a nice wood stock and a blued barrel.

Accuracy: I really see no difference between the two in the accuracy department. I give a lot of credit for accuracy to the person behind the barrel and the work they did at load development. I personally think it is easier to work up a load in a blued barrel. I can't put my finger on why, but I seem to be able to tune them up to a good load, faster.

Cleaning : I think they clean up the same. But I can tell a stainless is clean sooner then a blued. Not so much because they give up their fouling faster, you notice sooner when they are clean. How many times have you swabbed your blued barrel, the patch is clean, you check it, and then decide... lets run a couple more patches. I do it all the time. Only because my eyes tell me there "might" be a spot I missed, and like a lot of you.. I am anal when it comes to cleaning my rifles. With a stainless barrel I clean it, I can look and not see any fouling and my eyes again tell me.. "ok. its clean."

Which do I like better : Wow.. that is a hard one. I like the looks of both, but I guess I would have to go with stainless. Stainless gives you that confidence that the rifle is clean. Also I don't know why, but when I see stainless, I see stronger. And I know that is not the case. But one's mind can play silly games in their head. So I guess I like stainless better.