RE: blue or stainless steal
 

I'm with stubblejumper on that. All my predator rifles are bull barreled stainless and I have never had a coyote bust me. They are dull stainless;no shine or sheen. Ii love stainless for it's low maintenance and appearance.

RE: blue or stainless steal
 

The problem with Savage is they don’t have bead blasted stainless steel finish. I had problems with mine in that I was getting glare in my scope on a sunny day because of the shinny finish...

RE: blue or stainless steal
 

Trailer, is this on an older Savage that shined too bright for you? I have 4 new accutrigger stainless rifles; 3 bull bbl and one sport bbl and these guns have no sheen or shine. Here is a new.300 wsmtaken in bright light. As you can see the Leupold scope has a shinier finish then it does.

RE: blue or stainless steal
 

Here is another,a mod 12 with 26'' fluted stainless bbl.

RE: blue or stainless steal
 

My Savage was a couple of years old and was the 93R17 FVSS, topped up with a Bushnell Trophy 6-18. At lower power it was fine but when cranked up to 18x ,I had problems...