The question betwen steels is not betwen Stainless or carbon steel, its much more than that.
Very few producers today are using carbon steel at all and instead using low or high alloy steel.
The differnce lies in the others compnents of the steel like nickel, vanadium, tungsten,lead, etc. etc.
If you simply comperes the cheapest and worst carbon steel against the cheapst and worst stainless steel you will deffinitely find two very unsuiteable steel qualitys.
On the other hand if you compere the better stainless tool steels to the better alloy steels you will find the characsteriskts fairly similar.
But the SS steel does always have a higher risk of galling.
I would personally not be scared of building a supertight pistol in a really good SS quality.
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For a steel to be considerd as SS it's generally said that it should have a content of at least 12% chromium.
Normal SS steel used kitchens etc does normally have a content of ca 18% chromium and 8 % nickel.
The Chromium and the nickel content is making the steels softer and is rising the chanse of galling.
To prevent galling the steel can be made harder and this way also more costly to buy and to machine.
Therefor mostly producers of SS semiautomatic guns are using steels that are inferior for the purpose.
To prevent galling with their inferior steel they are generally making their guns pretty sloppy, as the loose fit will prevent galling to an extent.
Take a colt 1911 SS gun for example, it will work fairly ok as long as its sloopy as an old......
But when you make it's as tight as a teen...... it will gall and loose it's tightness within a few tousands rounds.
I have not much experince of Taurus pistols and absolutely no positive experince at all.
If you must buy a taurus you better stick to a Blued that most likely is made out of an alloy steel.
But you would probaly be better of with a cheap S&W m10 or whatever.
Regards
HÃ?Â¥kan Spuhr
http://www.vapensmedjan.com