BCC

I concur with your point if you are saying that everything else being equal, the "plastic" type grips will show less wear that their wooden counterparts. I have seen the bakelite type grips show some dings and wear on nicely finished pistols (say 90%) and I know these were the original grips, this can be attributed to frequent rough handleing, otherwise known as normal life in the military (any country's army). I offer one further observation on holster wear, and that is this: most often PURE holster wear, regardless if its blue wear or some type of grip wear, is fairly localized. This can be in the form of severly spots that served as friction or contact points againist the leather and a lot of movement/time. IMO when pistols show large general areas of worn off or very thin blue and patinia, it is more likely a sign of extensive handeling and cleaning of light rust....another aspect common to all military (war) used pistols.