To flute or not to flute?

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by 4 Scale

With patience you can find a fluted pin for around $50 or so on eBay or Gunbroker; and I think I recall that Tom Heller sometimes has them. Quick check on Gunbroker shows a lot of them at $40. Given the modest cost of an original I cannot see why it would be a good idea to modify an existing FP.

Especially when one "really" does not need one.

We all have time to clean our pistols after firing- the only potential need for a grooved pin is if you are in the trenches and have no time to maintain or are afraid you will drop your parts in the mud!

Even then the Germans made it all the way from 1900 to 1930 without grooved strikers.