I actually like blued and stainless equally .
I prefer blued in leveractions as well as single shots and bolt guns if the bolt guns have nice walnut or maple .
I like stainless in synthetic stocks . Some folks around here have gotten into stainless barreled actions in nice walnut . Not my thing at all , but to each his own .
When I was what I called hard core and hunted about every day I wanted stainless synthetic bolt actions . Also when I go for Sika on the Eastern Shore it was good as I hunted around brackish marsh .
Lately I don't have a stainless gun . For the Sika I use a Savage 10ML and a Savage 220 . Both are blued and synthetic . And both seem very good for what I do with them here and at the Eastern Shore .
Now with all this said if I ever build another 6.5-06 I suspect I'll get a Shilen stainless barrel for the rifle . It'll be screwed into an older Remington 700 blued action and most likely put in some sort of synthetic stock in all likelyhood an HS Precision stock with the aluminum bedding block .