I missed the part about nitride, FCD still offers phosphate on some of its parts. I had two of their MDs on previous guns but can't remember wtf they were treated with. Wether suppressed or not is a big determiner (word). Everything I have now has spacers and A2s, two of them by SA, one by John Thomas. I'm so used to how they look they seem normal now.
"We all got it comin"....Will Munny
American Mediocrity is why. We had a shit Faxon barrel that those scumbags didn't make good on. Was shooting like 3 MOA plus after a few hundred rounds. Sent it back and they told Pappabear it looked like it had 10k through it. Had a bad Nitride job. There was a thread here not too long ago about how there were issues with improper nitriding in the industry.
I won't say that I'll NEVER EVER buy a nitride barrel. But right now I'm avoiding them.
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
I also avoid nitrided barrels in favor of CL barrels. The only nitrided barrel I own is a SOLGW 18” SPRish. Between their lifetime guarantee and the lower rate of fire inherent to that type of shooting I’m not concerned with it, but I stick with good CL barrels for my hard use guns.
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