Thread: 1911 rail guns?
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Old 08-30-2013, 12:16   #47
ES 96
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Originally Posted by kgoerz View Post
MARSOC just purchased new 1911 pistols for the school house and the teams. It was a five million dollar contract. After doing the math they paid $5000 per gun. They didn't prep the surface before applying the Cerekote so it is already worn off the guns. They applied the cerekote to the inside also so all the new guns gunk up and don't work after the first hundred rounds.
Perhaps something like Severn's Hardhat (nitrocarburizing like Tenifer, Melonite, but lower temp‎) would have been the better way to go if stuck with 1911s anyway?

https://severnscustom.com/Hard_Hat_Treatment.html

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