Source: Shooting Illustrated
Steve Adelmann at Shooting Illustrated gets the conversation going among gun aficionados about the pros and cons of using a surface treatment on rifle barrels called “liquid salt bath ferritic nitrocarburizing non-cyanide bath”, more commonly known as FNC. Experts weigh in on nitrided barrels and agree that accuracy in the heat treating process known as slow quench-polish-quench (QPQ) produces long-term results that substantially outweigh other types of barrel treatments.
Read more: “The Pros and Cons of Nitride Barrel Finishes”
