Why Through Hardening Matters

[tomr]

Let's not sugar coat stuff, we were actually laughing at you and the tears you cried.

ETA, anyone want to guess the hardness of the area w/ the problem? I'll give you a hint, it's the same as the IQ of the average bromancer/boot licker.

So what is the #4130 magic markered inside the slide?

[Jeep]

This sort of thing makes me wonder if I should just buy a Glock lower and add an aftermarket stainless slide the next time I am in the market for a new 9mm

My question is related. While it is really ugly, with a 9mm do those defects matter? That is, is it likely they will lead to unreliability or a lack of service life?

[Sparks2112]

Let's not sugar coat stuff, we were actually laughing at you and the tears you cried.

ETA, anyone want to guess the hardness of the area w/ the problem? I'll give you a hint, it's the same as the IQ of the average bromancer/boot licker.

What was funny was the look on The Minion's face. "Uhhhhh, did I do that?"

[Wondering Beard]

This sort of thing makes me wonder if I should just buy a Glock lower and add an aftermarket stainless slide the next time I am in the market for a new 9mm

Been wondering exactly the same thing

[tomr]

Been wondering exactly the same thing

Stuff happens. Are you ready for it? We can buy based on low price, tell ourselves its good enough, (indeed, after all, good enough for 60+% of police, USPSA production, IDPA SSP, growing number of militaries), and pay the smallish incremental up charges for sights, trigger jobs, grip mods, stippling and now slides.....

Or reason to think hard about VP9, Sig 320?

[Wondering Beard]

Stuff happens. Are you ready for it? We can buy based on low price, tell ourselves its good enough, (indeed, after all, good enough for 60+% of police, USPSA production, IDPA SSP, growing number of militaries), and pay the smallish incremental up charges for sights, trigger jobs, grip mods, stippling and now slides.....

Or reason to think hard about VP9, Sig 320?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Sure stuff happens, to any gun, but I buy and carry Glocks because they fit me and I can shoot them well, not because they're inexpensive; I don't need to do grip mods, stippling, trigger jobs or even install larger mag releases nor slide stops, all I change are the sights. So for a gun that I like to shoot a lot, wondering about changing to a perhaps more durable slide makes sense to me.

[BLR]