Originally Posted By: Bladesmith
....please explain why adding some carbon to the surface of high carbon steel would hurt anything. Guess I was just lucky, but I've always used kasnite when doing trigger jobs, just to be safe.

If you're starting with a high carbon steel, are you sure that carbon is being added to the surface? It might be that the carbon in the surface of the base steel diffuses towards the least resistance. Maybe, the base steel, if known, would have a specific heat treating protocol. Would that heat treatment necessarily be compatible with how someone might want to treat a case? Only thoughts.

The gun looks nicer than I had thought. Those locks look friendly for peeking inside, one might pick up on galling in spots that really aren't hard enough. I wonder if shooting up a flat at some clays would loosen things up just fine.