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Heat Treating Gun Barrels: An Outdoorsman’s Perspective

FEATURED NEWS, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT / June 7, 2017

  Source:  Idaho State Journal

Smokey Merkley has taught orienteering, marksmanship, self-defense, fencing, scuba diving and boxing.  He wrote an outdoors commentary for the Idaho State Journal on the heat treatment process used in the production of gun barrels.

Read more: Which is Better?  Nitriding or Chrome Lining by Smokey Merkley

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