Thanks S&W Rover.
Every once in awhile facts need to rule over emotion and hearsay. MIM has come a long, long way since folks like Dornaus & Dixon pioneered it in firearms in the early 1980's and the big "K" raped it's reputation in the early 2000's. The realization that MIM major components are used in applications in the aviation and automotive industries cast a different light on this "life and death" firearms conversation or at least it should.
Anyway, Smith & Wesson uses very high quality MIM components in a few appropriate applications. Applications that MIM is NOT appropriate for are things which flex such as springs and internal 1911 extractors.
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Currently S&W is paying about $1.20/Lb for stainless steel bar stock. Raw MIM stainless steel inject able material costs $10.00/Lb.
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It always makes me chuckle when some "expert" expounds on this and other forums that he doesn't want any of those "cheap pot metal MIM parts" in his self defense guns.
Bruce