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Originally Posted by Broadside
Bullseye,
Are you sure you do not have this backwards?
My understanding was that MIM was only surfaced hardened after being sintered while a forged part is made out of bar stock which is consistent all the way through.
I am by no means a metallurgist or an engineer.
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The forged are case harden, the mim is heated in the mold, it get treated all the way inside and out. the forged is the one you can't stone but a very little. Look at my thread "match Gun" the hammer in that gun is MIM and just as shinny as the rest of the gun. It was a pain to cut.