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fastbolt: thank you for the great information and also for staying civil in the face of hostility. :)

very interesting and enlightening. thanks to all for your responses and information.

thanks for educating me on that. i appreciate the knowledge. yes, i do have the MIM barrel. do you have the MIM barrel as well? have people had issues with that? is s&w still making the machined barrels (i.e. are they making both machined and MIM barrels still)? i'm sure there are varying...

pardon my ignorance, but i don't know what MIM stands for. also, how can i tell which one i have? again, sorry for the ignorance on that topic. as an update, i spoke with s&w customer service this morning and the rep had no idea what i was talking about so he suggested that i send pictures and...

thank you for posting those pictures. your frame rails look exactly like mine! i'm not talking about the wear marks, but the difference in finish. it is most obvious in your last picture (the one of the back of your gun assembled) the frame rails are a different color than the slide. i guess...

thanks for your response. that is so strange. my guess is that they started applying the melanite finish to the rails more recently and the one i got just happens to be one that was sitting at a wholesaler for a while before being shipped to this store. i'll probably just call s&w tomorrow to...

hello all! i'm new to this forum. i've owned an m&p 9c for a few years and just purchased a bodyguard 380 yesterday. someone else (who purchased one from the same dealer at the same time as me-they had two left) and i were comparing the two guns. i noticed that the frame rails on my gun do not...