I have searched without any luck for the amount of torque that should be applied when tightening the barrel nut on this firearm...would anyone here know?
I want to know this information also so I'm bumping this again. I replaced the nut with a suppressor adapter and the folks making the adapter didn't know the specs for the screw torque either.
From a discussion on RFC some time ago I recorded in my files that the correct torque for this series is 15 inch pounds. You can do a search in the S&W forum for "Torque" and see the discussion.