Nickel boron slide M&P???

[Maximumbob54]

Am I hallucinating or did I see a Talo or Lew Horton offering for a nickel boron treated M&P??? I can no longer find reference to this option and just want to know if it's something my brain is making up...

 

[Maximumbob54]

OK,

Now I'm seeing them listed again...

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...57781_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...57781_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y

So, I'm not eating the paint chips again...

And I had to edit the thread title and first post. I had it listed as "boron nitride" and it's "nickel boron"... Ya, moron...

But it seems that you have to click the "M&P Handguns" tab at the top to view all the M&P's to see them. If you click the 9mm or .40SW drop down selections then it doesn't list them.
Never mind...

 

[stmoore]

I just purchased one off of gunbroker. I am excited to get it. I am pretty sure it's just the slide and barrel and not the internals.

I was hopeful it would be like the EXO failzero glocks. We shall see!

 

[mag318]

Cool looking M&P, I wonder if this finish is as good as Robars NP3? At least this one comes this way from the factory. I'll check with my dealer Monday for a price, one on GB is $520.

 

[Rangel]

There have been a couple color/material variations on the M&P slide sold by S&W, including stainless and nickel boron, as described last Feb. 3rd on this thread:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/showthread.php?p=136327454#post136327454

There are also some other interesting after market variations shown on that thread or via links posted there. I wouldn't be surprised if S&W is outsourcing the stainless and even more likely, the nickel boron slides, but at least you should have no warranty quibbles if your gun is modified as such and they've (S&W) endorsed and sold it.

Nickel boron really has some upsides--it's much harder than melonite or tenifer, there's much less friction between moving parts and the need to clean isn't as frequent. I can't help but wonder if something so hard is more susceptible to chipping, but I haven't had any such issues and I've shot a lot of rounds in a short time without babying my gun.

Some like the standard beige, almost golden look, but some companies can do nickel boron in a wide variety of colors--it's increasing popular in camo on AR platforms.

 

[jaykellogg]

Interesting, the Melonite coated slide is made of stainless and is marked "STAINLESS". The nickel Boron slide doesn't appear to be marked stainless.

 

[Goathead75]

Newer ones aren't stamped stainless, but they are.

 

[cometpx4]

Nickel Boron M&P

I picked one up when someone on the forum fiirst pointed them out on the Smith Website. I believe they were a Talo run because one of my local dealers has a great pipeline into the Talo stuff and he got me one in 3 days.
Its a nickel Boron slide and i think barrel, as the barrel is almost a polished silver. The slide is kind of a beige/silver. I also have one of the factory nickel boron Glock 19's that Glock did a run of using the Fail Zero company.

 

[Wyldekard]

I picked one up when someone on the forum fiirst pointed them out on the Smith Website. I believe they were a Talo run because one of my local dealers has a great pipeline into the Talo stuff and he got me one in 3 days.
Its a nickel Boron slide and i think barrel, as the barrel is almost a polished silver. The slide is kind of a beige/silver. I also have one of the factory nickel boron Glock 19's that Glock did a run of using the Fail Zero company.

I just bought one and the barrel is the same as what you describe yours as. I had some FTFs that damaged the chamber face on mine. Now I'm not sure if the barrel is actually NiB coated or if it is even a correctly processed stainless steel. Have you found out if your barrel is actually NiB coated?