I am looking for a winter project to get through the boredom of winter + this covid lockdown crap,
I would like to have a mini 14 barrel nitrided, my questions are.
1. Should I seperate barrel from receiver or is it ok to have the whole thing done at once? (Will the 500deg + that is required for the process hurt the heat treatment of the receiver?)
2. Who does this type of work? Where can I send the barrel (or barreled receiver) to get this done?
Thanks for all your replies in advance!

its 1000 degrees for 20 min BTW.

You are correct if you mean Deg "F",
I should have been more specific by stating  500+ deg "C"

unless a barrel is 1/2 moa or better I would not spend any more money on it, just saying and i think most rugers fall into this category.  



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