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When I was heavy into Cowboy Mounted Action Shooting, which uses .45 caliber black powder blank cartridges in single-action revolvers to bust balloons from horseback, I had a Colt Single Action Army hard-chromed by Ford's. All of the firearms (revolvers, shotguns, and rifles) take a lot of abuse from the black powder, especially the pistols as they are used the most. I found the hard chrome (I specified bright chrome) made cleaning the revolver much easier, and you could even wait awhile before cleaning without having to worry about corrosion. I never had any yellowing or chipping of the finish, even in the bore and chambers. If hard chrome will withstand the abuse of high-pressure 5.56 ammunition in the chambers and bore of automatic weapons, it should work for you.
That's funny, they currently have a P226 of mine now, it's getting their Cera-Hide finish. I didn't know they did hard chrome though. I'm going to take a look.
I had a couple guns hard chromed, and a couple more with hard chromed frames. Hard chrome is the toughest, hardest, easiest to clean finish I have yet used. One gun I had hard chromed over 40 years ago is still in the family, and still looks about the same a it did back then. More recently, factory barrels in a couple of my guns have that DLC finish. I have little experience with it, but that too is obviously very hard, and shows practically no detectible wear after hundreds of rounds...
Free Tacos I owe you an Apology. I got confused and told you wrong about CCR doing hard Chrome. The pistol I was refering to that they had refinished for me was in Nickel not Chrome. Again I apologize for my error.
I have a Wilson 130 Master Grade that I bought in 1983 that is matte or satin hard chrome. I shot IPSC and then IDPA with it. It was "refurbed" (slide tightened, bushing replaced, etc. NO finish work needed) once about '95 and I still shoot it on occasion. With a new set of grip panels it looks ALMOST as good as it did new. Nothing I have ever had outlasted or outperformed hard chrome when done right.
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