All due respect, you are talking out the side of your mouth.
If you want to sell nitriding, fine, but knock off the false advertising.
Ok ok guys, everyone calm down.....Noel, Bobby is not trying to sell nitriding..You need to use logic and common sense here....Lawton has absolutly nothing to gain by encouraging nitriding...
I will lay it out really simple here.....If a gun maker, or barrel maker were to only think of profit, why would they encourage a process that extends the life of a barrel???
This is crazy? If I was a gun maker and I was only interested in profit and didn't give a rip about customers, I would NOT talk about a process that extends barrel life. User common sense here!!!!! I would let the custmers burn up their barrels,,,,
Rebarreling is new business man!!
The idea that Lawton Machine suggests this process, tells me that they care more about customer service and long term relationships than they do about short term bottom lines by replacing barrels everytime someone shoots 700 rounds.
I can tell you pleanty about customer service. In my prior life I built an 80 million dollar business unit for my company. I was successful because I focused more on my customers needs than I did on the Corp bottom line.
And I wil guarantee you that when you do this, your customer's will see this and it will come back ten fold.
Lawton machine, is one of those companies that seems to put these concepts in practice. There are enough guys on this forum that will agree with me 100% about Lawton. So be careful when you throw stones at someone that seems to be putting the customer first, it can come back to bite you!
And if your argument is simply this...."
well they must have something up their sleave or there must be another motive why they are suggesting nitriding"
If this is your argument, then your argument has no basis or foundation.
Perhaps I am missing something here....Perhaps you have done your own tests on one barrel that had the nitriding done and the other that did not. Perhaps you could post your findings so we could all see the facts rather than some hunch or guess!!
Here are some facts....Lawton machine has several customers that swear by this process. And they swear it has extended the life of their barrels. Until now, they only have customer testomonials. But soon we will have more data from Lawton that will be more than just some guys word about how it doubled the life of his barrel.
I have nothing to gain and Lawton has nothing to gain by encouraging others to consider nitriding. Actually Im wrong,,I do have something to gain...If Nitriding proves itself, I have something to gain.
I won't have to take the time to rebarrel as often. So it's potentially a money saver for me...Imagine that!
zman