What type of steel is the XD slide made of?

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02-22-2010, 12:03 AM

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All I know is that it is extremely hard. It eats Carbide cutters for Breakfast. At least that's what AGI Master Gunsmith Robert Dunlap says.

That's the Melonite/Tennifer steel TREATMENT applied to the surface of the steel that causes the eating of cutting tools and the hardness also penetrates down into the surface of the steel a bit kinda like case hardening does.

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