Originally Posted by
sabinajiles
Since CVA sells a nitride BH 209 breech plug, I incorrectly assumed the black stock breech plug that came with the nitride rifles was also nitride treated. My bad. Have you ever tried to machine a nitride breech plug? I am curious about how much harder they actually are?
CVA doesn't sell a Nitride breech plug. It's just coated black.
They don't put the Nitride on the breech plug, because the threads would be too hard for the threads in the barrel. That's what they told me.