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Old 12-10-2015 | 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by edmehlig
I have black ice on my White ML and love it. Does it wear off? Well I noticed two areas where it has. One place is the inside edge of the of the mouth of the bore. The second is in the breach area where the #11 or Musket caps sits on the breech plug. I guess the heat/flame of where the bullet comes out and the spark of the caps will burn it off. Other then that it is very durable. In a simple version on how I clean my rifles. I just wipe it down, clean and oil the bore and I'm good. I don't have to worry about the exterior of the rifle that has been blacked iced.

Ed
That should prove that Nitride is tougher than Black Ice. Nitride is also on the inside of the bore, and tested with thousands of shots. It didn't wear off in the tests.
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