I have personally had a forged/milled part(parts) fail...I don't condemn the entire process. Well over 20 years ago a few makers were trying to skip the hardening step because all the MIM sales people said it wasn't necessary...and they were wrong. So 25 years ago more than one company had outsourced their MIM (mostly to Israel back then) to companies that lacked the engineering sophistication to fully understand the application; and what do you know, they had a number of failures. Now we're left with all these people who still scream bloody murder about MIM...I think they just jump on a bandwagon to try to make themselves look better gun educated, but its just ignorant at this point. MIM is SO proven.
S&W's factory return rates PLUMENTED when they switched to MIM over the old "superior" forged/milled process...yeah, that sure sounds like an inferior part.
