The action/barrel finish is just a baked on cheap cera-kote coating, not very durable, and on mine at least in places way way too thickly applied. Thickly enough on the action it almost obscures the lettering. They also coated the bolt itself, this is a no-no as it gums up the action because the coating is soft and thick.
Todd,
I don't have one of these rifles, but curiosity is killing me - did you measure the thickness or can you just visually identify areas where the cerakote is too thick or thin? I don't know who Nosler uses to cerakote their rifles, do they do that in-house or send it out?
Sorry to hear of your bad luck with that rifle - I would have thought that if Nosler provided a guarantee, you could have shipped the rifle back to them and they would have resolved the problem. What did they say when you contacted them?
Thanks for your input.
