Ok, I have a guy that says "Trigger bar deforms the barrel. That's the only negative thing I've found when I was considering buying one." on his PPS barrel and offered the following picture as evidence. Weirdest thing I've seen.
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That image looks similar to Gordo's:
https://www.waltherforums.com/forum...ps-m2-barrel-peened-near-feed-ramp-pps-m2.jpg
As chandler5566 posted this same link to Gordo's thread. The picture is from Gordo - post number 1 from that thread.
https://www.waltherforums.com/forum/pps/70650-pps-m2-barrel-peened-near-feed-ramp.html
Mine has that tiny nick in the corner and I’ve had it well over two years with hundreds of rounds fired. No spreading or issues here. If it ever becomes an issue I’ll address it. I don’t see anything to get excited about unless yours actually has an issue. I definitely won’t lose any sleep over a gun.Out of curiosity, I looked at my M2, it had just a tiny bit of bluing off. Nothing to get excited about. No damage to metal.
I believe that in the mega-thread that was over 60 pages long, only Gordo received a new PPS M2 pistol, and SaltyNC got a new barrel and trigger bar assembly if I remember correctly. That thread was several months long and only two people reported severe peening issues to the point of needing replacement. So the issue is real, but it seems very small percentage-wise. Unless someone else has some hard statistics proving that the issue is widespread and severe in all of those cases. I don't believe that ever was concluded.