Experience w/ lone wolf ported barrels?

[walter]

Just wondering if anyone uses the extended 2 port. What's up with reliability and does it get really dirty like the C models? I'm talking about the longer barrel with ports outside the slide though. I want to use it on my 19 for the range but if it gets my site and slide as dirty as my C model I might pass

[bohoki]

honestly i do not see any benefit of the ported barrel

i only have one because it was used and cheap and i wanted a barrel to shoot my cast lead with less worry

[Oceanbob]

honestly i do not see any benefit of the ported barrel

i only have one because it was used and cheap and i wanted a barrel to shoot my cast lead with less worry

THIS..^^^^

Especially in the weak calibers like 9MM. Shooting an extended ported barrel along side a normal barrel isn't any difference in felt recoil or muzzle climb.

What it does do is look SNARKY.

I was shopping for a lonewolf 10MM barrel (normal length) for one of my GLOCK 29s. I just wanted a normal stainless barrel to shoot my lead reloads in. Lonewolf was OUT OF STOCK..but they did have an extended ported barrel available.....I decided to just get that barrel and Cut the end off to make it a normal length barrel again.

After it arrived and I did my normal polishing job on it, I installed it and took it too the range to shoot along side my other unported barrel on my 2nd GLOCK 29. No difference at all. But the extended model did look SNARKY.

haha

I still haven't taken the time to cut the barrel back.

Be well, Bob

[al8550]

I have one in my G20 didn't really see too much improvement and cleaning wasn't too bad either.

[bohoki]

oh also shooting lead after the end of the day lead is caked on the front of both grooves so much i almost want to use an exacto and scrape it back in my pot

[stockranger]

I never had a ported barrel but I have a LW 10mm-40sw conversion and it is dead reliable, never a single malfunction. It is also VERY accurate with 40 sw 180 grain lead conical loads which are about as cheap as you can find. I literaly put 50 rounds in one hole the size of a 50 cent piece at 15 yards, and I am not a very experienced pistolero.