does porting help short barrel guns

[Rocket3]

FWIW - My agency does not allow us to carry ported firearms. The danger of injury when shooting with the weapon close in to your body trumped all other considerations. YMMV

Totally agree.
I would never carry a ported firearm for self defense! Great for heavy hunting/target handguns away from your person. I've owned several. I would not want that blast close to my body.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

.... love the gun you're with.....

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Smith, and Wesson?

Loved that song.

 

[dwever]

A lot of myth in this thread. In a 3" barrel (586 L-Comp), you don't get the recoil management benefit until you're in to some pretty hot loading, and you certainly don't get the blinding fire with normal +P and milder .357 Magnum self defense loading.

I am qualified with my agency with the 586 L-Comp, and in low-light the tritium and my eyes work fine and are not compromised by alleged fired balls with self defense loads < 400 ft. Lbs. of energy.

 

[S.B.]

Certainly will raise the amount of dbs you get from them.
Steve