Looking for people with firsthand experience with pistol comps and/or ported barrels. I've gotten bored with the plain Jane irons and black barrels so I started branching out. I just shot my M&P 9mm performance center with a ported barrel yesterday for the first time and I was both surprised and disappointed. Surprised in that it wouldn't cycle my lighter loads that my Glock 34 digested well the same day and disappointed that I couldn't really feel any less recoil compared to same. My Glock 22c definitely benefits from it's ported barrel so I thought a ported 9 would be like a dream. It just shoots like a 9. I'm also assuming it failed to cycle light loads because the porting bled off enough pressure to prevent that.
Compensators are something I've never tried, though by looking at them, it seems like they theoretically do the same thing porting does without the velocity loss. Please share your experiences
Compensators are something I've never tried, though by looking at them, it seems like they theoretically do the same thing porting does without the velocity loss. Please share your experiences