To port or not to port??

[BUDMAN-BILL]

Picked up another 3" S&W model 65 a few days ago. I'm wanting to turn it into a custom carry gun. So I'm going to send it to Cylinder and Slide to have a few things done to it. I'm really wanting to magna port it.

If not, please explain why

 

[aeropb]

I say not to port!

 

[J.P.]

Not to port.
That is to say...No ports, as in: Portless, i.e., bereft of porting

 

[mmcbeat]

I do not care for ported guns, especially self defense guns. I have given them a fair chance, a Glock and two S&W revolvers. In a SD gun I want the muzzle blast going forward and away from me, not up.

Ported guns are also very loud. I know, I know, guns are supposed to be loud but a ported 357 mag indoors or under a tin roof is loud and distracting.

Never shoot a ported gun at night but have heard that depending on the gun and round, the upward muzzle blast can ruin your night vision.

 

[patrickcudd]

Don't port anything less than 500 S&W or rifle cal. in a pistol!

That is my $.02 anyhow......

 

[fishn&huntn]

no porting for me. why because i have owned two.although a friend ported his super redhawk after shooting mine but he was old and already deaf.

 

[Shadowrider]

Do not port it. Why? Because they are

LOUD!

And just where is the poll option for "send my new 3" 65 to Shadowrider"?

 

[jbarnett]

I agree with all the "no porting" posters.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Please don't drill on that precious beauty!

 

[Glocktogo]

Ok,

While conventional wisdom would say "no porting", I gotta be the oddball and say port that bad boy! Nothing says sexy like a 3" Magna-Ported K Frame.