Ported guns.

[HouseofCash]

Okay I own 2 ported guns, but, I do not know much about porting. So I need the pros on this one. Any help would be nice.

1)Why are ported guns louder?

2)why does porting make for less recoil?

Sorry if this is just a dumb post, but my dad asked me and I never really thought about it. I really did not know what to tell him.

                          Thanks.
                                 Dave.

[Jamie45]

Porting directs a jet of hot gas up (or at a slight angle from straight up), 90 degrees from the direction it usually travels (downrange).  This gas jet counteracts some of the recoil effect to help hold the muzzle down.  That same hot gas is what makes all the noise.  Now, instead of all of it starting out going downrange, some of it is pointed up, a lot closer to your ears, more so for the folks standing next to you.  That is one reasone why some people really object to ported guns.

And their ain’t no dumb post, we all gotta learn sometime.  Stick with this and 20 years from now you will be answering questions for somebody else.   :-)

[knight0334]

^ Thats it..

My ported Virginian Dragoon 44mag is one barking SA revolver.  I thought my hi-pressure 357 rounds were loud until pulled the trigger on a couple warm 44 rounds.

[Redhawk1]

Jamie45, hit that one on the head. I have only 3 ported guns out of 30. Two of them are 500 MAG's and one is an Encore 18 1/2 inch 444 MArlin barrel. I prefer non ported guns. But in the 500MAG it sure does help.

[willis5]

they are only loud for the first box of shells. then your hearing is so permanently dammaged that you can't hear anything anyway.

WEAR HEARING PROTECTION!!!!

[HouseofCash]

Cool, thanks for the info.

Also, does porting make for more flame? With my Blackhawk in .44 it does not flame much, if at all. Same out of the box rounds in my Desert Eagle in .44 it flames much more. My .50AE flames a ton. I was woundering if this is also because of porting.

I was so hipped the other day when I shot the .500mag I did not remember it flashing. Does it also flash hard like the AE round?

                            Dave.

[Redhawk1]

You will get a lot more flash.  :eek:  :-D

[TScottO]

Porting is cut into the barrel through the rifling and does not have an expansion chamber. Other methods of directing gasses have expansion chambers such as muzzle breaks, compensators and flash suppressors which usually double as a compensator.

A lot of people will call a device with an expansion chamber a port but it really isn’t. Something with an expansion chamber is more of a break as opposed to porting. At least this is my understanding of a more strict definition of porting vs. expansion chambers.

How many people disagree with this?

Be Safe,
Scott

[lisa1lacy2]

hey TScottO I think you are on the money but don't they do the same thing