Originally posted by iron chef: Do the flutes serve any other purpose than to reduce weight?
I've read on the internet it's to increase the surface area for more rapid cooling, but I never bought into that shit. It's more to make you look tacticool, instead. And, on the barrel in question, it would make you a tacticool pimp.
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Originally posted by iron chef: Thanks, must be fun to clean.
Do the flutes serve any other purpose than to reduce weight?
On a pistol, they do almost nothing. There is a lot of bad information out there on what fluting does.
On a high-powered rifle, the fluting will provide 3 main characteristics. 1, it will make the rifle lighter. 2, the greater surface area and the thinner sections will enhance barrel cooling. 3, it will be more susceptible to stress and uneven heating, reducing accuracy over extended shooting. This makes for a great hunting rifle (carried frequently, fired infrequently) but a poorer precision/tactical rifle.
And none of it means anything for most combat handguns, where the pressures and temperatures aren't even close to being high enough to make a measurable practical difference.
Unless you count the tacticool pimp Instagrammyness of the barrel.
It makes the resale value extra cheap so others can buy them for almost nothing.
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