6" barrel in stock slide

[ShootNMove]

Has anyone done this? How did it turn out? I am tempted to get comp'd but I really dislike the blast in my face. I always shoot at least a few rounds out of a gun w/ no hearing protection to see what it'd be like in a real situation (I know, not the best thing in the world), and my friends G31C damn near popped my ear drums. So I think I'll stay away from the comp. Plus, I can eventually use that barrel for my G20L!!!

[J.D. Locke]

Glock makes a stock 6" barel for the G20,which I have,zero problems shooting my 6" thru the stock pistol.

[Glockadict]

I love mine to death. Not to disagree with J.D, but I would go with an aftermarket barrel(Jarvis, KKM, etc..). I have a KKM in my G20. If you plan on reloading, or shooting super hot loads, a supported barrel is the way to go. The 6" KKM barrel is about $30 or $40 more than the Glock 6".

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/fellony/G20.jpg

[ppro]

Just ordered a Storm Lake 10MM for my Glock 20, Broach Cut 6" barrel....$135.00 including shipping.

Broach cut, NOT button rifled.

Just thought to let you know. Ordered directly from Storm Lake Machine.

Paul

[uz2bUSMC]

ppro,

What's the difference with the broach cut?

[ppro]

Primarily, the broach cut method allows easy adjustment of the land to groove height relationship and land width, while maintaining a very high degree of uniformity.

You can do a ton of study on this but in general, pistol barrels benefit from the ability of cut rifled barrels to be adjusted to "best depth" for handling high velocity and also their ability to be made to facilitate the use of lead bullets at nominally higher velocity, while still accomodating jacketed bullets VERY VERY well.

Button rifled barrels are generally made with a shorter narrower land than a cut rifled barrel and the exact configuration of the cut rifled barrel for the use intended, is very easy to adjust....by comparison.

Button rifled barrels literally press the land configuration into the barrel and as such, you generally find a lighter (if you will) land of shorter configuration.

This is just a bit of the difference summarized to some extent and hopefully usefully descript enough to give you some idea as to why you might consider the cut rifled barrel, for the 10MM Glock barrel application.

There are a ton of other considerations, but this gives you some idea.

Bar-Sto barrels also reflect this difference in their cut rifled Glock barrel....quote: "Bar Sto barrels come with fully supported chambers and are broach cut rifled to accept lead bullets. Accuracy of 1.250 or better at 25yrds is obtainable with good ammo"

Such is the general difference in the handgun pistol barrel,
between the two types of production processes, from the usery point of view.

regards

Paul

hope this helps a bit........this is not a finite description but hopefully one which is materially usefull in understanding the general difference.

[uz2bUSMC]

ppro,

Helps a bunch, thanx bro.

[10mm4ever]

Won't a 6 inch increase slide velocity?I would think that it would by 20-25%.

[ppro]

10MM4ever

I don't actually know if it would appreciably or not. It could well change the way it recoils, but that the slide velocity will actually increase per say....hhhhmmmmmm

Someone else will have to jump on this. I am assuming your talking about a unported barrel for the most part.

regards

Paul

[10mm4ever]

I was referring to unported,yes.