Originally Posted by Hammer1
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What does porting shotgun barrels do to patterns ?


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Not much in my experience. Porting is one of those fads shotgunners fell into and it is the "cool" thing to have ported barrels on your sporting clays gun, ect. If ya really want to be cool on the shooting line at a shotgunner event have a long barreled (think 34") O/U with ported barrels and the longest ported chokes screwed in you can lay hands on. But if you can't smash clays with such a rig... then you have no excuses! My opinion is that ports in a barrel really don't have much practical function, are noisy, and make cleaning more of a chore.

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