Sorry for the late reply, when I referred to pistols I was talking race guns, mostly in .38 super.

I tried the 10" 5.56 and quickly gave it up, Im just to much of a whimp to deal with that kind of blast on a regular basis. Even go to a 14" tube makes it much more reasonable.

Brian Enos forum had a sticky for a while on tuning a gun and load with springs for best performance and it was an excellent read. He is a huge proponent of smoothing up the cycle of the gun as the #1 means of enhancing control.


Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.

"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper