I have a 3" heavy barrel, round butt M64 that is the cat's azz. Once I get to the 4" barrel I really like the pencil barrels best. But I can appreciate all of them. A long time ago I was issued a M13 4" heavy barrel that shot really well. The barrel was scratched all to hell, seems the guy that had it ahead of me used the pistol to knock all the glass out of a window to make entry into a burning house to get a kid out of a back bedroom. I know another guy that was transporting a prisoner on a cold winter night along an old county road that the police radios couldn't reach out. This was way before cell phones. The copper got a flat tire out there in the boonies and couldn't find a jack handle for the jack. He unloaded his M13 and stuck the barrel in the jack and got the tire high enough to change his flat out. Put a serious bend in the gun from what I was told.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.