Yup. Don't shoot it. LOL.

But seriously, if you're really anal about it, shoot duster.

And if if you can reinvest in a new barrel, the new fixed barrels increase slide life infinitely.

Even if you smash up the lugs on the slide, the new fixed barrels will work with the busted slide.

or shoot hybrid slide, and it'll have enough impact area to stop a truck....

well not quite, but enough for propane fueled GBB...

LOL - ok, point taken. What I should have said was "so I don't frag things too quickly . . ." :)


Ahhhh. [*mental lightbulb goes one*] The new-style barrels are fixed? Are they anything like the set-up on the Xtreme? I noticed that the Xtreme has a collar in front of the inner chamber that prevents the outer barrel from riding back. I wasn’t sure how that worked, until I realized that the outer barrel/chamber assembly also has a slightly shorter “leg”; the chamber doesn’t sit as high in the slide, and thus doesn’t need to drop backwards to disengage with the slide lugs. It wasn’t ever really engaged with them in the first place. Makes sense, I guess – chamber never goes rearward, it doesn’t really have to be slammed forwards. Do the new style barrels have a similar collar like the Xtreme, or just achieve this via the shape of the chamber leg and cutout?

-Tuthmose

They were based on the Xtreme barrel design. The chamber cover is lowered, and extra material is added in place of the plastic collar to prevent the outer barrel from moving relative to the inner barrel.

Thank you, ILLusion - I appreciate your sharing your knowledge!

-Tuthmose