[Tuthmose]

Originally Posted by ILLusion

Yup. Don't shoot it. LOL.

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

Originally Posted by ILLusion

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

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