Originally Posted by
Grizzly
I was getting ready to shoot the 3 handgun Masters back in 1987. A local gunsmith was helping me and he'd already chopped it. This was either before Ruger offered a 7" or about the same time. I did buy a 10" the next year for the one handed precision event and had the barrel slab sided. I'd only asked to have it fluted but was talked into the slab siding which the gunsmith later regretted. It was stainless and I think he went through way more bits and time then he charged me for. For some reason the stainless was much harder to mill then a blue steel barrel. I wound up shooting a Smith and Wesson model 41 that year. What I really wish I'd done was when the chopped ten was offered, I passed on a 5 1/2" barrel with a Witchita Rib on it. I often wished I had that one later when we began shooting alot of bowling pin events at our club. With it, I could put 5 rounds into a quarter as fast as I could shoot it at about 7 yards or so.