Sneak peek: New Bond Arms ported barrel

By Eve Flanigan

Your humble author test firing a Bond Arms derringer with a Mag-Na-Port ported barrel. (Photo: Team HB)
Bond Arms is partnering with Mag-Na-Port International to offer the first ported barrels in its derringers, the Texas-based gun maker announced at an exclusive tour attended by Guns.com this month.
During the tour and later on the Defender Outdoors range in Forth Worth, writers got to see, handle and shoot a Mag-Na-Port outfitted derringer. Bond Arms derringers feature changeable barrels of different lengths and finishes. In this case, a .45 Long Colt derringer was fitted with a six-inch polished stainless Mag-Na-Port barrels.
In appearance, the porting doesn’t detract from the handgun. Mag-Na-Port’s process drills two trapezoid-shaped holes in the barrel, placed about half an inch behind the muzzle, at approximately 2- and 10-o’clock from the shooter’s perspective. (Photo: Team HB)
As the owner of chronically pained wrists and as a shooter experienced with the mulish kick of anything with “45” and “Bond” in the same name, I was hesitant to step up to the firing line. As I watched the writer ahead of me at the bench, I realized this barrel ushers in a new era for Bond. There was very little muzzle jump. It appeared to

Source: Guns.com