Originally Posted by
Bawanna
I see barrel crowning as much more useful and meaningful on a rifle than on a pistol. If your dinging up the crown on a handgun there's some abuse going on that shouldn't be.
It's easy to ding up a rifle crown, trip on a slippery rock while crossing the Nishnabockney river, yard wide and a foot deep or something.
Getting in and out of the Hummer, that sort of thing.
I will admit that it does often times look cool and looking cool is job one with me so even if it don't do nothing but looks cool, it's a keeper.