Posted 10/19/2010 10:25 (#1399938 - in reply to #1399904) Subject: Re: Ruger Mark III
West Chazy, New York
A fluted barrel is a bull (heavy) barrel with grooves cut lengthwise in it. The remaining ridges provide some of the rigidity and mass of the bull barrel without all of the weight. They are technologically a good idea, but in my mind they take some getting used to the way they look.