Nope the barrel isn't ported, just the choke is.... and I've had a few gas guns, built up a couple extremely nice ones, an 1100 and a 11-87, but didn't really care for shooting them.......really miss the 1100 though, probably shouldn't have gotten rid of it, but I'll sure be glad to send my shorty down the road, it's a 49-54 savage stevens pump with an 18" barrel, even with the light stuff it's got some kick to it.......I've only fired 2 shells out of it and that was plenty..... it does look cool though!