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Just my opinion, but if you want to see something, take a sheet of cardboard and hold it a foot or 2 over the ports on a compensated handgun when it is fired. I don't want that happening to my face.
Funny you mentioned this. I did exactly that last night at the range, except that, instead of using cardboard, I used a regular sheet of 8.5" X 11" paper. I benchrested the 100 with my right hand and held the sheet of paper perhaps 12" above the ports with my left. I was expecting to see a couple of diverging, teardrop-shaped scorch marks on the paper.
Boy, was I wrong.
When the 100 discharged, the jets from the ports literally disintegrated the front half of the sheet of paper. Confetti-sized shreds of paper were floating down all around me, and paper dust was actually drifting downrange with the air circulation. Surprisingly, though, there were
no scorch marks on the remaining half of the sheet of paper still in my hand. The one other user who was in the range at the time probably saw the cloud of white dust after the discharge, but did not say anything.
If anything, this little "experiment" underscores what bullsi1911 said about keeping clear of the compensator ports on any firearm. I'd hate to think what would happen if a body part got in the way of the venting gasses.
DL