“Try it at night”
Actually, you are both right. It doesn’t depend on the gun as much as it depends on the ammo. Ammo with flash suppressant powder doesn’t have much flash, even from a short barreled .357.
I’ve shot Corbon .357 at night, all you get is a dull orange ball about the size of a grapefruit.
If the ammo does not have flash suppressant powder, however, a .357 at night can blind you like a flashbulb!
Compensators direct more of the flash upward, rather than out, so an intensely flashing round with blind you more than with a non-compensated barrel.
If the powder is flash suppressed, however, it won’t make a lot of difference.
Exactly! And even tight revolvers can put a good flash out the gap between the forcing cone and cylinder, but that and the compensated blast is small compared to what comes out the front. You can sometimes find out which loads are going to be low flash by checking comments on line, but if you’re serious about it you need to test them in your gun in low light to make sure they’ll work for you.
Is the Corbon you’re talking about the stuff they recommend for snubbies?