Well further study of page 201 in " Hell, I was There" has a picture of the second mule buck EK took with the 44 Magnum and the caption calls it 6" but if you move to the right column and read it was 6.5" barrel length. This 44 Magnum Has a fairly significant historical provenance as I mentioned in the post above comerade latest post It was indeed a 6.5" barrel. There have been different barrel lengths made for the M29 which is the successor to the "44 Magnum" but from the beginning std barrels were 4" 6.5" and 8 3/8". When SW went from the M29-2 to the M29-3 the engineering changes included deleting the "pinned" barrel to one without, shortened cyl that left the casing rims stick out (non recessed) and the 6.5" barrel went to 6" even. All of these changes were simply to cut production costs.
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
