Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by ironbender
Originally Posted by bluefish
I just don't see how 3-4" of barrel makes a rifle "handier".

This is the important part:

“ make it a bit more handy in the brush”.

It won’t hang up as much.


I've never seen this to be the case in my experience, if the brush was a problem I have always went with a big bore revolver. Now that is much handier


I have seen it make a difference more than once with different length barrels and I am not ever carrying both.


I carried both and it paid off once. While working a moose kill a 7 footer came and my rifle was out if reach, but my 475 Linebaugh revolver was in my shoulder holster. Jimmy shot first and the bear went down and came up like he was spring loaded, I fired and the bear went down and never got up again.

I can seen a difference from a 26" barrel to a 18 or 20. But a 22 to 20 I don't see that being much of a difference




I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first