Vaquero Barrel Length

[sundance44`s]

I got real confused when I first started collecting the 1858 Remmie , made by the different makers and sellers ..some said theirs were 7 1/2 inch  barrel others printed 8 inch barrel ..when I got them home and put the tape to them ..some were measureing to the start of the forceing cone to end of barrel which measured to 8 inches others omitted the forceing cone and just measured back to where the rifleing started , which measured 7 1/2 inches .

[Dick Dastardly]

Thanks Slim,

That's the one I was diggin' for.   I knew I'd seen it, but the WI DNR web site didn't cough it up.  So, depending on where I'm at, or who is doing the measuring, the barrel length of my wheel guns may or may not include the length of the cylinder.

Anyway, I can safely say this. . . The action of my RVs and ROAs would be "closed".

FWIW, I  found it interesting that a .25ACP would be a legal deer gun here.  Perhaps if I could sneak up on one of 'em in the bed and put it behind their ear and pull the trigger several times real fast. .

Thanks again Slim.  Sounds like an issue we could confuse the hell of a jury with. . .

DD-DLoS

[sundance44`s]

Funny I`ve always heard if you want to piss someone or something off REAL BAD just shoot it with a 25 ACP.

[Adirondack Jack]

DD, state regs can indeed be odd.  The Wisconsin folks were obviously thinking in terms of pistols when they wrote that, but didn't add revolver-specific verbiage. Note tha 5 inch standard GI 1911 is not legal, but a lnog barreled .32 S&W would be.

NY is about as bad. Here ya gotta have centerfire and 4 inches of barrel and it USED TO say no less than .38 caliber, but the hunter clubs got that bit taken out to accomodate the 7mm boomers in TC contenders, etc.  So yeah, the net result is a .25 ACP chambered TC contender would be legal (if about the dumbest thing ya ever heard).

[litl rooster]

Heck DD, Slim... Y'all are allowed to use .22's, most states  I've been in say .30 cal or bigger. 'Cept for the shotgun states