18" or 20" barrel?

[TimberDoodle]

I'm looking at picking up a rossi r95 for open sight hunting. It looks like they have two barrel lengths available. There is a stainless version (preferred) with an 18" barrel, or a blued steel version with a 20" barrel. Would there be much practical difference in accuracy & performance inside of 200 yards between the two?

 

[HuntHarder]

Potaytoe, pohtahto. Personal preference only..

 

[Matt5266]

Nope pick which one you want more

 

[ProRoad]

I'd go 18" for open sights. I have been studying this quite a bit. This was informative:

 

[MuleyFever]

In theory the 20" could be more accurate with the longer sight alignment, no?

 

[ProRoad]

sure, and a little faster. ahh choices..

 

[shmtastic]

I have several 18" barrels, my most recent order was for a 20". Velocity loss at 18 is real, but you don't go short barrel and expect 24" velocity. I think the balance is a bit better with a 20", I don't shoot suppressed with these rifles, so a little further away from my head is always an added bonus. The concussion on shorter barrels adds up as well for range practice.

 

[eric1115]

I'm looking at picking up a rossi r95 for open sight hunting. It looks like they have two barrel lengths available. There is a stainless version (preferred) with an 18" barrel, or a blued steel version with a 20" barrel. Would there be much practical difference in accuracy & performance inside of 200 yards between the two?

If suppressed 18" for sure, if bare muzzle 20" (by a small margin).

 

[nm.otter]

Not-so-intuitively, reducing barrel length has no real impact on precision.

It does give you increased MV, a longer sight radius (for irons) and (if unsuppressed) reductions to both noise and muzzle blast for the shooter.

 

[JimIsland]

FWIW...I have a R95 with 20" barrel and it's very accurate. I shot 8 different 30-30 factory offerings and the Federal Hammerdown 150 gr shoots lights out. I'm glad I went 20".