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Originally Posted by JohnKSa
It's been a long time--was the barrel length exclusively about accuracy or was it a combined accuracy and muzzle velocity consideration?
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my guess is there is also a stiffness vs weight consideration. you make a barrel longer, to maintain the same stiffness the barrels diameter has to increase. I know some competitions guns have weight limits, but also there is just practical weight limits to the gun being too big and heavy to be practical.
I remember a shot show video from a few years back at the barrett firearms. They had some special version of the semi auto 50cal for the military, had a shorter barrel. Said it was actually more accurate because it was stiffer due to being shorter.
I think the TC Contenders answer the question fairly well, makes sense. Was an interesting question, and seemed to line up at a quick glance, but after a little looking I think I'm chalking it up to fudlore.