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Lloyd Smale · March 11, 2012, 07:15 AM

Ive got a winchester 86 carbine. It has a 22 inch barrel. Carbine is a word that is used very loosely just to describe a gun with a bit shorter barrel then the standard rifle barrel fo that model. It has nothing to do with having a barrel under 20 inch. Even look back to the original carbines. the old trapdoor calvery guns and youll see they too had barrels longer then 20 inch. It seems that when winchester came out with the 94 carbines that about then everyone figured a barrel 20 inch or shorter became a carbine. Id bet if you looked it up in the dictionary it wouldnt say a thing about shorter then 20 inch.

March 11, 2012, 07:15 AM	#12
Lloyd Smale Junior member Join Date: February 11, 2005 Posts: 822	Ive got a winchester 86 carbine. It has a 22 inch barrel. Carbine is a word that is used very loosely just to describe a gun with a bit shorter barrel then the standard rifle barrel fo that model. It has nothing to do with having a barrel under 20 inch. Even look back to the original carbines. the old trapdoor calvery guns and youll see they too had barrels longer then 20 inch. It seems that when winchester came out with the 94 carbines that about then everyone figured a barrel 20 inch or shorter became a carbine. Id bet if you looked it up in the dictionary it wouldnt say a thing about shorter then 20 inch.