8" barrel VS 4"barrel

[David Jackson]

Some years ago now I had correspondence with Mr. Mitchell who was president of High Standard at one time. We were corresponding about Victor pistols and if I remember correctly he told me that the 4 1/2 inch barrel guns were more accurate than the 5 1/2" barrel guns. He told me that even the lowly .22 bullet would bulge the barrel as it travelled down it, which phenomenon was revealed by special high speed photography and that the bullet I gues got distorted by that process which affected its flight path.

For those who don't know the Victor pistols have a pretty thick walled barrel, more thickly walled than our Parabellum pistols have; and if there is that distortion with a little .22 how much can larger bullets suffer? Maybe they suffer less because they are bigger; I don't know.

Any thoughts?

That seems a little crazy, but that is what he told me.