Min barrel length shotgun

José Alaninho

rrpc wrote: »

I doubt that a red dot sight would be any use for flying target because you have to lead the target and therefore the red dot would not be 'on' anything for acquisition.

Apart from the difficulty of looking through any kind of restricted view sight for fast moving targets.

As I said- never hunted before, just gettin some info. Cheers.

Mellor

rrpc wrote: »

If there are factory produced shotguns on the market with barrel lengths of less than 61cm, then the question is what were they designed for?

There are riot shotguns and military shotguns with barells c.20"

kowloon wrote: »

You can buy standard pump guns with 24" barrels in the states, seem to be common enough.

Maybe 61cm was picked over 24" on purpose as this is a standard length.

61cm was picked because we use metric sizes.
24", converted to metric is 609.6mm. This is less than half a mm from 610mm (the limit). To the nearest mm, 24" is legal.
Bare in mind that the barrel will vary in lenght with temp. Over a few degrees, the lenght will vary a few mm.
Also the fact that barrels might not exactly 24", or the extra section in the chamber.

kowloon

Mellor wrote: »

Are they not an exception through being historic/antiques or similar

They make a special exception just for those, who said the law isn't consistant? :rolleyes: