Model 27 question

[cford716]

Based on this pic, best guess, what barrel length would you say it is? 27-2 with a 5" or 6" barrel?

Thanks

 

[Dick Nissen]

Looks like a 5". Barrel length is measured from the face of the cylinder to the end of the barrel.

 

[lestert357]

I would say it’s a 6” barrel. I believe the gun is slightly angled in the picture giving the barrel a somewhat shorter appearance. Also the ejector housing looks to be about half the length of the visible barrel; on a 5” barrel the ejector housing is well over half the length of the visible barrel.

 

[Abbynormal]

5 incher. Barrel lugs are parallel to front sight ramp.
6"'s have a 1" gap between the parallel and so on and so forth.

 

[regularoldtom]

I have a six inch barrel and it has partridge sight.most five inch have ramp front sights

 

[22hipower]

Did five inch 27-2s come with Patridge front sights? I have several and all have ramp front sights. My six and 6.5 inch 27s (and 8 3/8) have Patridge. I guess put me in the six inch camp for now.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[D1911]

It's a 6".

 

[Art Doc]

A 5" 27-2. Compare. I have never seen a 5" 27 with a Patridge sight.

 

[colt_saa]

No doubts, that is a 6" Model 27

 

[Art Doc]

It looks 6" to me. Photo is a little out of whack.

 

[lamarw]

Put me down for $5.00 on believing it is six inches.

 

[cford716]

Here is a better pic of the barrel and front sight. Seller insists its a 5" but as was posted here the front sight seems wrong and also the ramped section below the sight on a 5" appears to go all the way back above the stamped "Smith and Wesson" on the barrel. This one does not.

 

[Cjpetracca]

Just to add to what has been said above; a 3 1/2” barrel goes just past the shroud and it looks to me that there are another 2 1/2” past that. It is a 6”.

 

[rbmac52]

Come on, that is clearly a six-inch. And you don't need a tape measure to know that!

 

[PALADIN85020]

Here are my 5-inch and 6-inch 27s for comparison. The 6" dates from 1979.

John

 

[AManWearingAHat]

That'd be a 5" by my eye, but the picture is a little skewed. Optics do funny things

 

[CH4]

Most definitely a 6”

 

[Grayfox]

Very likely the seller is making the common mistake of measuring from the frame rather than the face of the cylinder.
I have no doubt that that is a 6".

 

[nate-dogg]

What Grayfox said above

 

[JP@AK]

One more pic of a 5" Model 27-2.