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Been doing some thinking on this revolver.

Its a Taurus 9 shot 22LR revolver with a prohib barrel.

I can’t find a model number anywhere. I assume its a 94 but don’t know for sure.

I was also contemplating to see how feasible it would be to change the barrel for a longer one.

Are barrels available somewhere and also, since many Taurus’ are based on S&W designs, could I use a S&W barrel and if so, from what model of S&W?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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With all due respect, unless you have a sentimental bond with this revolver, by the way very nice, it will cost you more to modify it than buying another one.
 
Take the grips off, look on the grip frame. Nothing on the crane?
there should be a number on it. I had one apart years ago, never check the thread.
I would just sell it or shoot it.
a model 17, or 18 barrel May be close, Good luck with that finding one.
If it was 38, than I have a barrel, model 10 type, or 686 357m
 
DanRR said:
With all due respect, unless you have a sentimental bond with this revolver, by the way very nice, it will cost you more to modify it than buying another one.
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Thats why I'm asking on what is possible as i don't know. To sell it I would get virtually nothing being a prohib. If I get a longer barrel at least my boy can own it and it may be worth something.
 
Teach your boy to shoot it! For the investment, he can learn and make all his mistakes on it.

I had a similar revolver made by Llama. Got me hooked on S&W DA revolvers! Your revolver is likely better than the Llama.
 
Marshall

To answer your question, nothing under the grips. There is a 4 digit number (i will have to dig it our, but it doesn’t seem to correspond to either a serial number nor the model numbers for these pistols that i have seen).
 
Pacemaker66 said:
I'm not in Canada, why is that barrel prohibited? Is it an assault barrel?:confused:
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For over two decades now in Canada any handgun pistol or revolver barrel at or less than 4 inches we cannot import or own one even with RPAL. RPAL is our license to own handguns or restricted long guns.As well are non restricted long guns.

Past owners (ever shrinking number) grandfathered into it since 1996 or thereabouts.
Ridiculous law.
 
Brutus said:
For over two decades now in Canada any handgun pistol or revolver barrel at or less than 4 inches we cannot import or own one even with RPAL. RPAL is our license to own handguns or restricted long guns.As well are non restricted long guns.

Past owners (ever shrinking number) grandfathered into it since 1996 or thereabouts.
Ridiculous law.
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That's beyond ridiculous. What's the rationale for that? Does it fire faster than a 6" barrel, can you reload it faster?
Oh wait, a 4" revolver can take a 30 round cylinder! That must be it.
 
Pacemaker66 said:
That's beyond ridiculous. What's the rationale for that? Does it fire faster than a 6" barrel, can you reload it faster?
Oh wait, a 4" revolver can take a 30 round cylinder! That must be it.
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My friend. Perhaps only Jaysus knows what creeps around the dim dark corners of the liberal mindset.

And believe it or not there's much too many of them right on this gun forum that still vote them into office.

Threads such as this get them exposed because they tend to rather quickly foam at the mouth much like a rabid dog in need of a put down.

You just watch friend.
 
Just to add to the insanity, The "reason" was to get small " Sat. nite pistols" away from the gang bangers, and such scumbags.
That is the B.S. they tried to feed us. Cica 1998 .
This 4 inch, .32, .25 cal also trapped most of the WW1and WW11 Lugers, Nazi PP,PPK's etc.
Turns out that a couple Liberal big shots had Luger collections that would go down the ####ter, So they came up with a new class 12.7 , prohited handguns, pre 1946 manufacture.
And don't get me started on 12-2 Full auto, 12-3 full auto made into semi auto, 12-5 , Some FN FAL's, AK's ( can be 12-2 or 12.3) .
That we can live with, The axe fell May 1/ 2020 on AR, 50 cal, canons, AAA , etc. Enjoy you guns down there and remember that when you vote.
Canadian Votes /power is all in 3-4 big cities, where most don't know anything thing about guns, other than what happens on the streets at night by the people I mentioned in the first line.
P.S. , to keep, buy more of the guns covered in the above , you had to own one in 1998, and always keep one registered to you, you can go out and buy more, as long as you did not sell your last one in that class 12-6 for small H.G. , 12-2 Full Auto, etc. Than you have Mag limits as well.
Clear as mud now?
 
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Pacemaker66 said:
That's beyond ridiculous. What's the rationale for that? Does it fire faster than a 6" barrel, can you reload it faster?
Oh wait, a 4" revolver can take a 30 round cylinder! That must be it.
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It was the easiest way, at the time, to make it easy for the gun grabbers to set up confiscation of the majority of handguns in Canada at the time, when the bill that became our Firearms Act, came into affect. It's all political and based on distraught fantasy. Does that require more explanation????
 
OP, take a look at the Numrich, Gun Parts site and see if they have a restricted length barrel for you revolver. Most smiths in Canada have a tough time with the threads on those lovely little revolvers because the threads are metric and they aren't familiar enough with their lathes to cut them properly. Not only that, some of them have back gear type lathes and have lost the set of metric gears to do the job.

If Numrich has a replacement bbl, you will need a broker, such as the banner member, I RUN GUNS to bring it in for you from the US, unless you want to go through a lot of hassle and do it yourself. Your other option is to go through a all service provider, such as Bits of Pieces, out of Delta BC. They will import the bbl, or make up a plain jane replacement and get it back to you. Won't be cheap.

By the time it's all finished, the project should come in at around 65% of replacing the firearm with a new one. I do my own work and have done several. It's not difficult if you have a lathe, some basic math skills and a set of feeler gages to measure the cylinder to barrel gap. Any gunsmith that has experience should be able to do one in appx an hour.

NO, I don't do this work for others. Insurance is incredibly expensive and it's not worth my time to do enough work just to pay for insurance. That would make it a job, instead of a hobby.
 
Just for stz & giggles measure the barrel if you haven't already. Smith was notorious for having 4 and 1/8 inch long barrels on what was suppose to be a 4 inch model. Maybe Taurus might be following suit.
 
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