R'Man;
I would suppose that if the Lefever I mentioned with the two sets of barrels were given your Swing Test that the 26" would show just a bit faster. As the two barrel sets have identical weight though from a practical standpoint there is little noticeable difference in the feel & swing effort in shooting each even though there ios 4" difference in their lengths. Same weights, just a bit more concentrated in the shorter barrels.
2-p, I expect you are, as usual, right. BUT, where that weight is does matter and we could be wrong. However, if you can't tell the difference, we can say with considerable assurance that it doesn't matter.
I can easily agree that barrel length is an aesthetic issue and is a handling issue only in a most general way.
DDA
