Mine is the Handi. It seems short because there is no action between the barrel and the stock. You can add the longer barrel to the handi and a lot of people do that don't like the stock on the BC. If you hand load they say not to surpass the loads listed for the Marlin and Winchester lever guns. There is no need on this earth to load it any hotter as a fellow in Africa shot through two Cape Buffalo with the Marlin Lever gun with the same loads that you can shoot in the Handi Rifle. That would seem to be about as stout a load as one would ever need. He killed both buffalo as the bullet passed through the first buff and clear through the second one as well. A friend of mine killed two American bison with one shot with his Marlin as well. He told the guide that there was a cow behind the bull he was about to shoot at but the guide told him to shoot anyway not believing that it would shoot through the bull. WRONG!!!