Alright...I'm an artist, not an Engineer, but let's see if you can pick up what I'm laying down here. This drawing is not to scale, although it looks pretty close now that I look at it. Drawing never was my strongest suit, but nonetheless:
With the 3 Lug attached we have overall length of 9.00"
From the rear of the 3-Lug adapter, the distance to where the back of the lugs come to rest is 0.33"
The distance (on my barrel) from the back of the lugs to the muzzle is 1.18"
So I arrived at:
9.00" OAL
- 0.33" to back of Lugs inside the adapter
- 1.18" to the muzzle of the BBL
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7.49" but let's call it 7.50"So... the Octane 3-Lug adapter isn't adding any extra OAL in addition to the can. It's perfectly sized to do it's job; kinda goes against what one would expect by looking at it.
Pretty cool! Thanks for asking this question...now I know...