Thanks Peter & 8borerifle for your engouraging response,

I'll definitely make that call. Somehow I always hesitate to use phone for this kind of issues, because I'm not a native speaker. To my mind a phonecall is much more unforgiving than a face-to-face conversation, where you can use body language etc.

However, I guess I'll survive

I'll keep you posted on this 16-bore.

Regards,
Saku