I've talked to him before, going to try to call today. I'm finishing up a Southern Flinter right now with one of their Southern Classic barrels in .50. It feels like it's going to be a very sweet handling gun.

I'm finally getting to the point where I can do a bit of traveling to hunt. I normally hunt with flintlocks and would really rather use flintlocks, but I know I'm far more likely to be able to source a sub powder and caps in Godknowswhereistan than real black powder. So The next two builds for me will be an English Sporter and a 12Bore Double (Perhaps in the Germanic style) specifically for travel use.

I had planned on getting the 12 bore barrels from Oregon Barrel Company, but would rather use Rice. Who did your 12 Bore tubes, if you don't mind me asking?

(To be clear, I don't mean to say anything bad about Oregon at all, I hear only good things about them. But I've Used Rice barrels before and really liked them, whereas I have not shot an Oregon. So I'd rather stick with the known quantity)