10at6, I have a Hobaugh barrel on a Sharps Borchardt, 30" half octagon, 45-120-550, made circa 1965, fitted by Luft Brothers of Spokane, all work done on recommendation of Elmer Keith, block bushed and barrel is for heavy nitro loads. For forty years it has sat unfired in my gun rack.
Another anecdote, I collect classic Krag sporters, and about five years ago Jerry Fisher agreed to build one for me. We wanted to locate a prewar or early postwar .30 barrel, I advertised, haunted the gun shows, wrote a lot of letters, emails, made phone calls, no luck, settled on a modern Krieger. Rifle is a beaut. Then just last year a Buhmiller .30 blank showed up at Amoskeag auction, I bought it, but too late for the Fisher Krag. Have to think of something else.
