Kute, as a Manhattanite I certainly don't have a dog in the Canadian gunsmith discussion [except that (1) there are still some Elwood Epps High Wall varmint rifles in upstate New York, and well thought of they are too, (2) I have a Savage 99C with an Epps barrel in .257 Roberts] but I noted your remarks on swamped barrels. I am familiar with them on Jaeger FL rifles but you seem to say they are used on modern contemporary custom breechloaders. I own a fair number of 20th C customs and have looked probably at thousands at big and small gun shows and I don't recall seeing a barrel that tapered and then got thick again towards the muzzle, whether round or octagon. Something like gunbroker 33701283 has a fat muzzle but I wouldn't call it swamped.
