Good luck on getting a barrel from Ernie, I have had a 45 caliber octagon blank on order for three years and the last time I was able to talk to him about the order was two years ago at the SHOT SHOW. Hopefully someone has one in inventory that will fill your needs.

SSS

There are some rumors out there about what may or may not have happened with Badger Barrels.  Ernie and Jeri have been trying to retire and they sold the company several years ago and then I heard that they got the company back because of poor management (rumor or not??)  Last year the company was purchased by Wilson Arms and according to their website, they now own Badger Barrels.  We may have seen the last of the BPCR Barrels produced by Badger.  Good luck in finding one in remaining stock.
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By the way, Track of the Wolf sent me a flyer that Green Mountain is no longer making BPCR barrels either.  Probably a sign that us old farts aren't building as many rifles as we used to.  Bob

Green Mountain had shut down last fall to rebuild a larger faciliity to make the black powder barrels, move machinery, etc. They are back in production. They did NOT quit making the barrels we use. I've used quite a few Green Mountain barrels and have never had one that did not shoot very well.

Krieger barrels are very good. I used one and it was the straightest barrel I've ever used. It shot very well also. Douglas barrels are good also and available. You have choices.

Thanks all, I sent Ernie a e-mail, no luck yet!
How well do the Kriegers work with black powder loads?

Hard to imagine Green Mt out of Black Powder Barrel Business, it's most of what they do.  Go for GM or Douglas be shooting instead of waiting for phone calls or emails to be returned.

Douglas has probably won more matches than any other Cast bullet barrel.

Boats

boats wrote on Jul 7^th, 2013 at 5:48pm:

Am wondering why you think this?
Per the equipment list at the latest Shippensburg 'supershoot', there were 6-Badger, 4-Miroku, 2-GM, 2-RKS, 2-Shiloh, 1-Douglas, 1-Snover, 1-Kreiger and a whole bunch who don't know what they are shooting.

There were 12x 40-65s, 2x 38-55s, 1x 38-56, 2x 40-70, 1x 45-90 (the match winner 53/60), 1x 40-50, 7x 45-70 and 1x 40-82. Again, a couple who do not know what they are shooting.

Douglas because they have been making them longer, button rifled, nice and smooth for cast bullets and many custom rifle builders spec Douglas due availability.

No doubt BPC match like Shippensburg has a lot of others makes, factory spec on the rifles shooters used probably accounted for half of them. Few on the Internet talk about Douglas lot of guys shoot them. Back in my CBA days it was the only barrel to have. Probably 75 % of CPA's carry Douglas barrels.

Makes no sense to me look for something you can't get from somebody that's in and out of business when you could be shooting. If it's not right who are you going to send it to ? old owner new owner or newest owner. Douglas or Green Mt answer the phone and ship barrels

Boats