Hello everyone and peace be with you. I am just now learning about flintlocks and I am getting a lot of education on this nice site. Would someone be so kind, to inform me as to what exactly is a swamped barrel. Thanks for your patients in advance and all info. is well appreciated. I live in Mississippi and hope to get a rifle built one day or Possibly a fowler, for the advantage of small game and deer at short range as well. Are the swamped barrels only on rifles or are they also on fowlers with "wedding bands" on the barrels also? Thanks again for any info and thanks for a great website with so much experience and knowledge that all yall folks share.