I also have a barrel on back order with Midway. It is a regular encore 26" blued version in 22-250 ackley improved. It's been on order since the 3rd week of March. Customer service has told me that they the only information they have is that it is on order. I hope that when TC/Custom Shop finally gets around to filling orders we don't get a bunch of junk, and have to fight with TC/Custom Shop to make it right.